Exactly, and ESPN has the money, so they make the rules....the NCAA’s power is wilting with each passing day.
And after the licking they took over the Penn State sanctions and the Miami debacle, they are gun shy.
Sorry but you’re wrong. If ESPN made the rules this rule WOULDN’T exist. Everybody at ESPN has complained about this rule for years, they complained about it all the way through the Ohio situation last year. The NCAA wasn’t gun shy about this exact same rule last year. I think it’s the fact that Daddy Manziel can sue the hell out of them that makes them scared this time. Everybody knows this rule is dumb and couldn’t possibly stand up in court if challenged.
The NCAA is a wilting power, but not because of ESPN. Because the folks their in charge of are sick of having their championships vacated 3 years later.
When I see investigations and punishments like this, it bolsters my confidence in the fact that:
A) PSU Administration (President Erickson, BOT Surma, etc.) WROTE their own sanctions
B) Commissioned freeh to write a report with a pre-determined outcoome
Erickson is going to wind up in a cell next to js. You heard it here first.