The Lions' Pride

It seemed like a lot of people looked the other way on this and decided to be enablers.

"The new information is more evidence that student athletes, particularly football players, were being steered to classes that university officials now say are evidence of academic fraud because there was little or no instruction. An internal review found 54 such classes ...."

I say death penalty, since that punishment is thrown around so loosely these days.

no...this doesn't happen all over the place lol made- up classes with no instruction consisting of only football players as students?? yeah, don't think your finding that anywhere else.

yes...usually putting players in classes such as basket-weaving or something of that sort....but those classes also have other students enrolled in them as well and actually have teachers...not this crap.

Have to wonder if this will affect recruiting at all...

But thats USC; USC will always recruit well with a coach there putting in te effort because its USC.

UNC is no USC.

I really like switzer and if he wants to visit again I hope BOB would allow it and make room

I agree that the stature of the 2 programs don't compare. But my point is that it seems that there has been zero negative effect on USC with recruits due to the issues and sanctions. I just find that hard to believe but it's true. It surprises me that kids/parents don't look at what happened and say "I don't want my kid to be part of that", even if that group of kids/parents are a minority of the recruiting pool. One would think that if hypothetically 30% of the recruit pool decided that they didn't want to be part of a program in trouble that the total committed class would have at least a small drop off.

Part of what? The AD is gone. The coach is gone. They lost guys on the depth chart because of it and the sanctons are almost up. Not to mention it is USC and these kids grew up in their dynasty and many of their parents remember the USC of old. The kids no will never really see those sanctions, so it doesn't matter.

All valid points, wholesale change in the program for leadership. The USC history in college football is a storied history. But no accounting for the stigma of what the program brought upon itself? I guess not. To me this is a good example of the memory of a gnat our general public has. They cheated to build that dynasty and all folks seem to remember are the wins. To me that is sad.

Didn't this come out like 3 weeks ago?

And failed epically at doing so.

Pretty funny to me, actually. Most schools, even PSU, have majors or classes that are known to be easier than others, and some students are encouraged to enroll in those. However making a class solely for football players to achieve credits, not requiring any time whatsoever other than the two weeks before the end of the semester, is a joke. Wow. I mean, how stupid can you be?