It's just amazing that GT fans cannot read between the lines, but we are Engineers and tend to be 100% literal. Reading some it should have gone like this:
Coach: Yeah, hey you 2 guys can't practice and can't play in the biggest game of the year. Go sit in your dorm.
Players: Why coach?
Coach: No particular reason.
Team: Hey coach, where's our two top players?
Coach: Dorm room
Team Why?
Caoch: No particular reason. By the way don't talk to them at all about anything. Nothing to see here, move along.
The country has lost its minds. We can no longer discern rght from wrong. The NCAA should have told GT, this is an extremely minor infraction not even worth anything other than a note from us to you telling you relatives are not eligible to give kids ANYTHING. They should have cleared the players out of hand for practice, playing in the game, etc.
You don't go firing or suspending your top performers at work because they forgot to refill the coffee pot. Just idiotic on so many levels particularly when you have so many major infractions going unpunished. Cars, drugs, hookers, homes, cash, jobs, etc all being given to players and families. Nothing got done, but wham those T-shirts. That there is worthy of a huge penalty. Add that to taking Physics instead of Biology for a science course and the ensuing penalties we got. Universities have had entirely fake programs, damn near nothing happened. GT fans still apologizing to the NCAA for BS/imaginary rules being violated while everyone else cheats like crazy around us & gets off with nothing.