Miami Hurricanes Football Scandal: How Should USC Trojan Fans Feel?

In what can only be appreciated for its cathartic value, Trojan fans should be rejoicing at the news of the new booster impropriety scandal currently being investigated at the "U."

Now before anyone thinks that finding joy at another program's hardship is wrong, don't worry—that's not it at all.

In fact, college football and its fans' hearts should go out to beleaguered Hurricane fans, who, after all, had nothing to do with anything that may have gone on at Miami.

Although nothing has been proven—and given that the NCAA will be running the investigation, this could take years (literally)—there is a possibility that, when all is said and done, Miami could be in for some hard days ahead.

That is a shame for those who follow the program.

No, this is about the NCAA, Trojan fans and the continual embarrassment they heap on themselves.

As you may remember, the NCAA's lead guy in the USC investigation was former Miami athletic director Paul Dee, who oversaw the Hurricane program when it was heavily sanctioned by the NCAA in 1995 for Pell Grant fraud.

For USC fans, it seemed ludicrous that Dee would sit in judgment of their program.

Nonetheless, Dee had his meaty paw right in the thick of the ruling against the Trojans.

Now comes a Miami Hurricane scandal that features an allegation that a former booster provided thousands of illegal benefits to players, and coaches knew about it.

These "gifts" were allegedly given away in the years from 2002 until 2010.

Um, guess who the Miami athletic director was until 2008?

That's right.

Paul Dee.

Could it get any worse for the NCAA?

The guy it put in charge to sit in judgment of USC not only presided over one of the worst scandals ever in college football in 1995; now it appears that he might have sat and idly watched for seven years or more while players took literally millions in illegal gifts.

Unbelievable.

For fans of the men of Troy, at least you can take solace that the governing body of college football has embarrassed itself once again.

Whether or not it is capable of knowing this is a matter of conjecture, and even if it does, there is little chance it will do anything to fix the problem.

Probably the best solution is to rearrange college football and start over without the NCAA, as suggested by Bill N in his recent article.

In the meantime, all Trojan fans can do is shake their heads and wonder at the injustice of it all.

Click here to see how I wrote about this on the Miami homepage.