Did the NCAA overstep their authority?

Should the NCAA have authority over criminal offenses?

  • Yes, they should cover any criminal activity

    Votes: 101 73.2%
  • No, this is outside of the NCAA authority

    Votes: 37 26.8%

  • Total voters
    138
Count Stewart Mandel among the Penn State appologizers. Anybody that has a problem with what the NCAA did today is either connected to Penn State or insane.

Everyone is quick to write a sky-is-falling, what-will-the-football-program-do-now? articles instead of writing about the usefullness of what the NCAA did today. Abuse coverups won't happen as often (if ever) if they know the NCAA will bring the hammer down like this.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/20...state-ncaa-sanctions/index.html?sct=cf_t11_a1

You knew there was either going to be a large group of people ****** that the NCAA was overstepping its bounds, or a large group of people ****** that the NCAA didn't use a heavy enough hammer to deliver their ***-whooping. I'm glad it's the former instead of the latter.
 
Please give us the info on your claim of additional schools getting the death penalty besides SMU. I don't know of any other schools, D-1 or below, that have gotten the death penalty.

Men's soccer at Morehouse College in 2003 and men's tennis at MacMurray College in 2004.