Click here for linkA little more than a decade ago, Alabama was also leveled by NCAA sanctions and placed on five years' probation in connection with the Albert Means scandal. The NCAA concluded that an Alabama booster, the late Logan Young, gave a Memphis high school coach $100,000 and two SUVs to steer Means to Alabama.
According to NCAA officials, it's the closest they have come to shutting down a program since the SMU case. Alabama had been placed on probation in 1995 after Antonio Langham admitted to signing with a sports agent and then coming back to play his senior season.
"They were absolutely staring down the barrel of a gun," Thomas Yeager, then chairman of the NCAA's committee on infractions, said at the time. "These violations are some of the worst, most serious that have ever occurred."
And while Alabama stumbled through an assortment of football coaches over the next few years and was banned from the postseason in 2002 and 2003, the Crimson Tide finally got it right with the hiring of Nick Saban in 2007.
And yet, the Ohio States, Miamis, and North Carolinas pale in comparison? BS!!!
And don't get me started about Scam Newton.