AfiPoke
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Not sure if everyone has been keeping up with all the hubbub out there lately over the crap going on with college football.
It's pretty incredible really. As of today, it seems:
1) Cam Newton was involved in the Miss St stuff.
2) Oregon pays recruiting firms. I imagine there are many others as well.
3) The Ohio State players selling their shiznit and the Sweater may have known about it.
I am in my forties and I remember some of the less savory things from the 80's and 90's that went on (Osborne keeping the sexual predator on the team at Nebraska jumps out at me). However, nothing like we see today. I can only surmise the internet, blogs, message boards, twitter, facebook et al...have helped to illuminate this stuff.
The NCAA has basically become the United Nations for college sports. Lots of lofty goals, very little real action. I'm not sure it has any authority (moral or otherwise) to run college athletics?
How do you right the ship? If you take away the tax exempt status, it punishes little schools and will give fuel to the 'We should be paying our players now!' lobby. I don't see how a playoff system helps with the lack of ethical behavior being exhibited currently by players, coaches, boosters, administrations, and 'agents'.
Personally, I think college football has grown too fast, too quickly and nobody really has an idea of how to corral all the horses running wild.
Anyone have an idea of how to fix it? Or, is it simply a case of having to accept it as is?
It makes my gorge rise. :x
It's pretty incredible really. As of today, it seems:
1) Cam Newton was involved in the Miss St stuff.
2) Oregon pays recruiting firms. I imagine there are many others as well.
3) The Ohio State players selling their shiznit and the Sweater may have known about it.
I am in my forties and I remember some of the less savory things from the 80's and 90's that went on (Osborne keeping the sexual predator on the team at Nebraska jumps out at me). However, nothing like we see today. I can only surmise the internet, blogs, message boards, twitter, facebook et al...have helped to illuminate this stuff.
The NCAA has basically become the United Nations for college sports. Lots of lofty goals, very little real action. I'm not sure it has any authority (moral or otherwise) to run college athletics?
How do you right the ship? If you take away the tax exempt status, it punishes little schools and will give fuel to the 'We should be paying our players now!' lobby. I don't see how a playoff system helps with the lack of ethical behavior being exhibited currently by players, coaches, boosters, administrations, and 'agents'.
Personally, I think college football has grown too fast, too quickly and nobody really has an idea of how to corral all the horses running wild.
Anyone have an idea of how to fix it? Or, is it simply a case of having to accept it as is?
It makes my gorge rise. :x
