Wednesday, January 9, 2013
When will the SEC get caught?
It seems there is one constant among great college football teams, eventually they all get caught for breaking some NCAA regulation. Oregon, USC, Ohio State, Miami, the list goes on. However, teams from one conference, the SEC, are strangely absent from that list. Teams from the SEC have dominated the AP poll for a decade and yet none of them have had major violations. They have won seven straight national championships, but nobody ever gets caught breaking any rules. You would think one of their coaches would slip up and get caught paying family members, handing out passing grades or at the very least asking their "hostesses" to cross a line, but no, somehow they stay clean. Sure, there are whispers in the media about how the SEC remains dominate but no proof. The NCAA hasnt ever been about to hang anything on them. How they manage to continue their dominance remains a mystery or if you believe it superior coaching and recruiting, but it sure seems like the other boot has got to drop at some point.
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Part of that has to do with the fact that the NCAA doesn't really want to catch good programs doing big things. Catching USC for the whole Reggie Bush thing was terrible for the NCAA, as it made the sport look worse and one of the premier teams perform worse. If they had their way, the NCAA would stick to nothing but ticky-tack violations, so as to allow elite programs to remain elite. This is a big reason why they just changed the rules so that coaches can now text and call recruits an unlimited number of times.
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