the bottom of the coaches poll on the actual USA today site:

“The AFCA prohibits coaches from voting for schools on major NCAA probation.”

I assume the distinction is in the “major” probation.

Here’s the link: http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/usatpoll.htm?DB_OEM_ID=9300

The USA TODAY/CNN Board of Coaches is conducted with the cooperation of the American Football Coaches Association and in conjunction with the American Football Coaches Retirement Trust. By agreement with the AFCA, teams on major NCAA or conference probation are ineligible to be ranked.

Again, it looks like “major” probation is the rule, ou’s must be minor probation or something similar.

This post was rather intriguing to me. I found a article on the history of OU and probation. At the bottom, it read:

“And then the latest July 11, 2007. The NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions has penalized the University of Oklahoma for major violations in its football program.” Is it me, or is the word major used?

http://www.gnextinc.com/ousoonersblog/2007/07/ncaa-lays-law-down-to-oklahoma-sooners.html

What does this all mean? I have no clue

I copied and pasted:

OKLAHOMA CITY — "Oklahoma must erase its wins from the 2005 football season and will lose two scholarships for the 2008-09 and 2009-10 school years, the NCAA said Wednesday. The penalties stem from a case involving two players, including the Sooners’ starting quarterback, who were kicked off the team last August for being paid for work they had not performed at a Norman car dealership. The NCAA said Oklahoma was guilty of a "failure to monitor" the employment of the players.

Oklahoma President David Boren said the university will appeal the NCAA’s "failure to monitor" finding and the ruling that Oklahoma must erase the wins from the 2005 season. Oklahoma has 15 days to notify the NCAA in writing of any such appeal.

The Sooners went 8-4 and beat Oregon in the Holiday Bowl to end the 2005 season. Records from that season involving quarterback Rhett Bomar and offensive lineman J.D. Quinn must be erased, the NCAA said, and coach Bob Stoops’ career record will be amended to reflect the erased wins, dropping it from 86-19 in eight seasons to 78-19.

Oklahoma also will have two years of probation added to an earlier penalty, extending the Sooners’ probation to May 23, 2010."

Is this not major? If not, I don’t know what is!!!!!

Can this further be investigated by a lawyer, Mack, someone?

I’m no PhD or NCAA expert, but I am seeing the word major in many of the articles I read. However, I’m sure this would have been noticed last year as they played in the Big 12 Title game.

From what I read, the team has lost two scholarships through 2010 and has forfeited all games won in 2005 including the bowl game. So if they are bragging about winning a bowl game in 2005, that game has been forfeited and they did not win it. But they do not appear to be violating any post season games.

lol

Invisible straws.

The only thing that stands out is that the NCAA “extended” the current probationary period. It wasnt the football team that was on probation to begin with. It was the basketball team thanks to Kelvin Sampson who went on and did the same thing to Indiana.

So perhaps the University itself or athletic department is on probation and not the football team and only if the team itself is on probation does their privilige of being rated in the Coaches Poll become lost. Otherwise, the OU Football team could have been ineligible to be ranked in the coaches poll if say the Lacrosse coach made improper phone calls. Because the original probation that was “extended” had nothing to do with Football.

It is also possible that the Coaches poll changed that rule to participate in the BCS. Otherwise the coaches have the power to arbitraily exclude teams based on their own opinion about who should be eligible. I cant imagine that would be allowed by the BCS.