Last night news broke that OU football would forfeit all wins from the 2005 season. Many might think a penalty like this would only stem from doping or various forms of cheating but instead it was because ex-quarterback Rhett Bomar and a few other players recievedcash for work they didn't do at a Norman car dealership. It wouldn't be much of a gamble to say that Sooner nation was in an uproar. I am a very faithful sooner fan as well and I am just at a loss of words.

First off the punishment dosen't fit the crime. The players were payed by a non-OU workplace and has no bonds to Big Red Sports and Imports (car dealership name). Even though the players are well informed on the ncaa rules (as stupid as they may be) it was an act of individual indiscretion. Therefore I feel that the penalties should be personal as well. Make the players pay back money earned and strip one year of elgibility and small recruitment restrictionswould be the best penalty. While this was done it was in combonation with the other much stricter penalties.

My biggest complaint with the whole process is that OU handled the problem withclass and did the right thing. They released the players when the university found out about it even though it came to big loss to OU. I can understand the penalties if OU had known about the problem and not acted. The fact of the matter is OU did the right thing yet are still penalized for it.

I feel that this is an NCAA witch hunt against OU to take a small offense and magnify it to a whole new level. It takes away hard earned victories from those who are innocent. Also I feel that if they take away wins then the losses should be taken away as well. The way it is our record that year was 0-4. That way it is like the season never existed. I hope that this year we can use this as motivation to do even better than the previous seasons