Gurley Suspended for NCAA Violations

Did they not learn anything in the aj green debacle? No sympathy. Your autograph will be just as valuable when you graduate. Jesus christ
 
Also it looks like the memorabilia dealer has been identified. Poor bastard is going to have to go into hiding.
 
beej67 said:
Dude, everyone on Stingtalk knew this was coming. Reddit knew it was coming. That it comes now just means UGA is going to have a ööööty record going into late November when they reactivate Gurley and rush for 300 vs us.

Sure would have been nice for it to hit around November 10th.
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I was worried about this too, but if there's videos of him signing for more than $2000, it's a big deal and they might be better off shutting him down. Gurley certainly has no reason to suit back up. He won't win the Heisman now, UGA will likely be out of the playoff picture.

I wish Gameday was near me. I'd make up about 5000 Todd Gurley signature stickers and slap them on absolutely everything.
 
Oooohhh...

I'm reading now that the videotape is being auctioned.

Well I do have hope then. Hopefully the auctioner sells several copies, and a GT fan gets one of them, and it's released the week of Thansgiving after he already served his 1 game suspension for $399 worth of autographs.

That could maybe work.
 
beej67 said:
Oooohhh...

I'm reading now that the videotape is being auctioned.

Well I do have hope then. Hopefully the auctioner sells several copies, and a GT fan gets one of them, and it's released the week of Thansgiving after he already served his 1 game suspension for $399 worth of autographs.

That could maybe work.
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Auburn fans will outbid us, and probably already have copies.
 
GruffyMcGuiness said:
So if they vacate wins it would end their bowl streak so we wouldn't be tied with them anymore. Excellent.
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I think the streak would still be alive. Vacating wins doesn't necessarily vacate the appearance. Even though we vacated the 2009 ACC Championship, we still get credit for an appearance
 
eneq said:
I think the streak would still be alive. Vacating wins doesn't necessarily vacate the appearance. Even though we vacated the 2009 ACC Championship, we still get credit for an appearance
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If they vacate wins they won't be eligible for a bowl game.
 
coit said:
If they vacate wins they won't be eligible for a bowl game.
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Depends how many they vacate. If they cough up one, they'll still be eligible. Only takes 6 wins over FBS opponents.

How many wins they vacate will depend on how far back the school knew about the problem and still played Gurley.
 
Flywheel said:
Depends how many they vacate. If they cough up one, they'll still be eligible. Only takes 6 wins over FBS opponents.
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If he is found to have received improper benefits, they will have to vacate every win he played in after receiving the benefit. So that's every win this year.
 
Flywheel said:
How many wins they vacate will depend on how far back the school knew about the problem and still played Gurley.
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Is vacating wins connected to the school's knowledge of the ineligibility? Or just to the fact of the ineligibility?
 
I think they will vacate to save themselves from NCAA punishment. Get it over with.
 
You become ineligible after you receive the unallowed benefit. So any win he played in after he received money would have to be vacated.
 
coit said:
If he is found to have received improper benefits, they will have to vacate every win he played in after receiving the benefit. So that's every win this year.
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Respectfully, I don't think that's correct. The player gets punished for the benefits, but I think the vacating of wins is tied to how long the institution knew about the benefits before notifying the NCAA and suspending him. Someone can correct me if they have a link, but isn't that why we had to vacate so many wins in 2009?

The big possibility here IMO is whether the autographs go back to before the season. At the beginning of camp, players sign an NCAA document saying they know of no violations at that time. If the autograph money predates that, then Gurley has mislead the NCAA and he can get canned for the season. That's what happened to Dez Bryant in '09.
 
Flywheel said:
Respectfully, I don't think that's correct. The player gets punished for the benefits, but I think the vacating of wins is tied to how long the institution knew about the benefits before notifying the NCAA and suspending him.
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That could be true, but doesn't make sense. Which wouldn't be surprising, given that it is the NCAA we are talking about here.

And it will be pretty easy to know when the violations occurred since the autographs were authenticated by a documented source.
 
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