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SB Nation's USC blog, Conquest Chronicles, has some understandable grousing to do following the NCAA's denial of the university's COI appeal, but may want to hold off before comparing themselves unfavorably to Ohio State just yet: If this is what's to become of USC for one ineligible player, what's going to happen to the Buckeyes for fielding a handful of them for an entire season?
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harrumph
Ordinarily, Ms Anderson, I’d be inclined to agree with you and fire up the schadenfreude sedan, but I really doubt that the NCAA is going to open the trapdoor beneath tOSU’s feet. The emphasis they’ve placed on permissible discontinuities in decisions may have been publicized to offset people’s natural tendency to reason by analogy about the sanctions against SC, but it also gives them room to do less to other universities whose apparent compliance failures seem worse.
In the meantime, I intend to buckle up for ~6 years of the opposition settling scores – in the points sense, not in the mafia sense – and keep an eye out for cheap flights to LA to use seats vacated by the more bangwagonesque members of the alumni and fan base. Silver linings etc.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
by DC Trojan on May 26, 2011 3:37 PM EDT reply actions
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