Alabama vacating football wins?

I am here to help...

("All he's done for this Yoo-niversity? All the money he's raised? He got us a winnin' coa-ech? People are waiting in line to buy tockets to a stadium that's expanding again? And people want to get rid of him over some books?")

 

I wonder what the NCAA is doing to the other Bama sports that had athletes involved in this. From what I understand football players weren't the biggest offenders.

 

But all the Bammers care about is what happens to football. Track? Women's soccer? They don't exist. Baseball will be a little harder to swallow, but a blip on the ray-dar.

 

I'm confused.
How is giving books to Alabama football players an added benefit? They can't read them anyway.

 

Spinted, there's no telling the illicit Crayola swag being tossed around by agent-runners at the Capstone to go with those illegal books.

RB

 

Reminds me of the classic Spurrier joke about the coloring books in Auburn's library.

 

Congrats to the women's rowing and two cross country teams! Here's to playing by the rules, whomever you are!

 

The NCAA doesn't mess with rowers. They're badasses.

 

They're scared of big coxswains.

 

So, if the crime is that athletes were buying books for non-athletes with scholarship money, then what would prevent the athletes from buying the books for themselves and 'loaning' them to other students?

Seems like just another pain-in-the-ass NCAA rule.

 

The way the system works (or is supposed to work) is that the athlete gets a voucher credit at the campus bookstore. No money changes hands, but they have to return the books at the end of the semester. What was happening at Alabama was that athletes were getting books for classes they weren't in and giving them out to their friends. (That is the official version. Supposedly none of the athletes got any money for doing this, but it isn't hard to see Johnny Linebacker pocketing $50 from Billy Freshman to get him a $100 book.) Now they cross-check purchases against the athlete's schedule to make sure everything matches up.

I would like to add that linking the NCAA to the college textbook industry is a match made in money-grubbing pricks heaven.

 

Anyone in Alabama could've told these players that all that fancy book learnin' was trouble. But did they listen? Nooooo....