BCS leagues expanding - yeah?

Then Woody Hayes repaid their kindness by framing them with the 1975 NCAA probation, a nuclear bomb which flattened the Sparty program for a decade.

 

Denny Stolz was the coach then
His recruiting philosophy was to tell his assistants not to tell him what they were doing
Didn’t work, but Darryl Rogers won a Big Ten title (no bowl game) with Stolz’s players before he bailed with AD Joe Kearney to Arizona State

 

The violations Sparty got hammered for included serving Big Macs to players on campus visits and handing out t-shirts.
Of course some kids were driving around in rent free Oldsmobiles from local dealers but that stuff was utterly ubiquitous then as it is now.

In 1976 when the NCAA probation came down the Sparty student newspaper did a complete series listing the violations against MSU item by item and providing evidence that Ohio State had committed precisely the same infractions down to the last charge. The NCAA said no investigation was warranted because Woody Hayes had an "impeccable reputation" and any evidence against him was "hearsay produced by amateur student journalists."

 

Mike White, the Illinois coach, said of the NCAA: “If you buy one kid one car, that’s one violation. If you buy four kids four burgers, that’s four violations.”

 

Sparty does have a long hallowed history of NCAA violations: they were actually one of the first schools hammered for slush fund violations in the 1950s when they got good literally instantly after WWII.
I believe they've been on official NCAA probation at least once in every decade back to and including the 1950s.

 

Why am I reminded of the Tom & Jerry cartoon where he eventually drives himself into bankruptcy (and implied suicide) trying to keep up impressions to win back a girlfriend who ran off with a richer cat?

USF ‘going to’ build on-campus football stadium, board of trustees chair says

 

I'm getting some message board chatter about the Belt trying to raid Marshall and Southern Miss from C-USA. Supposedly the Sun Belt commish was seen in Huntington late last week.

If the Belt and AAC both raid C-USA what's left is gonna be pretty bedraggled.

 

Sun Belt needs to change its name.

MEGA 12 (or whatever the hell number they have) would probably do nicely.

 

When I was an SID in the Sun Belt, the conference stretched from Denver to Miami. That's a big-ass belt.

 

Hey, I've been doing Zumba for a week.

 

https://www.deseret.com/platform/am...t-conference-in-exit-fees-if-it-leaves-big-12

Looks like BYU will only have to pay $500,000 to leave the West Coast Conference in 12-24 months or $1 million if they choose to leave before 12 months.

 

I don't think Marshall would go to the Belt, but Southern Miss might. I don't think they have a chance at moving to the AAC. If they stay in C-USA after the AAC raids it (and potentially the Belt as well) they're going to be stuck with the leftovers.

C-USA's President has been invisible through all this. Judy's useless.