I feel really bad for AQM and Grace. Yes the car thing is dumb, but like Pete said it usually would be a couple game suspension.
These are 2 guys that committed to Miami when we had "the cloud", and no one knew what the fallout from the NCAA investigation was going to be, and came anyways. They could have gone anywhere, but they came here.
It feels like AQM/Grace stood by Miami when it was a tough time for the school, but the school didn't stand by AQM/Grace when things got tough for them.
More reason why they should not have done this!
They knew what the school just went thorough.
They could have done anything else! Like another poster said they could have even stolen the cars.
The one thing they should know not to do is accept benifits.
It's not even close to the same thing as stealing the cars. They didn't steal anything, get a DUI, hit a girl, etc. They didn't break any laws.
Yes it was dumb, but NFL caliber kids make this mistake all the time.
At Georgia - Gurley took $3k for autographs and got 4 games. AJ Green sold his jersey for $1k to an agent and got 4 games.
When the Shapiro suspensions were handed out, 8 Miami players got between 1 and 6 game suspensions.
I don't feel what AQM & Grace did was any worse, so I feel bad their missing their entire Senior years.