The Back Alley Archives

NCAA has always been completely arbitrary and inconsistent in how they punish players and schools.

What do you think, Ricky Williams?

“You know once you win the Heisman Trophy, there's going to be more attention on you,” the former University of Texas star said to KEYE TV. “You are probably not going to be able to get away with all the stuff you got away with before. To the media I would say, if the media did their research on who this kid was, nobody would be surprised.”

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootbal ... ps-manziel

And the NCAA shows that not only can the expedite an investigation, they can also bring the hammer. Manziel suspended for the first half of the game against Rice.

Remind me again why Shariff Floyd was suspended for four games?

Half a game? WTF? If he did it then he's ineligible. If he didn't do it, then he can play. What's this half a game bullshit?

The gist of it seems to be that Manziel admitted that he signed thousands and thousands of pieces of memorabilia, but claimed he had absolutely no idea anybody would try to sell all those items for money. He denied to the NCAA that he took money and that was the only evidence that had to go on. So his violation is that he didn't do enough to prevent others from making money off of his likeness.

Good thing he set up that corporation so that he can sue the people making money off of his signed memorabilia through his corporation and get some money back. Situations a joke.

And here's the screenshot of Texas A&M's website announcement of the suspension of Manziel. Yes, this is for real.



h/t CBS Sports: https://twitter.com/WillBrinson/status/ ... 16/photo/1