NCAA: Oklahoma must forfeit 2005 season
By MURRAY EVANS, Associated Press Writer
16 minutes ago

OKLAHOMA CITY - The Oklahoma football program must forfeit its wins from the 2005 season and will lose two scholarships for the 2008-09 and 2009-10 school years.

The penalties, announced Wednesday by the NCAA, stem from a case involving two players, including the Sooners' starting quarterback, who were kicked off the team for being paid for work they had not performed at a Norman car dealership.

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Those sanctions are in addition to those already self-imposed by Oklahoma, which has banned athletes from working at the car dealership until at least the 2008-09 academic year and has moved to prevent the athletes' supervisor at the dealership, Brad McRae, from being involved with the university's athletics program until at least August 2011.

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On Aug. 3 — the day before the Sooners began preseason practice — Stoops dismissed Bomar and Quinn from the team after the university determined they had been paid for work not performed at Big Red Sports and Imports. That led to a subsequent NCAA investigation.

The committee found that Oklahoma "demonstrated a failure to monitor" the employment of several athletes, including some football players who worked during the academic year. The NCAA said that failure led to the university not detecting NCAA rules violations.

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Both Bomar and Quinn lost a season of eligibility. Bomar has been ordered by the NCAA to pay back more than $7,400 in extra benefits to charity, while Quinn was told to pay back more than $8,100. Both players transferred to Division I-AA schools — Bomar to Sam Houston State and Quinn to Montana — where they can resume their careers this season.

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The NCAA punishes the SCHOOL, which did NOTHING WRONG, yet lets the athletes in question resume THEIR careers. In fact, OU was the one that discovered, investigated and acted on this incident. They informed the NCAA, who had NO part in the investigation and would have never known anything but for OU's forthrightness. OU would have been far better off if they had quietly removed the kids from the car dealership and kept everything quiet.

But no - they acted honorably and for that they are penalized?!?

Absolute BS.

And in a REALLY ironic twist, the car dealership in question was sold less than a month before this story broke. The poor guy who bought it - and had nothing whatsoever to do with the controversy - stepped right into a hornet's nest.