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Old Tue Mar 22, 2011, 05:08pm
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If Pearl's tape was illegal, isn't it up to UI to press for charges? IIRC, he wasn't even so much as reprimanded from that angle.
From what I remember, the laws in IA were/are different than IL about wiretapping, and thus it would've been a difficult prosecution based on jurisdictions, available evidence, etc.

The whole process was started as a result of Pearl having a tape of a recruit admitting that IL offered him a specific amount of cash, and a car. How much more of a major violation can there be? This isn't accidentally speaking to a recruit on the wrong day of the week. Play the tape in a news conference and IL will be knocked back down to Division 3 status. But yet, none of that was part of the final findings. Not a single mention. Even with the NCAA's version of justice. How come?

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The difference, of course, is that the NCAA doesn't operate under the same rules of evidence and presumption of innocence as the US Justice System. More like Haazard County, IMO.
Agreed, hence the same disdain for the NCAA. I believe the NCAA even said outright in their news conference that even though they couldn't prove anything, they still felt IL was guilty. If that isn't Hazzard Co.-like, I don't know what is...
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Oh, and Jeff - if it's not right to dislike a person that does your team wrong over time, how come I never see you wearing a red sweater vest?
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Oh, and Jeff - if it's not right to dislike a person that does your team wrong over time, how come I never see you wearing a red sweater vest?
Because he's not Bill Cosby?
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Old Tue Mar 22, 2011, 05:31pm
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Because he's not Bill Cosby?
How do you know?
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Old Tue Mar 22, 2011, 05:33pm
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How do you know?
Because Cosby would be on here bragging about Temple.
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Oh, and Jeff - if it's not right to dislike a person that does your team wrong over time, how come I never see you wearing a red sweater vest?
Have you heard me even talk about Tressel? Actually it is interesting, but I do not care. And what he was accused of was worse than I can remember anyone from the Michigan football program doing.

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You obviously do not know much about my personal opinions on Bill Cosby. I will leave it there.

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You obviously do not know much about my personal opinions on Bill Cosby. I will leave it there.

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They really aren't relevant to a discussion of whether you wear a sweater vest.
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They really aren't relevant to a discussion of whether you wear a sweater vest.
Cosby did not wear a vest.

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Cosby did not wear a vest.

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Oh, and Jeff - if it's not right to dislike a person that does your team wrong over time, how come I never see you wearing a red sweater vest?
And on that note....

Do you know what the difference is between Bruce Pearl and Jim Tressel?

Nothing.
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From what I remember, the laws in IA were/are different than IL about wiretapping, and thus it would've been a difficult prosecution based on jurisdictions, available evidence, etc.

The whole process was started as a result of Pearl having a tape of a recruit admitting that IL offered him a specific amount of cash, and a car. How much more of a major violation can there be? This isn't accidentally speaking to a recruit on the wrong day of the week. Play the tape in a news conference and IL will be knocked back down to Division 3 status. But yet, none of that was part of the final findings. Not a single mention. Even with the NCAA's version of justice. How come?
Because Thomas was smart enough to have a plausible explanation.
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He was proven to be telling the truth. Doesn't really matter too much.


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Agreed, hence the same disdain for the NCAA. I believe the NCAA even said outright in their news conference that even though they couldn't prove anything, they still felt IL was guilty. If that isn't Hazzard Co.-like, I don't know what is...

Like I said, I don't remember much about it except fans shaking their car keys at Carver Hawkeye Arena and vague talk of the possibility of batteries (representing the tape recorder) being thrown on the floor if Pearl went to the game at Illinois. Hawkeye fans found the whole thing amusing. I do remember there being some question of legality regarding the tapes, too.

But I had more important things on my mind when I was 16.
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But I had more important things on my mind when I was 16.
Like how do I get my hands on that cash and Blazer?

Or, how do I get my hands on other things?...
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Like how do I get my hands on that cash and Blazer?

Or, how do I get my hands on other things?...
Cash and the blazer would have been nice, but it was the "other things."
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