Hawkeyes vacating

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Who? Why would you talk about the piss birds at all? Do you want those fat cucks over here even more?
 

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Bigred2467

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The NCAA announced on April 14, 2026, that the Iowa Hawkeyes must vacate four 2023 football wins due to recruiting tampering violations involving quarterback Cade McNamara. The violations, which occurred in late 2022, involved impermissible contact by head coach Kirk Ferentz and assistant Jon Budmayr before McNamara officially entered the transfer portal.

The four wins to be vacated from the 2023 season are against Utah State, Iowa State, Western Michigan, and Michigan State.
 

Cjlemke21

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In all honesty if the NCAA wants to stop being a laughing stock then they have a lot more than Iowa to worry about with tampering. I’m quite sure almost every from the major conferences tamper. The NCAA needs to stop picking and choosing when to enforce rules or how to enforce rules…

I think Tampering should be punished, but only if it’s enforced evenly with all teams.
 

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They're going to smack Iowa for a recruiting violation?

Why WOULDN'T Iowa tamper? They probably watched Harbaugh tamper with everything under the sun and thought "damn, there's no actual, tangible penalty for that. Therefore, if we're not cheating, we're not keeping up".

Everything about the NCAA just sucks.

When they vacate a season or two from Michigan, and bar them from a postseason, they'll be taken seriously.
 

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Who cares? Everyone knows who won those games. Vacating wins is the most empty gesture in the history of "punishment." If Rhule could be so lucky as to commit violations that would result in 10 wins next year that would subsequently be vacated years later - GREAT, sign us up!
 

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I dislike Iowa fans- but admire their coaches and team results.

However what a joke the NCAA is picking on Iowa-, its like littering for them. When LSU and Mississippi are committing mass murder in comparison. The NCAA leaves the SEC and blue bloods alone for the most part.
Admiring 8 win seasons and not titles? Lame

Anyway...the NCAA is not the joke in this instance. iowa is the joke. They ratted on themselves. Those other schools are smart enough to know that the NCAA has no power if you don't tell them anything.
 

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In all honesty if the NCAA wants to stop being a laughing stock then they have a lot more than Iowa to worry about with tampering. I’m quite sure almost every from the major conferences tamper. The NCAA needs to stop picking and choosing when to enforce rules or how to enforce rules…

I think Tampering should be punished, but only if it’s enforced evenly with all teams.
It is enforced evenly. One word: evidence. The enforcement staff has to establish actual evidence that tampering occurred. Once proof is established, the case can be taken to the Infraction Committee to mete out penalties.

This type of case has nothing to do with Michigan or any other situation that doesn't involve players playing while ineligible. Vacation ONLY occurs when a student-athlete competes while ineligible. There was no ineligible participation in the Michigan case (contrast it with Reggie Bush/USC and Notre Dame's academic fraud case in which players participated after some slut did their homework). Once Iowa committed a rules violation in the recruitment of McNamara, the violation rendered him ineligible to play at Iowa (and only at Iowa). Therefore, any games he played in after being rendered ineligible and before his eligibility was restored have to be vacated.

Vacation is not an empty penalty. I worked for many years in college athletics. Coaches have huge egos. You take away wins based on violations they committed and they go crazy. Many vacation cases are appealed. If vacation was an empty penalty, there wouldn't be appeals.
 

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It is enforced evenly. One word: evidence. The enforcement staff has to establish actual evidence that tampering occurred. Once proof is established, the case can be taken to the Infraction Committee to mete out penalties.

This type of case has nothing to do with Michigan or any other situation that doesn't involve players playing while ineligible. Vacation ONLY occurs when a student-athlete competes while ineligible. There was no ineligible participation in the Michigan case (contrast it with Reggie Bush/USC and Notre Dame's academic fraud case in which players participated after some slut did their homework). Once Iowa committed a rules violation in the recruitment of McNamara, the violation rendered him ineligible to play at Iowa (and only at Iowa). Therefore, any games he played in after being rendered ineligible and before his eligibility was restored have to be vacated.

Vacation is not an empty penalty. I worked for many years in college athletics. Coaches have huge egos. You take away wins based on violations they committed and they go crazy. Many vacation cases are appealed. If vacation was an empty penalty, there wouldn't be appeals.
Did you happen to ever guest lecture at any B1G institutions? I sat in on one a few years ago, and this take brought up the memory of listening to him
 

Cjlemke21

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It is enforced evenly. One word: evidence. The enforcement staff has to establish actual evidence that tampering occurred. Once proof is established, the case can be taken to the Infraction Committee to mete out penalties.

This type of case has nothing to do with Michigan or any other situation that doesn't involve players playing while ineligible. Vacation ONLY occurs when a student-athlete competes while ineligible. There was no ineligible participation in the Michigan case (contrast it with Reggie Bush/USC and Notre Dame's academic fraud case in which players participated after some slut did their homework). Once Iowa committed a rules violation in the recruitment of McNamara, the violation rendered him ineligible to play at Iowa (and only at Iowa). Therefore, any games he played in after being rendered ineligible and before his eligibility was restored have to be vacated.

Vacation is not an empty penalty. I worked for many years in college athletics. Coaches have huge egos. You take away wins based on violations they committed and they go crazy. Many vacation cases are appealed. If vacation was an empty penalty, there wouldn't be appeals.
I completely agree with the eligibility issues you’re talking about, however Michigan, and pretty much every other school has ineligible players due to tampering. The biggest issue with anyone of us like you said with the evidence… but you and anyone else who would believe that tampering isn’t going on with almost every school is just blatantly ignoring the obvious and you’re part of that problem… head coaches at many schools have came out and complained about schools tampering with their players, players coming out saying schools contacted them, yet you never see the schools who are constantly competing receiver any kind of sanctions, even if it is vacating wins. The NCAA has turned a blind eye to cheating for a lot schools now for years. It is a corrupt governing agency that serves absolutely no purpose any more since it refuses to govern evenly.
 

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B1G loves to bring the hammer down on the little people while the titans get away with murder.

Disappointing.
 

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It is enforced evenly. One word: evidence. The enforcement staff has to establish actual evidence that tampering occurred. Once proof is established, the case can be taken to the Infraction Committee to mete out penalties.

This type of case has nothing to do with Michigan or any other situation that doesn't involve players playing while ineligible. Vacation ONLY occurs when a student-athlete competes while ineligible. There was no ineligible participation in the Michigan case (contrast it with Reggie Bush/USC and Notre Dame's academic fraud case in which players participated after some slut did their homework). Once Iowa committed a rules violation in the recruitment of McNamara, the violation rendered him ineligible to play at Iowa (and only at Iowa). Therefore, any games he played in after being rendered ineligible and before his eligibility was restored have to be vacated.

Vacation is not an empty penalty. I worked for many years in college athletics. Coaches have huge egos. You take away wins based on violations they committed and they go crazy. Many vacation cases are appealed. If vacation was an empty penalty, there wouldn't be appeals.
This is why Joe Pa got his vacated wins back that the NCAA took away in the initial ruling. No recruiting violations occurred or ineligible players were used in those games so they had no basis in their bylaws to hand out said punishment. As you say “ Vacated “ wins occur in only these situations.
 

suffocation_

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Don’t believe this punishment was handed out by the BIG .
This reads like they got ahead of it and basically let Iowa be the sacrificial lamb.

There is no way Iowa is the biggest offender in the conference, they routinely have a dogshitt roster comprised of players nobody else really wanted. In this case, a mediocre backup QB
 
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What does it matter?? Iowa loses 4 wins. The 12 team they played..... NOTHING NOTHING NOTHING changed. I'm a firm believer in the phrase, if you aint cheating, you aint tryin. Iowa currently OWNS nebraska. I want to see this change.
 

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Vacation is not an empty penalty. I worked for many years in college athletics. Coaches have huge egos. You take away wins based on violations they committed and they go crazy. Many vacation cases are appealed. If vacation was an empty penalty, there wouldn't be appeals.

Cute story, but you're dead wrong. The program on the whole; the fans, the bulk of the administration, the athletes, barely even feel a slight tweak to your record years late. Maybe the head coach has an issue with it because it might impact his resume directly, but to the MUCH bigger picture of the overall program, it's a tiny blip. Hell, USC barely felt it (when it was handed out seven years later) and that was a whole season with a National Championship, not just a handful of random games.

The only time the NCAA has ever handed out a penalty that had any real impact was the death penalty for SMU, which, by all accounts, will never be handed out again.