Sooners to Appeal NCAA decision

[TigerTaylor]

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- The University of Oklahoma plans to appeal the NCAA's ruling that the school was guilty of a "failure to monitor" the employment of players and must erase eight football victories from the 2005 season. The NCAA also said Wednesday that the Sooners must cut two scholarships for the 2008-09 and 2009-10 school years in the case involving two players kicked off the team last August for being paid for work they didn't perform at a Norman car dealership. Oklahoma president David Boren said the university will appeal the NCAA's "failure to monitor" finding and the ruling that Oklahoma must erase the 2005 wins. As of Thursday, Oklahoma had 14 days to notify the NCAA in writing of any such appeal. "We do not believe that erasing the 2005 season from the record books is fair to the over 100 student athletes and coaches who played by the rules and worked their hearts out for a successful season that year," Boren said. The Sooners went 8-4 and beat Oregon in the Holiday Bowl to end the 2005 season. Records from that season involving quarterback Rhett Bomar and offensive lineman J.D. Quinn must be erased, the NCAA said, and coach Bob Stoops' career record will be amended, dropping it from 86-19 in eight seasons to 78-19. Oklahoma also will have two years of probation added to an earlier penalty, extending the Sooners' probation to May 23, 2010. Link------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

[LAZY]

From word of mouth I have heard that car dealership has gotten vandalized pretty bad

 

[Justice]

Wow, 0U gets a slap on the wrist, and they appeal it. Unbelieveable. Are the 8 wins even really important? It's not a "good season" as far as 0klahoma goes.

 

[LAZY]

Justice it's not really so much loosing 8 wins that season. Because everyone knows OU had wins that season. It's more so that there is 8 less wins on Stoops record, thus lowering his percentage win

 

[Opal]

They need to just accept it and quit caring so much about stats. The past is the past.

 

[BrewCityBuck]

It's pretty ridiculous to take wins away, it's not like the team can babysit and look into what players are doing outside campus. Stoops' record shouldn't be changed because of a couple bad choices from his players. Rhett Bomar was called to do a radio interview, the radio host asked him if he wanted to do an interview and Bomar replied, "Get a real job."

Heard that on FSR this morning.

 

[Justice]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (LAZY @ Jul 15 2007, 03:06 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Justice it's not really so much loosing 8 wins that season. Because everyone knows OU had wins that season. It's more so that there is 8 less wins on Stoops record, thus lowering his percentage win</div>Okay, I kinda see what you're getting at. I don't understand why they don't erase the whole season as opposed to just the wins, if anything.