SI investigative report on OK ST football...

[bisonaudit]

... full of completely unsurprising revelations.

Amaturism is a joke.

[bisonmike2]

if it's true.

http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post...Evans/11-22173

[bisonaudit]

if it's true.

http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post...Evans/11-22173

I don't care if its true. As far as I'm concerned the point isn't whether or how OK ST may or may not have cheated. The point is that the amaturism rules and the NCAA are a total farce. Who give a shit about paying a guy $25,000 when 67 basketball games generate $800 million and 3 football games generate $500 million for the NCAA and its members. It's un-American and it needs to end.

[BadlandsBison]

I don't care if its true. As far as I'm concerned the point isn't whether or how OK ST may or may not have cheated. The point is that the amaturism rules and the NCAA are a total farce. Who give a shit about paying a guy $25,000 when 67 basketball games generate $800 million and 3 football games generate $500 million for the NCAA and its members. It's un-American and it needs to end.

Start a petition and write your local congressman

[bisonmike2]

I don't care if its true. As far as I'm concerned the point isn't whether or how OK ST may or may not have cheated. The point is that the amaturism rules and the NCAA are a total farce. Who give a shit about paying a guy $25,000 when 67 basketball games generate $800 million and 3 football games generate $500 million for the NCAA and its members. It's un-American and it needs to end.

I agree and I think that's a point made in the story I linked. Personally I think the clock is ticking on the NCAA and it's only a matter of time before it gets blown up (figuratively).

[Mayville Bison]

if it's true.

http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post...Evans/11-22173

I'm not sure if I should reply with
A) This guy is so jealous he didn't "break" a story like this and is covering it up by saying it happens everywhere
B) ESPN (Whitlock's employer) is just pushing for a split from the NCAA because the NCAA is the big bad "mafia"
C) Something very personal (ie. Evans slept with his wife, Evans got promoted and Whitlock didn't, etc.)
D) Who cares?
E) Why are we still talking about UN_ in the Football forum?

[bisonmike2]

I'm not sure if I should reply with
A) This guy is so jealous he didn't "break" a story like this and is covering it up by saying it happens everywhere
B) ESPN (Whitlock's employer) is just pushing for a split from the NCAA because the NCAA is the big bad "mafia"
C) Something very personal (ie. Evans slept with his wife, Evans got promoted and Whitlock didn't, etc.)
D) Who cares?
E) Why are we still talking about UN_ in the Football forum?

F) All of the Above

[KSBisonFan]

I'm not sure if I should reply with
A) This guy is so jealous he didn't "break" a story like this and is covering it up by saying it happens everywhere
B) ESPN (Whitlock's employer) is just pushing for a split from the NCAA because the NCAA is the big bad "mafia"
C) Something very personal (ie. Evans slept with his wife, Evans got promoted and Whitlock didn't, etc.)
D) Who cares?
E) Why are we still talking about UN_ in the Football forum?

Whitlock is a raging idiot. He'll add his $.02 into anything if it gets him some exposure and allows him to run his pie hole. Come to think of it, I knew that before reading his spew.

[bisonaudit]

I agree and I think that's a point made in the story I linked. Personally I think the clock is ticking on the NCAA and it's only a matter of time before it gets blown up (figuratively).

Whitlock's shots at the writer are a little over the top but I'm in complete agreement with him on the state of the NCAA and the wrong headedness of this story.

Johnny Football had a shot to be a hero in this nonsense. He could have stood up, given the lie to the whole endevour, and replaced Ed O'Bannon as the face of the resistance.

[bisonaudit]

Yahoo has a story now about improper benefits for 5 SEC players, also completely unsurprising. When are these stories going to stop being about the players and start being about the NCAA and it's stupid rules that make criminals out of kids instead of the cartel exploiting them.