Alabama vacating football wins?

For some reason, I find this all amusing.

Everyone bitches that the players get a free ride in class and then they get busted for textbooks. Only at Alabama.

 

I'm going to say this - there is no more meaningless penalty than "vacating wins".

Seriously, who gives a shit about that?

You think Michigan fans who got to go to two final fours and party all weekend and see their team play on the biggest stage two years in a row care? Really?

You think the teams that lost on the opportunity to go to the Final Four that Michigan beat, give a rat's ass now?

What is done is done.

I am all for punishing cheaters, but for God's sakes, make the punishments actually mean something.


Instead of "vacating wins", how about take away five scholarships a year from Alabama over the next four years.

You think that would send a much stronger message than what is happening now?

And if the black coaches association protests and says you are taking away opportunities from poor kids -- then take it one step further -- they still have to play for 20 scholarships for regular students who are of need.

 

Bobby Bowden, but that's about it.

 

Yes, but even that -- he wasn't going to win the wins title with or without them - to me, it would have been far more meaningful had they hammered the program with scholarship sanctions for like four years so it really hurt

 

I think they should have gotten six or eight years of scholly sanctions. Oh, and no TV. Oh, and no bowl, too.

 

Maybe then Tennessee could beat them

 

Destiny does take strange twists and turns sometimes.

 

At least those twists and turns were on the road to a national championship.