Wow, that bastion of College Football greatness.
how could it be. Rudy must be rolling over in his grave.
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Rudy is still alive
That makes it even worse!
Slight semantic quibble: ND is vacating wins, not forfeiting them.
Here’s the difference: Ohio State vacated its Sugar Bowl win over us after Tattoogate. That did not make our record for the 2010 season 11-2; we’re still 10-3. If they had forfeited the game, we would be 11-2. It just made Ohio State 0-13, although the Ohio State media guide lists them as 0-1 with 12 vacated wins. That one loss? To Bret Bielema.
The NCAA is just gutless. Forfeit the games like a man…no vacate the win crap. Vacate the win…who came up with that soft ball for a forfeit? The games were played…if Notre Dame didn’t win the game then the opponent did. Man up, NCAA.
Yeah, I know the difference. The article subject specifically said forfeiting, so I used that term. I even clicked back to check the terminology.
I see that now. Bad headline. Whoever wrote that should know better.
College football hell just inched closer to freezing…
You think Ole Missy is a little more concerned now?
“Vacating” wins really has no effect whatsoever on a program. There is nothing punitive in it whatsoever. No loss of scholarships, no loss of bowls, no loss of revenue. It is really meaningless in this case. Only way it would matter was if a championship was involved, like our two track championships the NCAA took away with the Tyson Gay housing deal.