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Oklahoma dismisses QB Bomar/NCAA probation

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and another...by the way these are from www.hornfans.com just to give some credit

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Tulsa World newspaper has a feature today that compares the current emerging Oklahoma situation to what happened at Texas A&M with their job scandal in 1992, which was also an isolated incident involving players who'd run afoul outside of the knowledge of the coaches or compliance office. A&M, as a repeat violator, got the TV/post season ban for '94 plus five years probation.
 
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Dryden said:
Tulsa World newspaper has a feature today that compares the current emerging Oklahoma situation to what happened at Texas A&M with their job scandal in 1992, which was also an isolated incident involving players who'd run afoul outside of the knowledge of the coaches or compliance office. A&M, as a repeat violator, got the TV/post season ban for '94 plus five years probation.
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if OU gets smacked pretty good by the NCAA how long will Stoopes want to be babysitting a program that isn't going anywhere and can't go anywhere for a long time? whether you like Stoopes or not isn't the point - he's clearly a great coach. when all the dust settles from this does he end up in the NFL or somewhere else? you have to at least wonder.

it is actually possible that Bomar destroyed more than one season . . .
 
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If this does to very badly for OU will the NCAA conduct its first ever draft to distribute the talent which wants to transfer, or will they just go back to Texas and play for Mack Brown?

Not that he needed the help, but to have your #1 recruiting rival potentially crash and burn has to make Brown downright giddy.
 
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Not that he needed the help, but to have your #1 recruiting rival potentially crash and burn has to make Brown downright giddy.
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Well A&M would normally be a concern, but having Franchione there has to make Brown giddy too.

The Tulsa World comparison does raise an interesting question though. Most everybody agrees that the SMU-type death penalty will never be done again, but I'd go further and contend that the A&M-type TV ban won't be done again either, at least not to a BCS power in this day and age. A TV ban at Oklahoma, even for one year, would be devastating, and not just to the Sooners, but to every single team in the Big-XII that also plays the Sooners.

You think Mack Brown would be happy that his biggest game of the year can't be televised? Oklahoma's penalty would actually cost every team in the Big-XII South millions too. Such a penalty wouldn't necessarily preclude Oklahoma from getting to the Big-XII title game either, which would be a whole new fiasco in itself.
 
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Moron

McRae, the former Big Red general manager, confirmed Bomar and Quinn had been employed at the dealership, though he said he wasn’t sure when they started. They were among as many as 20 to 25 OU football players involved in the last four years to wash and detail cars and to run errands.

“They work,” McRae said in an interview last April. “It wasn’t no great conspiracy where you come in and clock in and not work, or whatever.”

OU sources said in April and reaffirmed Wednesday that the initial investigation did not reveal NCAA rules violations. McRae, who was fired last winter for reasons he said were unrelated to the initial investigation, said Wednesday he “didn’t do anything wrong” and said he was unaware of any wrongdoing by Bomar and Quinn or any other football players.

McRae said the players did not receive cash payments for their work. He said he never saw paychecks that were inordinately large.
“They never got a big check from Big Red,” McRae said.
 
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Stoops names Thompson as OU?s starting quarterback

Associated Press
NORMAN, Okla. -- Oklahoma football coach Bob Stoops named Paul Thompson as the Sooners’ starting quarterback Thursday, one day after former starter Rhett Bomar was dismissed from the OU squad.
Stoops, in his first public comments since Bomar and offensive linemen J.D. Quinn were kicked off the team, told a luncheon audience at a Norman church that it didn’t take coaches long to convince Thompson—who switched to wide receiver after losing the starting job to Bomar early last season—to make the move back to quarterback.
“I appreciate the courage of Paul Thompson,” Stoops said. “We said, ‘Paul is our guy. But is he going to want to do it?’ In your heart you have to want it. He came back and said, ‘I’m your guy, coach.”’
As of noon Thursday, university officials had yet to confirm that Bomar and Quinn were the two players kicked off the team after an investigation revealed they broke NCAA rules through their employment at a local business. However, both players’ names were removed from the roster on OU’s Web site.
The school said in a statement issued Wednesday that the players violated NCAA rules by working at a private business and taking “payment over an extended period of time in excess of time actually worked.”
Stoops planned a 3:15 p.m. CDT news conference to address the situation as the Sooners prepared to begin preseason practice Thursday afternoon.
Thompson entered last season as Oklahoma’s starter, but after the Sooners lost their season opener to Texas Christian, Bomar won the job and Thompson changed positions.
“We have a grown man who is very smart,” OU offensive coordinator Kevin Wilson said at the luncheon. “He is a quality kid who will do a phenomenal job. He has come down that ramp and played in important games.”
Besides Thompson, the Sooners have three other quarterbacks on their roster: junior-college transfer Joey Halzle, freshman Sam Bradford and walk-on Hays McEachern.
 
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I love coaches. they can spin ANYTHING.

"can you still be a national champion contender, coach?"

Stoops' replymakes it sounds like Paul Thompson (a fifth year senior, a great kid, etc.) was just about his choice to be QB regardless of Bomar.

"Paul is a great kid, he's had a ton of snaps in practice, the competition was so close... Bomar didn't have that much experience either... Paul Thompson is a great guy, he's been taking snaps at QB for four years... as coaches we didn't do what helped Paul most so as coaches we need to do more.... we like the way Paul throws...."

by the time he's done it sounds like they don't even need Bomar, they've got PAUL THOMPSON. Bomar? Bomar who? :biggrin:
 
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