re: What, exactly, is required to initiate an NCAA investigation

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It's very true. The Big 12 has a lower core requirement than the SEC. Phil Loadholt who currently plays OT for oklahoma was an LSU committ, couldnt get cleared, switched to Okie and played his first year there. Happened with a few other as well.

Dez Bryant was a heavy LSU lean at one point in his recruitment, almost same situation.

The Big East is another with lower requirements as Mike Ford was a Bama committ, couldn't get in and switched to USF.

All conferences have to adhear to the NCAA minimums but many have a stronger requirements.

Sometimes member institutions even have stricter requirements than their conference requirements (Miami in the ACC)

It definately is true.

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For all practical purposes the SEC uses the minimum NCAA requirements for high school athletes just like the Big12. There is only a slightly higher requirement for what we use to call partial qualifiers, however, those guys can't get financial aid until their grades are good enough. Very few will fall in the difference and Pratt wasn't one of them. His is a Clearinghouse issue (i.e. verification), not his grade attainment. The SEC requirements for JC athletes are slightly higher than other conferences which created the problem with Loadholt. I think the problem was that he didn't take a certain required course that the Big12 didn't require. Someone else would have to verify this though.

The point is that there really isn't much difference in requirements, so no one should get the idea that the SEC is just a shade lower than the Ivy League in terms of academic requirements.

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For one, send credible information to a news source. I'm not saying the University would face the death penalty, but it would prolly be investigated.

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See USC....

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Nothing illegal about Pratt

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How on earth would you know this?

There is nothing illegal about changing your mind or having grade problems. Pratt had one of these.

Besides all the conjectue on Pratt, the reason less and less schools are being placed on probation is because college Football is a billion plus enterprise. The old ethics are becoming less and less scrutinized by the investigation committee.

If USC was put on probation what would happen to the west ern United states media market?
Well because of this very reason, so are so many other schools being ignored.

The death penalty is a thing of the past.