And I need to add - the NCAA had to make up a violation that they have never used before USC nor after USC
They stated USC had lost control of their players which in their opinion is the most egregious violation of all.
Yet USC's football players had a much higher graduation rate than almost every SEC school (if not all).
They stated that USC's football players basically had pure freedom on campus yet I bet any SEC school had the same thing.
One of the things they kept citing was that stars and agents were allowed access to practices and games. However, that was NOT against any written rule.
I believe the NCAA should have told USC that this is not allowed anymore and to make it a written rule instead of punishing USC for it. But since they are not liable to any court, they basically said we can do whatever we want against you USC and we are going to give you basically just short of the death penalty that we gave to SMU.