OSU part 2

[TheSultan]

Here is an article written by a friend of mine. I think he is spot on.

http://www.midwestsportsfans.com/201...a-clean-sport/

"Why? Why does the NCAA go through this ridiculous charade of having rules which can’t be violated, then look for any possible reason not to put any real teeth in its enforcement? It’s simple. We might claim we want clean football, but more than that, we want Alabama football. We want to see the best taking on the best. We want to claim bragging rights over the person in the next driveway or the next cubicle.

We wanted a playoff, but we also wanted the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl. The NCAA is more than happy to give us both. We want rules, but we want them to be enforced loosely and capriciously because more than we want to feel good about college football, we want to watch it."

[Goose85]

The NCAA has no control over post season football and gets no money from bowls / the playoff, yet the NCAA spends more money on overseeing football than any other sport.

One issues for the NCAA is for the most part paying players under the table or a teacher fixing a grade is not against the law, it is against the rules schools want the NCAA to enforce, but in some cases not really enforce too much or we might break away from the NCAA.

We all know cheating went on at Duke, but because there is no subpena powers, if those involved won't talk and the NCAA doesn't have someone providing them with the hard evidence, they can't do anything.

The NCAA also doesn't seem to be consistent. People didn't talk at Duke, nothing we can do. People won't talk at Miami, we are assuming guilt.
Bush's mom got an agent to pay for her rent and Bush received some benefits - vacate national championship and give back the heisman.
Yahoo's article indicates benefits were given at Alabama, will they not be forced to give up their national championship?
Seems the left tackle's mom had her rent paid for as well.

The perception is the NCAA doesn't want to come down on certain schools because they are meal tickets. Is the perception here reality?