USC hit with 2 year ban from post-season!

[Marklar MM]

Ya know, the NCAA is more pissed off now at USC then before. I don't think it was smart for Kiffin and Garrett to openly mock the NCAA the way they did.

[JamStone]

absolutely incredible. yes, lets not match the punishment with the crime...and kill the current athletes & regime that had little if any responsibility. i'm in shock.

How exactly can the NCAA punish Pete Carroll and Reggie Bush now?

You punish the school and the program. That's what happens when the NCAA delivers sanctions. Players leave, they graduate, they declare for the draft. Coaches leave, go to a different job. You simply cannot claim injustice because "innocent" (I use that term loosely) players and coaches are affected by the actions of others when there is basically no recourse to punish those players and coaches who should be directly punished, especially when they no longer have direct affiliation with the school and the program.

That's the way it goes.