ESPN reports that the University of Southern California will soon receive stiff penalties from the NCAA for alleged rules violations in the Trojans’ football and men’s basketball programs. The punishments in this closely watched infractions case reportedly will include a two-year ban on postseason competition as well as a loss of up to 20 scholarships, the Los Angeles Times reports. The NCAA has scheduled a news conference for 3 p.m. today to announce the sanctions. The Chronicle will have more on this story later today.
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4 Responses to NCAA Penalties Against USC Could Include Postseason Ban, Loss of Scholarships
glenthomas - June 10, 2010 at 4:08 pm
Does anyone know what USC paid the head football and men’s basketball coaches? I saw one of the salaries last year and it was exorbitant!
ulysses - June 10, 2010 at 5:23 pm
I’d say its not exorbitant at all its a small percentage of the total those schools bring in, in revenues because of their football programs . USC is ranked 19th in amount generated:So if U texas ranked highest (see below)brings in $120M and pays the coach $2M its a great investment (1.6%). Winning coaches have lots of choices and to attract them you need to pay them.The fact that people are willing to pay for entertainment like sports and not for education doesn’t make it unfair or exhorbitant…just makes professors jealous. Its one way to finance all that dead wood known as tenured professors.The chart ranks all Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly known as Division I-A) schools by the total revenue they took in during the 2007-08 reporting year.1st Texas $120,288,370 Big 12 2nd Ohio State $117,953,712 Big Ten 3rd Florida $106,030,895 Southeastern Conference 4th Michigan $99,027,105 Big Ten 5th Wisconsin $93,452,334 Big Ten 6th Penn State $91,570,233 Big Ten 7th Auburn $89,305,326 Southeastern Conference 8th Alabama $88,869,810 Southeastern Conference 9th Tennessee $88,719,798 Southeastern Conference 10th Oklahoma State $88,554,438 Big 12 11th Kansas $86,009,257 Big 12 12th Louisiana State $84,183,362 Southeastern Conference 13th Georgia $84,020,180 Southeastern Conference 14th Notre Dame $83,352,439 Independent 15th Iowa $81,148,310 Big Ten 16th Michigan State $77,738,746 Big Ten 17th Oklahoma $77,098,009 Big 12 18th Stanford $76,661,466 Pac-10 19th University of Southern California $76,409,919 Pac-10
rhet56 - June 10, 2010 at 7:30 pm
Revenue generating sports like football and men’s basketball like to tout the money they bring in and how they help support non-revenue generating sports programs. All too often, however, football and basketball programs overspend even the millions of dollars they bring in, and actually run large deficits. They spend a lot more than just the salary of the highest paid employee of the university.Maybe Ulysses would be happier supporting the NFL rather than the “semi-pro” league and “all that dead wood known as tenured professors.”No? You like the prestige and affiliation with a respected university? That requires faculty salaries and a system that values educating students and not accepting less than a 50% graduation rate in football and men’s basketball. Maybe universities should primarily educate and promote all the benefits of amateur athletics, like every other college sport.
dmaratto - June 10, 2010 at 7:53 pm
As a corollary to #3, and also pertaining to #2, another problem is when a school’s athletic programs don’t make that much money, yet they still pay coaches’ exorbitant salaries. My alma mater, University of Illinois, is nowhere on that Top 20 income from sports lists, yet they still pay Ron Zook (the football coach) and Bruce Weber (men’s basketball) $1 million salaries. I would mention that the Illini never win anything, but that’s like saying water is wet.