In addition, the women's tennis team was cited in the report for unauthorized phone calls made by a former player.
[1] Shortly after the NCAA handed out its penalties, the Football Writers Association of America announced it would no longer recognize the Trojans as its 2004 national champion.
"[11] Miller also suggested that the sanctions had more to do with objections to the football culture at USC than its alleged noncompliance with NCAA rules: During a flight delay last year, I was cornered at an airport by an administrator from a major program outside the Pac-12.
He said that he thought the NCAA was trying to scare everyone with the ruling, but subsequent major violations cases put it in a pickle.Then he told me that USC was punished for its "USC-ness," that while many teams had closed down access — to media, to fans, etc.
Further, more than a few schools thought that the presence of big-time celebrities, such as Snoop Dogg and Will Ferrell, at practices and at games constituted an unfair recruiting advantage for the Trojans.It wasn't against the rules, but everyone hated it.
Accusations later came out that, while Dee was athletic director there, Miami had also been the center of major improper benefits, specifically that of university booster Nevin Shapiro from 2002 until 2010.
One writer stated: "it seems only fair [Dee] should spend a day at USC's Heritage Hall wearing a sandwich board with the word 'Hypocrite.
Sanctions against Penn State, which included a four-year bowl ban and forty lost scholarships, were significantly reduced after two years.
On November 21, 2012, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Frederick Shaller ruled that the NCAA was "malicious" in its investigation of McNair.
In his ruling, the Judge stated that e-mails between an investigative committee member, an NCAA worker, and a person who works in the agency's appeals division "tend to show ill will or hatred" toward McNair.
In an e-mail, one staffer called McNair "a lying morally bankrupt criminal, in my view, and a hypocrite of the highest order."
[23] In February 2015, the California appellate court ruled that the NCAA cannot seal the estimated 400 pages of material regarding McNair's defamation lawsuit.