The answer is no, and here are the reasons for that answer:mshunter77 wrote:First thing is I think that Saban is 100% correct about these agents and the way they recruit these players. Second I do not for one second doubt that Bama has not bent or broken the rules when it comes to recruiting or giving current players benefit. Know how much of it does Saban know about I have no idea. I think you can say the same thing about every other successful program. It is only going to get worse in the future because right now the NCAA looks like a joke. After the Cam Newton and Miami fiascos and then Manziel only getting half a game after multiple sources said thy paid him, the NCAA looks like a joke. Would the NCAA hammer Bama on this to make a point? I am not sure but it would not surprise me.
(1) Alabama, whether the rest of us want to admit it or not, is the premier program in the history of college football AND it could be argued that they are actually in the middle of their golden years right now (not when Bear was there)...the NCAA is not going to hammer their golden goose...it makes ZERO business sense and the NCAA is a business first;
(2) The current allegations, even if blatantly true, would only mean forfeiting games already played...no scholly loss, not anything else;
(3) Nick Saban - neither the SEC nor the NCAA wants to risk losing Nick Saban again. He is the face of NCAA athletics and they want to keep it that way.
State and UTenn have the most to lose because they could fall under the repeat offender status if I am not mistaken, which could lead to major probation.
As an aside, I predict the NCAA does not exist in its current form within 10 years. It has no power. The "compliance departments" that all school now have are actually like money laundering operations. They don't assure compliance, they assure cheating without getting caught.
I think the SEC schools, the Big 10, Big 12, ACC and Pac 12 will break away and form their own entity that will allow paying of players and essentially turn players into even more of a commodity than they already are at the moment.
