CBS Sports Reporting Georgia Tech Will VACATE 2009 ACC Championship

by Winfield Featherston on Jul 14, 2011 2:38 PM EDT in Georgia Tech Football

Brett McMurphy of CBSSports.com is reporting that a source has told the news organization that Georgia Tech will vacate the 2009 ACC championship.

Presently an NCAA news conference is scheduled to start at 3PM EST where more details are to be aired out. Currently many believe that there are issues surrounding Demaryius Thomas and Morgan Burnett who reportedly received a T-SHIRT AND A WATCH! from a booster. Both played influential roles in 2009. Speculation leads us to believe that vacating the 2009 title is a direct link to Tech's soon-to-be status as a "repeat offender" from its probation period back in 2005-2007. The Yellow Jackets had until November 2010 to clear the probationary period to be cleared of any penalties that could call them as a repeat offender.

Both players have denied accepting gifts from agents according to the AJC's Doug Roberson

Georgia Tech is scheduled to host a press conference at 4:30PM EST.

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Of course we have to vacate our ACC Championship

because the possession of said watch and t-shirt gave us an extremely unfair advantage.

THWG!

by gtg991z on Jul 14, 2011 3:14 PM EDT reply actions

I hate all of your guts, as a UGA fan must...

…But this seems awful ticky-tack to me. A watch and a t-shirt? Doesn’t the NCAA have anything better to do?

by first and thom on Jul 14, 2011 3:23 PM EDT reply actions

This is what the NCAA does

especially during the off season. Self-validation. Try to swing around whatever authority they can, citing “minor infractions” then blowing up the penalties because the institution under investigation doesn’t lay down and worship said authority. I hate the NCAA in principle. Always have, and from this day forward… always will.

THWG!

by gtg991z on Jul 14, 2011 3:41 PM EDT up reply actions

Amen

Based on the report, they seemed more pissed that we didn’t cooperate with them properly than with the allegations themselves. In fact, the report didn’t really prove to me that there was definite misconduct on the player’s part. They were too busy complaining that Tech was ruining the “integrity” of their investigation.

Unfortunately, we’re a middle-of-the-road program where they can make an example of us and people will notice, while at the same time, we’re not so big that everything will get screwed up.

by acedarney on Jul 14, 2011 4:15 PM EDT up reply actions

The NCAA is accusing us of essentially covering up the infractions

and when you add that with the “repeat offender” status, they hit us hard

Better to have died a small boy than to drop this football - John HeismanFromTheRumbleSeat

by Winfield Featherston on Jul 14, 2011 3:43 PM EDT up reply actions

At least no lost scholarlships

I know the money hurts with the Hewitt deal out there and the ACC championship thing is a slap in the face, but there’s not much here to do any real damage to the football or basketball programs.

by first and thom on Jul 14, 2011 3:49 PM EDT up reply actions

BS

This is total BS. Is it April 1st? I mean the NCAA is the single reason that college sports are as screwed up as they are. I mean I can understand if we are talking large sums of $ or Cars or covering up criminal activity (OSU) but a watch and a T-Shirt on some unidentified individuals which apparently they couldn’t even prove? I remember getting these types of items from participating in sports events in high school (T-shirt for just being involved, Watch for MVP type performances) – sort of rewards for a job well done. I hope GT did give the NCAA the middle finger on this one. And GT better appeal this, a bunch of programs have gotton by with much much worse infractions without having to vacate wins. I think that is a stupid punishment anyway, I will always know that GT won the ACC in 2009 and you can’t change history. Also I’d be shocked if Clemson didn’t have any similar infractions that season with all everything back CJ Spiller – they just didn’t get caught. This brings me to another point – how the hell does the NCAA find out about this stuff? I mean it didn’t sound like it was self reported. The fact that it was a second set of infractions in recent years doesn’t help things…but really how does this type of stuff give us an unfair advantange? Note to NCAA – it doesn’t, and you suck.

by tebz1123 on Jul 14, 2011 5:16 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs

With CJ Spiller

They don’t even have to find anything. If they just ask, and Clemson doesn’t get on their knees and…well, you know…then Clemson may have covered it up and that’s enough to start pulling out the red marker on the record books.

by acedarney on Jul 15, 2011 12:05 PM EDT up reply actions