Posted on 07/12/2007 12:36:37 PM PDT by GOP_Raider
You can't put the genie back in the bottle.
So according to the NCAA, Oklahoma didn't win any games in 2005 because of the mortal sins of former quarterback Rhett Bomar, who (gasp!) took a few dollars for basically being the Oklahoma quarterback, and lineman J.D. Quinn who (oh heavens!) also got some coin for a no-show gig at a car dealership.
The NCAA has you brainwashed in thinking that what these guys did was morally wrong in some way, but that's a discussion for another time. The NCAA forced OU to forfeit all eight of its wins from 2005, and now the can of worms is open wide as far as what should come next. As you read this, the words "Reggie" and "Bush" are probably all over LSU and Oklahoma message boards.
It's all silly. I don't care that the wins don't technically count. You don't care that the wins don't technically count. Anyone with a brain doesn't care that the wins don't technically count. Those games happened, and that can't be changed.
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Unless they lose scholarships or television money, I dont see any punishment.
“ho (gasp!) took a few dollars for basically being the Oklahoma quarterback, and lineman J.D. Quinn who (oh heavens!) also got some coin for a no-show gig at a car dealership.”
Deems da rules.
What will be interesting is how this compares to USC and the Reggie Bush problems and how they will rule on that.
That seems pretty insignificant....?
The biggest difference between the OU problem and the Reggie Bush problem is that the people involved in the OU problem were trying to incentivize the players to stay at OU. So OU received a benefit.
For Reggie Bush, the people involved were trying to incentivize the player to leave school and go pro (and sign an agency agreement with the person providing the benefit). So USC had no interest in the transaction.
I’m no OK fan (Go Gators!) but they won what they won and that’s that.........
I just gotta a call from a guy named Nicky T’reefingers in Vegas about a bookkeeping errora and collecting an old debt . . .
LOL
“Rhett Bomar, who (gasp!) took a few dollars”
Working about 5 hours a week for two semesters = $15,000
Do the math. Seems that’s what got him busted (IRS)
Will the teams that beat Oklahoma in 2005 lose their wins now? All statistics for all players for every team they played will now have to be disregarded.
YES!! (the Gator part mostly)
What a whiny little runt. The rules are supposed to apply to everyone. Hopefully they will catch up to Reggie Bush eventually and USC’s national championship will be taken away. But until then, this author of this trip needs to suck back the tears and get over his OU’s winless season.
All of the games that OU won are vacated. I’m guessing the losses for the other teams don’t count but they don’t get the win either
Of course if this had been Notre Dame or USC nothing would have ever been done, nothing.
Go Sooners.................
They can forevermore report in their Media Guides that they won the games “on the field”. See Bama 1993.
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