First off, I expected this to happen, because after all, they denied Todd McNair's appeal, and he was central to the NCAA COI's case against USC's lack of institutional control. You know, sorta like how the NCAA is going to crush Ohio State from Jim Tressel's lying to the NCAA and for allowing knowledge of student misconduct to go unreported and unpunished...practically the same situation. Well, I guess anything is possible with the NCAA, because they've stated as a matter of fact, that no two cases are alike, thus throwing out the history of judicial precedence and its role in the past 2500 years of justice, dating back to the Romans.
Where was I? Oh...so anyway, USCFootball.com is reporting that its sources have learned that USC's appeal was denied by the NCAA.
The NCAA removed any possibility for overturning any decision, specifically by removing the ability to compare past cases. Once they did that, and once they limited the scope of an appeal, it was much like a death penalty case in federal courts...ain't gonna happen unless new evidence completely exonerates the convicted.
But look at it this way: USC's got 8 verbal commits for 2012, and six of them are 4-stars, another is a JC-transfer, and the last is an unranked kid at fullback. Nothing would counter the NCAA more, than to see USC beat Oregon and end up with a perfect (or near-perfect) record, forcing the second and third best teams in the PAC-12 to play for the PAC-12 championship in December, then having a top-10 class despite being limited to 75 total scholarships and 15 signed recruits for 2012's class.
So Trojan fans, nothing would be sweeter, than for Barkley, Woods, McDonald and Company to make a huge statement contrary to the NCAA's intent to punish USC, and beat Oregon and the rest of the PAC-12...give those folks at the NCAA COI strokes from the blood vessels popping in their heads from seeing USC dominate even under severe sanctions!
Go Trojans!
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