NCAA Football '05

[Alex]

I expect the palyers will be allowed to transfer without penalty and I'm sure any USC scholarship player will be able to find a new home if he wants one.

I agree it isn't particularly fair to punish the current students (though in all likelihood we could consider this pre-payment for the punishment that the misdeeds of this administration will bring down on future students) but it is difficult to imagine many other effective forms of punishment since significant fines would be politically impossible and there's no guarantee that the individuals involved would still be around by the time punishment can be issued (though it would be good if the people involved were banned from future involvement in NCAA sanctioned athletics; if the crime is bad --not saying it is in this case, not familiar enough--why should Pete Carroll be allowed to fall back into college football when he flames out of the NFL?).

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by Alex

I expect the palyers will be allowed to transfer without penalty and I'm sure any USC scholarship player will be able to find a new home if he wants one.

If all the kids on the team were NFL bound it might not matter that much what school they attend, but statistically less than 3% of them will. Sports shenanigans aside, USC is a damn fine school with world class programs in several disciplines. To deny 30 worthy students a scholarship and thus potentially a chance to attend USC over this is criminal.