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Originally Posted by adambparker 
That's all well and good, but there is no precedent for taking away a trophy from a previous recipient, nor is there a prescription to do so after the fact.
The fact of the matter is that the only reason many of the players who get Heisman votes each year are "eligible" is because the entire industry of college football, from parents to players to coaches to ADs to NCAA officials to fans to broadcasters (and on and on) is built on looking the other way for the sake of __________ (fill in the blank: profit, achievement, draft position, advertising revenue, school pride, and on and on).
If it were otherwise, it might be as simple as you describe, but it isn't. Players at many of the big programs in the country are being paid directly or indirectly through cash under the table/no-show jobs/having papers written for them/etc. College football is big business for schools and media and fans, and to revoke one player's trophy because he happened to get caught is hypocrisy of the worst sort. The powers that be in college football are raking it in hand over fist, and to turn around and punish a player for taking advantage of a system they have let spiral out of control is insulting to everyone whom they would have believe that there is any purity left in college football.
The fact of the matter is that the only reason many of the players who get Heisman votes each year are "eligible" is because the entire industry of college football, from parents to players to coaches to ADs to NCAA officials to fans to broadcasters (and on and on) is built on looking the other way for the sake of __________ (fill in the blank: profit, achievement, draft position, advertising revenue, school pride, and on and on).
If it were otherwise, it might be as simple as you describe, but it isn't. Players at many of the big programs in the country are being paid directly or indirectly through cash under the table/no-show jobs/having papers written for them/etc. College football is big business for schools and media and fans, and to revoke one player's trophy because he happened to get caught is hypocrisy of the worst sort. The powers that be in college football are raking it in hand over fist, and to turn around and punish a player for taking advantage of a system they have let spiral out of control is insulting to everyone whom they would have believe that there is any purity left in college football.
There is no way this can be so. The NCAA is on guard against this very thing.
