www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id...re-ban-sign-stealing
No vacated wins. no postseason bans, Moore only has an additional game suspension.
Seems to me this lays the groundwork for a future suit to overturn the 2018 vacated games (20; WL 15-5, the vacated FF appearance, the vacated Big 12 title, the 14 straight conference titles, etc.)
Remember, the big issue in the penalties driving the vacated games penalty was the $3000 given to DeSousa’s manager that never got to DrSousa or his family. The final report specifically notes there was no evidence that anyone at KU had any knowledge of these payments.
If stealing signs helps you win games in your historic top 10 FB program and gets you to big dollar post season perch, that’s a much more significant violation than playing a player you benched until you had the NCAA’s blessing to play him. If the NCAA had not blessed him KU may or may not have won as many games as it did with him, but this issue would not have existed. Another classic NCAA faux pas. If they had done their job up front… but they did not…
It’s best to remember the excessive penalties the NCAA tried to slap on KU, and the reality that the IARP downgraded them and dismissed some, effectively acknowledging those excesses.
It will take time, though, IF KU should ever decide to pursue it,
And KU probably won’t.
If KU ever did, I can see waiting at least until the archaic minions at the NCAA are gone and cooler heads can review the provable facts AND analyze the NCAA’s historical overstepping attempts where KU has been involved.
