I'm all for holding players accountable, but the punishment definitely did not fit the crime in this instance.
All of you fockers that are defending the admin for this **** are a bunch of traitors. Family takes care of family. How can any of these coaches say that they are like family and then not even fight for them. AQM I can understand, even though I still think the punishment is excessive. He already had a couple of strikes against him. This was Grace's first big mistake at the U, and for something that every major program in the P5 is doing (setting up players with fancy rides, see Bama, Taint, Clemson for details). Jimmy Johnson would have told the compliance department to kick rocks and fought for them.
Bottom line is that these guys should have gotten 2 to 3 games max suspension, end of story.
Dudes at other colleges like FSWHO, Bama, Taint, etc. are raping chicks, illegally carrying firearms, rolling in fly rides that they or their families could never afford, cheating academically, beating women up, and most of the time nothing happens to them, especially at SEC schools and most definitely there is near immunity for their best players.
At the end of the day it all goes back to the PC bullshyt. The admin rather be PC than stand up for their players, NCAA be damned.
At this point it's like being the NCAA's bytch. At what point does it end, if ever. At some point somebody has to stand up and fight against Emmert and this corrupt organization. It might as well be the U, we've always been renegades anyway.
Way too many soft porsters pretending to be Canes on this thread.