Citing improper benefits given to former star running back Reggie Bush, the NCAA this week announced that the harshest
sanctions in a generation would be levied against the USC football program, including loss of scholarships, a two-year ban on post-season play, and a requirement that the entire population of North America be subjected to a “Men in Black”-style mind-wipe that will erase all memories of the Trojans’ national championship-winning victory over Oklahoma in the 2005 Orange Bowl. Bush denies the allegations of being paid to play football for USC prior to being paid to play football for the NFL. In a
press release, the NCAA noted that “the violations in this case strike at the heart of the NCAA amateurism principal, which states that intercollegiate athletics should be motivated primarily by education and its benefits.”
In other, wholly unrelated news, the University of Nebraska is
poised to move its football program from the Big 12 to the Big Ten, which would bring the the number of Big Ten teams to 12, but would not result in it becoming the Big 12. Coupled with the recent loss of Colorado, this would bring the number of Big 12 teams to Ten, but would
