Usc ....

Looks like the NCAA has finally handed down the sanctions on USC. 2 year bowl ban, reduction of 20 scholarships, and vacate 14 wins from 2004 season. This has been the rumor for quite sometime but I am surprised they actually did it.

My heart bleeds buttermilk for them.

All this came from Reggie Bush correct, and by Heisman standards of eligibility he should have to forfeit that trophy and hand it over to Vince Young.

Welcome back Lane.

The club that handles the Heisman has already said that if the NCAA found issues with Bush's eligibility that they will review his standing and possibly remove him from the club.

But Vince won't be getting anything, it'll just be vacated.

Don't really care if it goes to anybody or not, just Vince finished second in the voting that year. I think it's a BS honor anymore anyway.

I hope this is only the beginning

Baylor
Mississippi State
Kentucky
Kansas
UConn
Memphis

only a few of the bigger fish to fry

That's the second time I've seen you mention Stansbury or Mississippi State. What's the story there? This can't all be from an NIT win over VT. ;)

haha no...I'm actually blanking on any NIT win Miss St had over VT though (not sayin it didn't happen, just that I'm blanking on when it happened)

none of those schools are on this list because of anything having to do with VT....as a matter of fact VT doesn't regularly recruit the same kids as those schools...the only one I can think of is Tyshawn Taylor who was a long-time VT lean and VT slow played him because of Nigel Munson and Malcolm Delaney...Taylor chose Marquette and VT backed off altogether...Crean left Marquette for IU, Taylor opened it back up and ulitmately chose Kansas...so even that situation wasn't a head-to-head battle

wrt Mississippi State...it starts with Jamont Gordon (I'm surprised you don't remember that) he was a HUGE Tennessee lean...to the point where he told any and every player he played with on the AAU circuit that he was headed to UT and that they should join him...Mississippi State was never a serious option...then in a 2-week span Stansbury came in and "recruited" him heavily and got him to sign with Miss State...the stories I've heard with the perks he was offered range from girls to cars to money, but every person I've talked to (including someone heavily involved with his AAU team, the Tennessee Travelers) has said he was definitely bought by Stansbury

but it doesn't stop there...Renardo Sidney...huge recruit, once committed to Tim Floyd at USC (that should tell you all you need to know there)...there is a reason the NCAA held him out all last year and will hold him out as long as they legally can...they're building a case against MSU and hopefully they uncover the Jamont Gordon situation as well

neither Jamont Gordon nor Renardo Sidney had anything to do with VT..and for good reason

I know the Gordon deal. I'd never heard anything underhanded had happened with it though. I'd also heard the guy who runs the Rivals MSU site talking about Sidney on Rivals Radio a few weeks ago. He was basically saying that the NCAA ruled him eligible around tourney time last year but he was so fat and out of shape that they just let him sit. He said the dude was way over 300 lbs.

Everything I've ever heard on Stansbury has always been positive. Interviews with other coaches, media, ect, have always been positive. Of course it could be something different off record.