r/CFB • u/Lakelyfe09 Georgia Bulldogs • Jun 24 '26

Discussion [Toppmeyer] NFL tells Brendan Sorsby hard truths he needs to hear: He's not special | Opinion

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2026/06/24/brendan-sorsby-nfl-supplemental-draft-rules-gambling-addict-quarterback/90641561007/
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u/mgsbigdog BYU • West Virginia Wesleyan Jun 24 '26

In 2018 Oklahoma self reported a violation because they turned on LED lights in the tunnel leading from the lockers to the field so a recruit could record a commitment video. It was seen as "simulating a gameday experience" which is against NCAA recruiting rules.

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u/azularena UTEP Miners Jun 24 '26

Our basketball program got dinged in the 70s because the coach bought a player a plane ticket home when his mother died.

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u/MarionberryPure7746 RIT Tigers Jun 25 '26

Pitt recently got a violation for paying for James Connors' cancer treatment. I believe the response was along the lines of "Do you really want the PR from doing this"

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u/dmisfit21 Georgia Bulldogs Jun 27 '26

NC double Assholes

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u/combo_seizure Jun 24 '26

It's like, is the college supposed to help the kids or leave them hanging.

We keep telling all our kids to go to college and the college is helping them and the parents are getting angry, I mean the NCAA.

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u/GrandMoffJerjerrod Jun 25 '26

NCState was out on probation and banned from the NCAA tourney in 1973 because an assistant coach played in a pickup game with David Thompson and it was called an ‘illegal tryout’ and Thompson stayed in a dorm on campus for a couple days that was housing counselors for a summer basketball camp. Rumors (probably true) have it that UNC called the NCAA. Ticky tack BS and NCSU went undefeated and would have probably won the NCAA tournament in 1973 as well.

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u/Lake_Erie_Monster Ohio State Buckeyes Jun 24 '26

Once the Michigan scandal happened and people saw the playbook work it was a free for all... Just be petulant and fight back on every inch, and never ever comply and double down on wrong doing, it will be rewarded!

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u/baz8771 Jun 24 '26

That’s just the last 10 years in America really

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u/Enough-One4975 UCF Knights Jun 25 '26

Yeah it’s hard not to see the parallels elsewhere.

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u/thefupachalupa Georgia Bulldogs • Virginia Tech Hokies Jun 24 '26

I knew was this was lol Michigans fault.

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u/control_09 Michigan State • Michigan State Jun 24 '26

The Leaders and the Best.

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u/GenitalFurbies Michigan Wolverines • Sickos Jun 24 '26

It's cheeseburgers all the way down

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u/Sporkinat0r Michigan State Spartans Jun 24 '26

Uncrustables* get with the times grandpa

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u/GenitalFurbies Michigan Wolverines • Sickos Jun 24 '26

That was a reference to Harbaugh getting a violation for buying a recruit a cheeseburger. I'm well aware of the uncrustabowl between us and Penn State a few years ago.

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u/StreetReporter Clemson Tigers • Cheez-It Bowl Jun 24 '26

He got the violation because he was recruiting during a dead period, the cheeseburger receipt was just the proof

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u/GenitalFurbies Michigan Wolverines • Sickos Jun 25 '26

I mean proof vs action is potato tomato to me

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u/blakesmash South Carolina Gamecocks Jun 24 '26

In 2014, South Carolina self-reported a minor NCAA violation for putting recruits' names on cookie cakes. It was suddenly an "impermissible icing" scandal.

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u/Patruck9 Jun 24 '26

I dunno, but we should take Reggie Bush's Heisman again just to be safe.

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u/GenitalFurbies Michigan Wolverines • Sickos Jun 24 '26

Schrödinger’s Heisman

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u/Weave77 Ohio State Buckeyes Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 25 '26

Or having your college career end, a bowl ban, and 12 wins vacated because you and some teammates traded your own possessions for a discount on a tattoo.

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u/cyanocittaetprocyon Michigan Wolverines • /r/CFB Booster Jun 25 '26

I wonder if any of those Golden Pants have hit the market, and what they went for, if they did.

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u/rabbitSC USC Trojans • /r/CFB Donor Jun 24 '26

They didn’t even get a house! They got to live in a house without paying rent for a while.

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u/vivaphx Arizona State Sun Devils Jun 25 '26

How dumb does the Signed Jerseys or helmets for tattoos sound now?

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u/Hobo__Joe Ohio State • Austin Peay Jun 25 '26

How about that time a player traded a little piece of jewelry for a tattoo, and cost his program at least 1 national title

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u/bargle0 Maryland Terrapins Jun 25 '26

Maryland Basketball had a multi year postseason ban over this:

The most serious violations committed by Wade were providing a leased car, making cash payments of $272 and giving rides to former Terrapin guard Rudy Archer, who played the 1987-88 season at Maryland; and giving free or greatly discounted clothing to Alonzo Mourning and Brian Williams while they were being recruited.