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Miami and how it could affect USF
by Allen W on Aug 17, 2011 3:16 PM EDT
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PrintED NOTE: Wanted to put this on the front page. This is a great use of the FanPost feature. Nice work Allen.
The penalties that Miami will face are more than likely to be devastating. This scandal involves over 70 players, multiple coaches and staff members. This is much, much worse than USC or OSU, this is the biggest NCAA investigation in years. Miami is more than likely to lose a lot of scholarships, and bowl play for at least a few years. Well, how would this affect USF football program?
via www.cfnews13.com
FSU and UF will not see any major effects because of the NCAA investigation, as Miami has not been able to keep up with the recruiting of UF and FSU for the last few years, and that is definitely going to be the case for quite a while. Miami has mainly been recruiting players that USF has also been recruiting. USF should be able to capitalize on their victory against Miami last year, plus the addition of Miami getting into one of the biggest NCAA scandals in recent history. If USF can keep up the recent success with recruiting and football wins, the Miami region should be a lot more wide open for recruiting.
If I was Coach Holtz, I would be targeting all the players committed to UM that he previously wanted to sign with USF, starting now. Like previously stated, FSU and UF can pretty much hand pick what players they want from the Miami region. They for the most part already have the players they want from Miami. That leaves USF/UCF/FIU/FAU as instate schools looking to take UM's recruits. And while FAU/FIU could poach a few recruits, the main instate battle will be between USF and UCF. With USF having UM on the schedule and being in a BCS conference, USF has a slight advantage. This could be the catalyst that boosts USF into the "Big Three", at least for the short term. If USF uses the recruiting advantage and increases their wins, maybe win a few Big East championships, they could prove to be too big for UM to surpass once UM has recovered from probation. USF needs to build a winning tradition and increase recruiting in Miami to be a major player in Florida and now with Miami down for possibly long term, USF has a huge opportunity to just that.
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First off don't apologize.
Bud over at Tomahawk Nation was pretty much inline with your thoughts recruiting wise with the possible sanctions.
This is the chance USF needed to move up the pecking order in the state. Now Skip just needs to take advantage.
Thanks for posting.
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The program positioned to best benefit from hard Miami sanctions is USF without question.
After the USC sanctions, Juniors and Seniors were allowed to transfer to other programs with none of the transfer restrictions.
Given this is far more serious than the USC case, I can imagine we could see something like a four year bowl ban and major scholarship loses. They may allow RS-Freshman to Seniors to transfer penalty free. We could be poised to cherry pick players we recruited hard and didn’t quite get.
This could also be huge for future recruiting. With only two realistic powers ahead of us in state, USF will be poised to pull in a lot of talent from the state.
I really would have never wished this type of scandal on any program, but since it’s happening I’m excited about the potential benefits to USF.
Go Bulls!
I think it's a little premature to celebrate.
It’s only a matter of time before SMU – I mean, UM – is back on top of college football. Oops.
Not the way I would have wanted it to go down, but we did beat them last year and can capitalize on this whole messy business for recruiting purposes.
Try to remember SMU was a big program back in the day...
it still hasn’t recovered from the death penalty. In some way, it helped kill off the Southwest Conference (which merged into the Big 12, and now that’s threatening to fall apart).
If UM does get hit with the death penalty (it’s possible, this scandal is shaping up to be on the same scale as SMU’s), it will have serious repercussions. The ACC will lose one of its major draws and be forced to find a replacement school… or else fall apart (especially with the SEC looking to balance Texas A&M with say FSU, Georgia Tech or Virginia Tech). The domino effect goes from there.
The seriousness of this scandal – considering the very likely possibility that the rules compliance people willfully ignored the ongoing scandal – may well affect the NCAA itself… as well it should. We’ve had scandal after scandal after scandal, and the NCAA and its rules system simply can’t keep up. Serious reform – maybe even government intervention – has be done.
Time to shamelessly plug my book and short story!
It will also work in USF's favor that UCF is now under NCAA investigations
for both football and basketball.
Blood in the water, boys. Now is the time to strike.
In the immortal words of Kevin Nealon:
“It’s a business, not a charity. I mean, maybe one day UNICEF will get into the [college football] business, but until then, we’re the guys to come see.”
Stole this from Andrew Sharp's article over at SB Nation.
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We all must buy these t-shirts. Because that’s how the U do!
for all this talk about blood in the water...
…I’m still a little worried about our school. I hope to God we’re not doing anything stupid.
Time to shamelessly plug my book and short story!
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