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Fact #4: Vacating victories is one of the gayest penalties ever created. By definition, a vacated win is a game we won that we no longer get to take credit for, but the team we beat still has to record the loss in their record books. A forfeiture means we give up the win and the other team gets it. But here’s the deal. If you and I are standing in a parking lot, and I beat your a** in front of everybody watching, even if I’m made to come back later and apologize to you, everyone who saw it still knows I beat your a**. While this penalty is a little annoying, big crapping deal.

(Sorry Tennessee, the 41-17 flogging we put on you in 2007 still counts).

Fact #7: The reason everybody cheats is because the rules are impossible to keep in totality. I liken the NCAA bylaws to Jewish law in the Old Testament. With thousands of these man made laws on the books, it was impossible to keep them all. So God (who only gave us ten to keep, by the way) saw that we were too stupid to do even that, and sent His Son to be the sacrifice for our sins once and for all. That’s a big deal, and outside of this article, the only real big deal there is in life. But you get my point.

There is no way you can completely regulate a wealthy booster who lives in another state. Or an athlete who looks for a loophole with a textbook. NCAA, you’ve done things like doing away with athletic dorms which made it easier to monitor players because you said it was unfair to schools who couldn’t afford them, then you have the audacity to turn around and hammer us for not monitoring our players.

I feel like I’m in an argument with my wife here.

Fact #8: ...I’m getting pretty sick of us cooperating and then getting punished anyway. Reggie Bush was living in a beach house worth over $750,000 while at USC, and USC has basically said “Y’all come prove it.” What’s happened? Nothing. You’re sending a message, NCAA. If the real issue is deter speeding, sometimes an officer who shows grace and issues a warning does more good than an officer who goes ahead and writes you the ticket.