Saw this on my news feed:
https://sports.yahoo.com/amphtml/lsu-football-vacates-all-wins-from-2012...
This might be the only instance in recent history that a coach actually gets a meaningful punishment. Due to a player's parents being given BS jobs with a local organization, LSU played 3 years with an ineligible player and thus vacated all wins from 2012-2015. Might have only been caught because the director of the organization was caught misusing $800k of organizational funds.
With the 37 wins removed, Les drops below the 0.600 winning percentage required to be eligible for the HOF.
Also OBJ is banned from LSU facilities for two years for handing out cash to players on national TV after LSU won the Natty.
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Any word on when North Carolina will need to start vacating wins?
Yeah, I didn't think so either.
lmao the money is too dam high
Honestly, I think this is bulshit. Especially this piece:
If people want to throw cash at college students, let 'em.
They do that at Southern XXXPosure every night, and no one cares. You do it once on national television at a bowl game and everyone loses their minds!
Based on Janet Jackson's half time show, if you did what they do at Southern Xxxposure on tv people lose their mind
This is actually kinda hilarious -- especially because he still would have met the threshold for HoF eligibility had he not coached Kansas at all.
obligatory "let coordinators be eligible for cfb hof" comment too -- justice for bud!!!!
I agree and thought the same thing, that stint at Kansas burned his legacy more than he knew at the time
Or did it really seal his legacy of who he was, a meh coach who bought wins at LSU?
More proof that the SEC motto is "If you ain't cheatin' you ain't tryin'"
SEC: Somewhat Ethical Conference
Somewhat?
I mean their not as bad as the SWAC with teams like Texas, A&M and Arkansas... oh
They have Vanderbilt in the conference.
Maybe Selective Ethical Conference?
The biggest thing here, not that I am bothered by it, is Les Miles ineligibility from the CFB HOF. That's the only thing of any meaningful consequence.
The OBJ facility ban is ridiculous, but I'm sure he will go on living his life just fine.
The vacated wins matter for all-time records and what not but most people don't acknowledge those changes. Like nobody know thinks they lost all those games. Nobody pretends Reggie Bush didn't win the Heisman.
I checked the all time wins list and Auburn is 40 wins behind LSU, so this actually will not move them out of their spot and Auburn doesn't look like it will gain ground on them any time soon.
In general, I think vacating wins is stupid. It also seems stupid to keep counting the losses from that same timeframe. And if they took off the losses from that span, Miles would jump back up to 64%. (If I did my math right.)
That's the double talk...take away wins but you "keep" the losses. Because if you could buy wins, you shoulda won them too.
The losses should count double in that case.