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Death penalty remains in NCAA storage
Death penalty remains in NCAA storage

Since SMU's football program received the death penalty a couple decades ago, no other schools have faced such severe justice from the NCAA.

It's not for lack of trying. Alabama just went on probation for the fourth time in 14 years. For the Crimson Tide, the repeated violations have the sting of speeding tickets, nothing more, as Dennis Dodd of CBS Sports writes:

"One slip-up during the five-year repeat violator statute of limitations is considered serious. It makes a program eligible for the NCAA death penalty. At Alabama, they scoff. It's a Crimson and White Groundhog Day every day.

"By the time Alabama's latest NCAA repeat offender clock stops ticking it will be 2014. That's 19 years of -- as one infractions committee chairman once put it -- "staring down the barrel of a gun" for the program. Nineteen years of being on death row.

"If this is staring down the barrel of a gun, then 'Bama is Dirty Harry. Make the Tide's day. Alabama's romp through the rules and regs is a clear indicator that SMU's death penalty in 1987 will be the one and only such punishment ever handed down. The NCAA will never again drop the hammer because in the Yellowhammer State we've seen that nobody does it better. Or worse."
   
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