A two-year bowl ban and a loss of more than 20 football scholarships are among the sanctions that the NCAA has dealt USC, a source with knowledge of the situation said Wednesday.
The NCAA, the governing body for collegiate sports, informed USC of its decision after a four-year investigation regarding allegations centered on former football player Reggie Bush and former basketball player O.J. Mayo. The NCAA could make its decision public as early as today.
USC officials would not confirm that the school had received the NCAA's report.
USC spokesmen said the university would address the situation when the NCAA makes the report public.
Limited recruiting contacts, probation and forfeiture of victories are also among the penalties regarded as possibly in play.
USC sources, who requested anonymity because they are not authorized to speak about the situation publicly, said they were bracing for the worst. One said the school probably would utilize an appeal process.
Asked if the sanctions were appropriate, a source said, "It depends how you look at it. It is if you're a UCLA fan."
Wait a minute. If they're being punished for both Bush AND Mayo, then why do the sanctions seem to affect only the football program?
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SuperHornet wrote:Wait a minute. If they're being punished for both Bush AND Mayo, then why do the sanctions seem to affect only the football program?
That's just what the article is able to report right now. There will be a press conference in the morning and all of the sanctions will be laid out. It will include sanctions for the basketball team.
And they'll likely be forfeiting the 2004 title.
"The unmasking thing was all created by Devin Nunes"
- Richard Burr, (R-NC)
Good - I've never like USC, and especially now that Lame Kiffin is there. He was already coaching out of a hole with a limited personal skill set, now he'll have this to deal with from a recruiting perspective.
clenz wrote:Is the vacated national title the one that USC claims they won, but they shared with OU and many believe OU would have won if they had played?
And the one where Auburn finished 13-0. Worst fuckup in the history of the BCS.
"The unmasking thing was all created by Devin Nunes"
- Richard Burr, (R-NC)
clenz wrote:Is the vacated national title the one that USC claims they won, but they shared with OU and many believe OU would have won if they had played?
And the one where Auburn finished 13-0. Worst fuckup in the history of the BCS.
That's what I thought but I couldn't remember.
Does Auburn now get USC's share of the national championship? I mean it only seems right.
The BCS will vacate the Orange Bowl triumph, a 55-19 pasting of Oklahoma, a game in which quarterback Matt Leinart threw five touchdown passes.
BCS executive director Bill Hancock issued the statement:
"In accordance with the findings released today by the NCAA, the University of Southern California's 2005 Orange Bowl game victory has been vacated. We take the integrity of NCAA rules seriously. As a procedural matter, the BCS Presidential Oversight Committee (POC) must meet to formally consider vacating USC's championship title and the game records. If the POC takes such action, there would be no BCS champion for the 2004-05 season. The POC will meet shortly to discuss this matter.
"In light of USC's statement that it intends to appeal, we want to make it clear that no action will go into effect until the appeal is heard and decided by the NCAA."
