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NCAA Punishments for Violations Need Change

Chip and Pete

There have recently been reports of both Auburn University and the University of Oregon having major violations with their football teams.  This allows us to revisit the punishment of vacated wins and scholarships being lost for sports programs, due to that being the most likely disciplinary action that will be taken with these schools. Both vacated wins and loss of scholarships  are the most ridiculous punishments possible. Vacating wins doesn’t do anything, but put an asterisk next to a season in the record books. Let’s take the 2005 National Championship Game for example. USC beat the crap out of Oklahoma 55-19. Now, technically no one won that game. The problem is we all remember that game. To say no one won that game is crazy. Vacated wins does nothing except take a trophy out of a case. All the players, coaches, fans and media know who won.

As for loss of scholarship, all this does is hurt a bunch of kids who had nothing to do with any of the violations. It also creates a trickle down effect that affects a few kids at the bottom of the scholarship offers pool, not the kids that have the talent to play at a Oregon or Auburn. It affects kids who probably wouldn’t even have a chance to play at the large school receiving sanctions. Let’s take a look at that USC example again.

USC lost ten scholarships per year for three years for the violations of the 2004-2005 season. That is ten kids that could have played at the top program in the country. Now, they have to go to elsewhere. That takes ten spots from ten other schools at the same level or just a step down from USC, for example: Texas, Oklahoma, Florida State and others.

Those ten spots continue to trickle down and take roster spots for kids who would have ended up at schools like Memphis, UAB, and Central Michigan.  This effect will work its way down to the Montanas and Portland States of the world. Moving through all teams, regardless of division, that can offer a full football scholarship.

There is a finite amount of scholarships that can be offered throughout college football. There are under 7,000 scholarships to the 225 FBS and FCS schools and there are over one million high school football players trying to earn that potential financial aid for education. You take ten scholarships away you aren’t taking them from the Andrew Luck and RGIII’s of the world, players of that caliber will receive a scholarship no matter what. This type of punishment is taking a scholarship from the kid who starred at a 2A high school and was going to go to Portland State. His spot was filled by the falling talent that got bumped off the better team and fell to the next best team.

The NCAA says they are punishing the school, but realistically they are punishing future kids. Even with the bowl bans, they are just taking away opportunity for kids that had nothing to do with the violations. If a kid cheated on a test in his first period class, you wouldn’t take it out on the second period class. You need to punish the one responsible. Make players pay back scholarships. Fine coaches, even if they have already left the school. Make the school pay back money. The schools and coaches are the ones who made the millions off the success of the team, not the student-athletes.

The easiest way to deal with these situations is to fine the school large amounts. Let them play in bowls still, but don’t let them collect the bowl money. Take their cut and spread it out to other schools in their conference or across the country. This doesn’t take away kids’ educations and opportunity to have the same fortunes as other football players. The fine will also take away the pointless vacating wins thing (which by the way, they should vacate losses too). It will also be determined by how much the school benefited financially off those wins. Money is the main reason these violations happen. Attacking the deep pockets of these programs would definitely get the attention of those in charge.

Start taking away the money and change will happen.

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Cougar and Husky Predictions

It is upon us! Its finally football season. College football starts tonight. The NCAA saves us from the NFL’s last NFL preseason game, which we all know is a joke. A lot of people have spent the last month staring at the schedule of their favorite school. Picking and choosing which games they can win and lose. We are no different at No Fair Weather Fans. There is two distinct teams we root for and here are the predictions our favorite team and their rival. Two of us are Cougs and two of us are Dawgs.

Ben Kelley

Washington State Cougars Washington Huskies

WSU at BYU – WSU Cougars win 38-31 SDSU at UW – Huskies win 45-17

EWU at WSU – Cougars win 52-17 UW at LSU – Tigers win 23-17

WSU at UNLV – Cougars win 45-24 Portland St. at UW – Huskies win 56-9

Colorado at WSU – Cougars win 31-21 Stanford at UW – Huskies win 27-21

Oregon at WSU – Ducks win 44-27 UW at Oregon – Ducks win 34-31

WSU at Oregon St. – Cougars win 34-17 USC at UW – Trojans win 38-24

Cal at WSU – Cougars win 24-21 UW at Arizona – Huskies win 35-20

WSU at Stanford – Cardinal win 30-21 Oregon St. at UW – Huskies win 27-14

WSU at Utah – Utes win 27-24 UW at Cal – Huskies win 21-17

UCLA at WSU – Cougars win 35-28 Utah at UW – Huskies win 28-27

WSU at ASU – Cougars win 37-24 UW at Colorado – Huskies win 34-14

UW at WSU – Cougars win 45-42 UW at WSU – Cougars win 45-42

WSU Overall – 9-3 UW Overall – 8-4

Brad Dobbs

Washington State Cougars Washington Huskies

WSU at BYU – WSU 27 BYU – 31 SDSU at UW – SDSU 20 UW 42

EWU at WSU – WSU 42 EWU 10 UW at LSU – UW 24 – LSU 35

WSU at UNLV – WSU 28 – UNLV 10 Portland St. at UW – PSU 10 UW 31

Colorado at WSU – WSU 31 – CU 7 Stanford at UW – SU 21 – UW 24

Oregon at WSU – UO 56 – WSU 21 UW at Oregon – UW 10 – UO 31

WSU at Oregon St. – WSU 20 – OSU 27 USC at UW – USC 28 – UW 24

Cal at WSU – CAL – 30 – WSU 27 UW at Arizona – UW 41 – UA 7

WSU at Stanford – WSU 17 – SU – 35 Oregon St. at UW – OSU 10 – UW 35

WSU at Utah – WSU 41 – UT – 28 UW at Cal – UW 10 – CAL 7

UCLA at WSU – UCLA 28 – WSU 30 Utah at UW – UT 10 – UW 35

WSU at ASU – WSU 24 – ASU – 35 UW at Colorado – UW 61 – CU 10

UW at WSU – UW 49 – WSU 46 3OT UW at WSU – UW 49 – WSU 46 3OT

WSU Overall – 5-7 UW Overall – 9-3

Ryan Johne

Washington State Cougars Washington Huskies

WSU at BYU – 35 – 31 SDSU at UW – 6 – 27

EWU at WSU – 10 – 49 UW at LSU – 15 – 24

WSU at UNLV – 30 – 27 Portland St. at UW – 5 – 35

Colorado at WSU – 33 – 42 Stanford at UW – 24 – 14

Oregon at WSU – 42 – 30 UW at Oregon – 21 – 42

WSU at Oregon St. – 24 – 21 USC at UW – 24 – 17

Cal at WSU – 27 – 20 UW at Arizona – 27-24

WSU at Stanford – 17 – 27 Oregon St. at UW – 14 – 30

WSU at Utah – 30 – 28 (last second Furney FG) UW at Cal – 28- 27

UCLA at WSU – 17 – 24 Utah at UW – 10 – 21

WSU at ASU – 19 – 27 UW at Colorado – 41 – 28

UW at WSU – 30 – 35 UW at WSU – 30 – 35

WSU Overall – 8-4 UW Overall – 7 – 5

Kristina Hloptsidis

Washington State Cougars Washington Huskies

WSU at BYU – 27-31 SDSU at UW – 15-35

EWU at WSU – 17-35 UW at LSU – 29-33

WSU at UNLV – 42-27 Portland St. at UW – 10-45

Colorado at WSU – 21-35 Stanford at UW – 28-21

Oregon at WSU – 55-28 UW at Oregon – 37-42

WSU at Oregon St. – 17-28 USC at UW – 24-27

Cal at WSU – 19-33 UW at Arizona – 17-24

WSU at Stanford – 10-17 Oregon St. at UW – 14-28

WSU at Utah – 37-18 UW at Cal – 21-33

UCLA at WSU – 21-31 Utah at UW – 14-33

WSU at ASU – 24-14 UW at Colorado – 28-17

UW at WSU – 48-45 UW at WSU – 48-45

WSU Overall7-5 UW Overall 7-5

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