HBO plays Bush Tape.

They are talking about this on Fox on XM right now... Mostly about the basketball player accepting the Nugget's tickets. They mentioned Bush, but then buried it.
 
I posted these pictures of Reggie on the other thread about him. They are of him at the 2005 Heisman ceremony. Not sure how many college athletes can afford two monster diamond earrings.

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I'm not an NCAA infractions lawyer (and don;t care to be), but I will say this: if you want to penalize an entire program (death penalty, bowls inelegibility, whatever) for the actions of individual players, you should probably start with FELONIES (i.e. a crime) and work your way down to accepting Nuggets tickets (i.e. not a crime). Seems to me that public safety should take priority over free pizza.

In short, if the latter calls for program-wide penalties (as opposed to penalizing the individual player or booster in question), then the former should as well.

I'm sure the good citizens of Austin that were robbed at gunpoint in their own homes by some of our finest would much prefer that those kids were out accepting a free meal or a free ride.

Like it or not, turning coaching staffs into private FBI's where they have to wiretap, dumpster dive, and tail every kid that shows up with a new earing 24 hours a day creates real problems under our system of laws. (Indeed, its probably illegal to require players to say how "poor" their families are). These guys don't have subpoena power, so if the kid lies to them and says its a zircon they bought on Ebay, there is not a whole hell of a lot they can do about it.

Againt, punish the hell out of the kid and third parties involved, and even have the NCAA suspend coaches that "failed to monitor", but don't punish the other players unless the coaches or employees of the school were directly involved.
 
If y'all really think OJ Mayo got an extra benefit then I think y'all are just USC-hating. Remember last year when DJ and KD went to that Spurs game last year and had pretty nice seats? No one was saying to punish them. You have to look at each situation case by case. This is not a recruiter or a "friend of the program". It's Carmelo Anthony who routinely gives free tickets to people and has a track record of doing so.
 
Here is my awesome retort about "monitoring the program" and an opportunity to pump Mack. Billy Pittman was suspended 3 games for borrowing a friend's car. That is fact. He didn't lease it. He didn't own it. He wasn't given it. He borrowed it. Mack and co. found out about it and before the NCAA had a chance to rule on BP, the Texas program suspended him 3 games.

Are you telling me that Mack Brown is just that much better at monitoring a program than Pete Carroll? Mack can see Billy borrowing a car but Carroll can't see anything suspicious about a kid who comes in with a ragged out Toyota Tundra and then suddenly starts driving a black Impala with nice rims that was featured in DUBs Magazine?

My favorite part of the report on Real Sports is when they show that Reggie's family wrote in the concrete in front of the $750K house "Griffins 05". That was priceless. I also wish y'all could hear the recordings of Reggie's step dad. They are awesome! "Reggie is gonna give you everything back. Everything you gave Reggie; the car, the house, the money. You're going to get it all back. Don't worry."
 
ESPN responded to an email from me.

Basically they claimed the tape didn't exist and that they'd asked for a copy on numerous occassions.

So I replied the tape was played on HBO. I wonder if they will reply to my reply.
 
I suspect hagy=RB. I wouldn't put it past RB to be trolling all the message boards of D1 teams to try to quiet the threads that talk about what a cheating little punk he is.

Yes, RB is beyond doubt a cheating little punk, and by association, Pete Carroll is, too.
 
RB is a punk cheat.

PC is a punk cheat.

Every single USC player who was on the team with RB and just sat by and watched him get away with his flagrant violation of the rules is punk cheat.

That's right: every single USC player who ever saw RB drive his Impala and wear his diamonds is a punk cheat.

The whole team deserves to be penalized.
 
TexPete,

Let me make it really simple for you, since apparently you are incapable of grasping my point. I'm not saying felonies are against NCAA rules. I'm saying this:

The. Rules. Are. Stupid.

Thats it.

And TXFight, I've heard exactly the same kinds of rumors about high profile players at every school, including UT. They are almost always BS -- no coach would knowingly disregard what people now say should have been so obvious about Bush etc. When you show me some sworn testimony (i.e. the kind of evidence that will likely put Bonds in jail) that Bush was flaunting his goodies in everyone's face in some blatantly obvious way, then fine. Until then you are just peddling rumors and behaving like an adolescent muckraker.

But hey, if it helps your self esteem to rant like that about USC, knock yourself out. Matters not to me.
 
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