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NCAA can't really take OU's wins away
Fox Sports ^ | 12 July 2007 | Pete Fiutak

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: ncaa; oklahoma; sooners
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1 posted on 07/12/2007 12:36:40 PM PDT by GOP_Raider
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2 posted on 07/12/2007 12:38:36 PM PDT by GOP_Raider (FReepmail me to join the FR Idaho Ping List.)
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To: GOP_Raider

Unless they lose scholarships or television money, I dont see any punishment.


3 posted on 07/12/2007 12:42:17 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: BurbankKarl
They are losing two scholarships for two years according to an article I saw in the paper today.
4 posted on 07/12/2007 12:46:11 PM PDT by Michael.SF. ("The military Mission has long since been accomplished" -- Harry Reid, April 23, 2007)
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To: GOP_Raider
Oooooaklahoma, where the wind comes sweeping down the plain..
5 posted on 07/12/2007 12:46:23 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter ( Who is the Democrat's George Galloway?)
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6 posted on 07/12/2007 12:46:27 PM PDT by hardback
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To: GOP_Raider

“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.


7 posted on 07/12/2007 12:46:30 PM PDT by edcoil (Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
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To: Michael.SF.

That seems pretty insignificant....?


8 posted on 07/12/2007 12:50:24 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: edcoil

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.


9 posted on 07/12/2007 12:52:27 PM PDT by So Cal Rocket
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To: GOP_Raider

I’m no OK fan (Go Gators!) but they won what they won and that’s that.........


10 posted on 07/12/2007 12:54:17 PM PDT by Red Badger (No wonder Mexico is so filthy. Everybody who does cleaning jobs is HERE!.......)
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To: GOP_Raider

I just gotta a call from a guy named Nicky T’reefingers in Vegas about a bookkeeping errora and collecting an old debt . . .


11 posted on 07/12/2007 12:56:06 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith (There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don't.)
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To: BurbankKarl
plus make ‘em give back any funds rec’d from playing in the bowl game.
12 posted on 07/12/2007 1:03:07 PM PDT by stylin19a (Since bad golf shots come in groups of 3, a 4th bad shot is the start of the next group of 3)
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LOL


13 posted on 07/12/2007 1:05:38 PM PDT by Quick Shot
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To: GOP_Raider

“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)


14 posted on 07/12/2007 1:07:09 PM PDT by wolfcreek (2 bad Tyranny, Treachery and Treason never take a vacation...)
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To: GOP_Raider

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.


15 posted on 07/12/2007 1:08:00 PM PDT by lesko
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To: Red Badger
I’m no OK fan (Go Gators!) but they won what they won and that’s that.........

YES!! (the Gator part mostly)

16 posted on 07/12/2007 1:10:22 PM PDT by subterfuge (Today, Tolerance =greatest virtue;Hypocrisy=worst character defect; Discrimination =worst atrocity)
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To: GOP_Raider

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.


17 posted on 07/12/2007 1:20:32 PM PDT by SengirV
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To: lesko

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


18 posted on 07/12/2007 1:22:29 PM PDT by hardback
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To: edcoil
Out here on the left coast the papers are reporting that Bush not George, may have taken upwards of $300,000 dollars in illegal gain.

Of course if this had been Notre Dame or USC nothing would have ever been done, nothing.

Go Sooners.................

19 posted on 07/12/2007 1:27:25 PM PDT by OKIEDOC (Kalifornia, a red state wannabe. I don't take Ex Lax I just read the New York Times.)
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To: GOP_Raider

They can forevermore report in their Media Guides that they won the games “on the field”. See Bama 1993.


20 posted on 07/12/2007 1:34:15 PM PDT by OrangeDaisy
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