[Farm93]

The whole thing is weird, but once you clearly embrace cheating as the way to go I guess this can happen. The SC community clearly sees the program as a victim in the Bush/Mayo/McKnight/et al. thing.  A culture where cheating is seen as OK is not going to be stopped by a few people in a compliance department.

After learning more about SC's football selection process I think it is perfectly reasonable to believe that the manager thought they were doing something to help Barkley.  Barkley liked these 6, but wished they were a bit easier to grip, etc.  I (we) will fix that later. 

Given that the kickers are not involved in the ball selection, and no one was planning on punting or kicking FGs I would have to believe the manager (and those that helped him with his decision) believed they were helping Barkley, Woods and Lee.  Though, for the record, I am with Kiffin that the inconsistency ball to ball and vs the practice inflation pressure would be detrimental to winning.

At Stanford I suspect that type of cheating could be an infraction worthy of getting removed from campus, but Stanford has a different view on cheating than SC.

[Farm93]

The whole thing is weird, but once you clearly embrace cheating as the way to go I guess this can happen. The SC community clearly sees the program as a victim in the Bush/Mayo/McKnight/et al. thing.  A culture where cheating is seen as OK is not going to be stopped by a few people in a compliance department.

After learning more about SC's football selection process I think it is perfectly reasonable to believe that the manager thought they were doing something to help Barkley.  Barkley liked these 6, but wished they were a bit easier to grip, etc.  I (we) will fix that later. 

Given that the kickers are not involved in the ball selection, and no one was planning on punting or kicking FGs I would have to believe the manager (and those that helped him with his decision) believed they were helping Barkley, Woods and Lee.  Though, for the record, I am with Kiffin that the inconsistency ball to ball and vs the practice inflation pressure would be detrimental to winning.

At Stanford I suspect that type of cheating could be an infraction worthy of getting removed from campus, but Stanford has a different view on cheating than SC.