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What's the NCAA penalty for making a $25,000 payment to someone who runs a scouting service because he had a personal connection to a recruit?

If it's the University at Oregon football program, it gets three years of probation, and its former coach -- Chip Kelly -- gets slapped with an 18-month show-cause order because the NCAA felt he didn't do a good job of monitoring the program.

Of course, Kelly doesn't have to worry about the show-cause order. As long as he does his job as the Philaldephia Eagles head coach for the next three years, he'll be gainfully employed and free from looking for work at the collegiate level again.

Oregon also gets off relatively easy. It gets to play in a bowl game, it loses only one scholarship per year and it can't make as many official paid visits as it used to (from 57 to 36) for the length of its probation.

Basically, the punishment is like water off a Duck's back. Oregon gets reprimanded for the infraction and is allowed to continue being an elite Pac-12 team. Chip Kelly gets to coach an NFL team. The NCAA is satisfied because it did something.

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