What penalty could the NCAA actually levy on Kiffin?

[donovan]

Oh BS.

The students aren't being punished, nor the "scholar athletes" to any great extent. So they may not play in as good of a bowl? How hurt, really, are the athletes at USC?

If you want punishment, take the stance of credentialing agencies when a school loses its accreditation. Your education and diploma becomes seriously devalued and sometimes becomes worthless for your discipline...now, that is punishment.

They absolutely are punished. The enrolled in the school with expectations. Contractual expectations. When you say they are not hurt it is like a friend smashing their thumb and saying ouch and you saying, "That didn't hurt." Moral Superiors do not get to decide for anyone else what hurts and what does not hurt. We have a government that is full of those morally superior to those they govern, so why not the NCAA? When coaches and schools aberrant behavior caused penalties that affect status in bowls and conferences, scholarships, etc, it affects athletes that had no part in the violations. Maybe USC kids did get to transfer without penalty. Maybe the NCAA is just fine. Maybe nothing is broken. And then again, maybe not.

[Spence]

If the kids were allowed to tranfer without penalty - even inside their conference - which is a big consideration, then the school would really have to think twice before breaking the rules. It would really double their penalty - which is a good thing, the way I see it.

[Dossenator]

If I remember correctly from the USC fiasco....in coming freshman were able to transfer without school approval and without having to sit out a year, sophomores could not transfer at all, and juniors could transfer if the school approved it and they too would not have to sit out a year.

[billybud]

Yep...stars like Henderson fled (he played in Miami last year)...USC lost a few to other schools, including their starting linebacker.