OKLAHOMA CITY -- The NCAA announces the Oklahoma football program must forfeit all wins from the 2005 season and will lose scholarships as a result of players being paid for work they had not performed. Go to KHOU.com for more details. Stay with http://www.khou.com/ and 11 News for complete coverage. If you received this newsletter from a friend, go to http://www.khou.com/newsletters to subscribe. HAHAHAHA
Rhett Bomar was one of two players paid for work they did not do. The penalties, announced Wednesday by the NCAA, stem from a case involving two players, including the Sooners’ starting quarterback, who were kicked off the team for being paid for work they had not performed at a Norman car dealership. The Sooners went 8-4 and beat Oregon in the Holiday Bowl to end the 2005 season. Records from that season involving quarterback Rhett Bomar and offensive lineman J.D. Quinn must be vacated, the NCAA said, and coach Bob Stoops’ career record will be amended to reflect the forfeitures, dropping it from 86-19 in eight seasons to 78-27. Oklahoma also will have two years of probation added to an earlier penalty, extending the Sooners’ probation to May 23, 2010. Those sanctions are in addition to those already self-imposed by Oklahoma, which has banned athletes from working at the car dealership until at least the 2008-09 academic year and has moved to prevent the athletes’ supervisor at the dealership, Brad McRae, from being involved with the university’s athletics program until at least August 2011. Oklahoma also will reduce the number of football coaches who are allowed to recruit off campus this fall. The Sooners also dismissed Bomar, Quinn and walk-on Jermaine Hardison from the team. “Although this case centered on a few violations involving three student-athletes, the committee finds this case to be significant and serious for several reasons,” the NCAA report said, noting the length of time of the violations and the fact that Oklahoma had appeared before the committee in April 2006 regarding violations in its men’s basketball program. On Aug. 3 -- the day before the Sooners began preseason practice Stoops dismissed Bomar and Quinn from the team after the university determined they had been paid for work not performed at Big Red Sports and Imports. That led to a subsequent NCAA investigation. The committee found that Oklahoma “demonstrated a failure to monitor” the employment of several athletes, including some football players who worked during the academic year. The NCAA said that failure led to the university not detecting NCAA rules violations. During the investigation, the university disputed that allegation, arguing that the NCAA should applaud, not penalize, its efforts to root out violations and noted that NCAA president Myles Brand told one news outlet that the university “acted with integrity in taking swift and decisive action” in the case. Both Bomar and Quinn lost a season of eligibility. Bomar has been ordered by the NCAA to pay back more than $7,400 in extra benefits to charity, while Quinn was told to pay back more than $8,100. Both players transferred to Division I-AA schools — Bomar to Sam Houston State and Quinn to Montana — where they can resume their careers this season. Oklahoma officials also appeared before the Committee on Infractions in April 2006 following an investigation into hundreds of improper recruiting phone calls by former basketball coach Kelvin Sampson’s staff. Oklahoma escaped major sanctions in that case, as the NCAA Committee on Infractions found the university guilty of a “failure to monitor,” a less severe ruling than “lack of institutional control,” which had been recommended by the NCAA’s enforcement staff. The committee moved Oklahoma’s self-imposed probation so it would begin in May 2006 and end in May 2008. The NCAA also issued a public reprimand and censure but otherwise accepted the university’s self-imposed sanctions, which included reductions in scholarships, recruiting calls and trips and visits to the school by prospective recruits.
If this is what we get, then USC better get it hard. What more could we have done? Stoops finds out about it and immediately kicks the 2 off the team. It's not like it was convenient to do so. He was forced to move a former QB that had played receiver the previous year back to QB. If we have to forfeit all of those games, then USC should have to do the same and more.
Man, Stoops is getting screwed on this deal. He could have covered it up or made excuses, but he cut the two guys immediately and now he gets his W-L record changed and loses scholarships......i bet eventually something like this will cause him to go to the NFL.
It's a billion dollar industry and the best colleges in the big conferences are the 100 ton gorillas.
what happened to the Reggie Bush's parents got some huge house when he was playing at USC or Dywane Jarrett getting a $1500/month apartment for $200/month? The sad thing is that they haven't retired Vince's Young's number!! i mean if they retired Durant's number, VY should not only retire his number they need a 300 foot Solid Gold Statue on top of the stadium for him.
I find it hard to believe that Stoops didn't know anything was going on. It's a pretty weak penalty anyway. Big deal. They lose an 8-win season and the prestegious Holiday Bowl trophy.
I swear, everyone in Norman knew that idiot Bomar would get us into some crap like this. Honestly, that was his one skill that translated well at the college level, doing stupid sh*t. Still, we got less than we deserved (people here were talking about Bomar and Quinn's "job" well before the team "found out"), so I guess we should be grateful. I can't really fault the dealership though. Took my car to them to be repaired a couple times and they gave me great service and some pretty good discounts. Made me feel like I was on the football team too.
No the losses count as played. According to the wires I have read, they all say explicitly that only the wins would not count, the losses would still count.
