USC is facing sanctions, maybe Seantrel stays home

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USC is no longer a certain destination because it is facing sanctions for NCAA violations.

Seantrel stay home and make your family, friends and state proud.
 



More and more USC isn't looking so good. If your betting against the Gophers tOSU isn't such a bad pick.
 

Not true. A poster on this board told me: "Y'all fools bee trippin, Sentrel's gonna be's a Trojun"
 


USC admitted they committed violations with OJ Mayo, but also Reggie Bush is being investigated by the NCAA and this could impact the football team.
 

GopherFish said:
USC admitted they committed violations with OJ Mayo, but also Reggie Bush is being investigated by the NCAA and this could impact the football team.
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The NCAA won't touch USC Football. The investigation will wrap up and maybe a small reduction in schollys or similar slap on the wrist.
 

GopherFish said:
USC admitted they committed violations with OJ Mayo, but also Reggie Bush is being investigated by the NCAA and this could impact the football team.
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The football investigation has been going on for years. It has also been stalled for nearly as long. This 2007 College Football Mailbag outlines the issues well. BTW, that's not a typo. This is a Mandel Mailbag from 2 seasons ago. That's how dead in the water the potential sanctions are.

To quickly summarize Mandel's arguments for those who don't want to click...The primary source of evidence against Reggie was Michael Michaels. He and Reggie settled out of court. Part of that settlement is that Michaels CAN'T TALK to NCAA investigators. Since the NCAA has no subpena powers, there is no way for them to get evidence. Reggie won't talk. The people who know the dirt won't talk. All the NCAA has is the original Yahoo Sports story. And they aren't going to drop the hammer (or even a wrist slap at this point) on USC Football without evidence. Evidence that isn't going to turn up without some strange twist of fate.
 

I had read somewhere else that the group Michaels is/was involved with was suing Bush and his family for restitution, and that Bush was going to have to testify. His legal representatives tried to have his testimony heard privately, to protect him from incrimination, and the judge denied the request.

If that's true, he's going to have to testify in open court, tell the truth and implicate himself and USC, or face perjury charges.
 



There is also some issues with Joe McKnight and the idea that there is quite a bit more going on at USC. I know the prevailing opinion in LA is that USC threw their basketball team under the bus to save their football team (like tOSU did with the Clarett thing). I don't know if that has any legs, but the thought is out there.
 



USC Is Squeaky Clean...

http://www.fanblogs.com/usc/006320.php
January 1, 2006
USC is told of possible recruiting violations
Reporters from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and CBS Sportsline have told the USC football team has of potential recruiting violations stemming from visits by USC recruits to Papadakis Taverna, a Greek restaurant in San Pedro, Calif., owned by former USC linebacker John Papadakis.

The infractions are two-fold, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, in that --during visits to his restaurant-- Papadakis gives lengthy, impassioned speeches to the tables of recruits about USC football. As a former player, Papadakis is considered "a 'representative of athletics interests' by the NCAA and is prohibited from speaking to recruits about the Trojans."

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=ys-bushprobe

An eight-month Yahoo! Sports investigation has revealed that Heisman Trophy-winning running back Reggie Bush and his family appear to have accepted financial benefits worth more than $100,000 from marketing agents while Bush was playing at the University of Southern California.

http://articles.latimes.com/2009/jul/30/local/me-usc30

July 30, 2009|Paul Pringle
USC football Coach Pete Carroll employed a former NFL tactician last season to help with the team's punting and kicking game, an arrangement that may have violated NCAA rules that prohibit consultants from coaching, The Times has learned.

Carroll's action could widen a continuing investigation by the NCAA, the governing body of major college sports, which has been looking at USC football for more than three years and the school's basketball program for the last year. The probe has been examining specific allegations of improper payments to two players as well as the broader question of whether USC has lost "institutional control" of its athletics department.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/college/usc/la-sp-joe-mcknight-usc19-2009dec19,0,2881407.story

Joe McKnight, star tailback of USC's football team, has been driving a sport utility vehicle owned by a Santa Monica businessman, an arrangement the school is investigating and which may be in violation of NCAA rules.

NO PATTERN HERE, THOUGH...
 



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