If you Cheat in the NCAA

If you are going to cheat in the NCAA it appears that you should cheat BIG and not with little baby steps.  After watching the Cheater Bowl between the two stand up schools University of Miami and The Ohio State University.  I can clearly see that it is much worse to trade some gear for tattoos than it is to take money from a booster for just about anything.  And when I say just about anything I mean use your imagination and that is how money was being passed out at the “U”.    I think this is more a case that Miami was not punished as much as they should have been than Ohio State was punished too hard.

Trading items and lying about it cost Ohio State its coach and its best player.  Taking all that money from a booster having him on the field clearly knowing that he was paying his way in and throwing money at the school cost Miami… One game.  One game and they are back at full power to take on a crippled Ohio State team.

People were calling for the dreaded “Death Penalty” for Miami.  The punishment was no where close to that.  It looks more like Ohio State was dealt the “Death Penalty”.    It really seems to me that the NCAA is a very petty and arbitrary governing body.  The punishments they deal out usually make no sense at all and end up hurting the wrong people.  A good example of that would be that Boise State has been given a sever punishment of losing three scholarships a year for the next three years for something as simple as letting recruits sleep on the couch of current player during summer work outs.  Yes you read that right.  No payments.  No tattoos  no cars no strippers no hookers nothing at all except letting them sleep on your couch.

Yes I guess that makes sense to me.