Guess who is put on probation and why?

[amckillip]

Well, they were also banned from postseason play for one year, lost 20 recruiting days, reduced number of coaches allowed to recruit, vacated all wins from the season Mayo played, forced to give back $206,200 in which the received for their 2008 tourney appearance, and will forfeit all future payments for that appearance which amounts to close to $1.5 million. Yeah, that is much worse.

Also, don't kid yourself. If Kentucky did what San Francisco I'm sure you would be going crazy that the NCAA let them the go with a slap on the wrist.

Ok, the post season ban is nothing, they weren't making the tourney either way. Figure in the increased ticket $$$ from having a good team with Mayo, and that easily covers the 200K. I'm not sure, where the 1.5M is coming from (I'm not saying it's right or wrong either way, I just don't understand what you mean). And no, if UK did that, there would be no punishment, and if they got the same punishment, I assure you I wouldn't be worried about them. I'm really not as biased against majors as you seem to think, only the ones that regularly break the rules (USC and UK included). You never see me ripping on Duke, MSU, the Illini, or like programs, just the ones who cheat to get ahead of the pack.