The act of a school sanctioning itself to prevent a more harsh reaction from NCAA investigators is almost as old as the NCAA's seedy investigations themselves. The idea is pretty simple: We'll slap our own wrist so that the NCAA does not come through and cut off our hand.
But USC on Sunday pretty much cut off its own hand in self-sanctions tied to the recruitment and treatment of O.J. Mayo.
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