Well, with what has been happening to these college football programs the last year in seems as if there have been more headlines off the field instead of on the field. It all started last year after the NCAA decided to rule on USC after the whole Reggie Bush receiving benefits that included a house and whatever else from the Southern Cal. The scandals went into the Basketball team of some players receiving monetary benefits that forced the university to fire their coach. Meanwhile, in Football side Pete Carroll instead of stepping down and admitting that there was any wrongdoing, hightailed out of USC and went back into the NFL and took the Seattle Seahawks head coaching job. USC was put on a 2 year bowl ban and they would have 30 scholarships taken away (10 each for next 3 years).
Win a lot then leave the ship when its' sinking! :P
O, but after last year it doesn't stop there. At North Carolina, at least 12 football players were suspended for the first few games for breaking NCAA rules many of which pertained to them getting help from tutors illegally. 6 of those were most likely heading towards the NFL. It got so bad for the program that after this year and into the summer, coach Butch Davis was fired.
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| Also Failed as the Cleveland Browns Coach :P |
http://dmoneystwocents.blogspot.com/2011/03/were-tattoos-worth-it-buckeyes.html
http://dmoneystwocents.blogspot.com/2011/04/should-tressel-get-fired-resign-or-stay.html
Well as time passed, Tressel was forced to resign as the Buckeyes Head Coach and Luke Fickel has taken over the duties. They have even dealt with star QB Terrell Pryor, one of the Tattoo Five whose gotten a lot of attention directed to himself in a bad way since he was suspended, leaving Ohio State and heading to the NFL via the Supplemental Draft. How successful Pryor will be remains to be seen. What we do know is that NCAA will not hit Ohio State with a failure to monitor and it seems they cooperated with the NCAA and the hearing 2 weeks ago seemed to go well. It looks like maybe the NCAA will accept Ohio State's self imposed punishment of erasing the 2010 season and probation for 2 years or more, but that remains to be seen in the next few weeks.
There have other types of scandals and stories involving other teams as well. West Virginia just had a problem with their coaches. Bill Stewart, the recent coach, wanted to dig up some dirt on the new upcoming coach Dana Holgorsen and it caused him to resign and Holgorsen to take over. One of LSU's position coaches was caught up in a recruiting scandal and resigned and LSU put some inposed sanacations on their program but not where they wouldn't be hurt. Two west coast universites are also in the news with Oregon's Chip Kelly being looked into possible recruiting violations that involves a scout.
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news;_ylt=AuWXILTEhxqIqoJDbD8HHTY7MuB_?slug=ys-robinson_scout_details_deal_oregon_kelly_070111
Boise State, everyone's media darling, their sport programs have been hit with trouble forcing them to fire their Athletic Director. It seems with all of this craziness that you would have heard enough, well wrong. Last week as we heard the University of Miami's troubles make everyone else's including Ohio State's seem like a slap on the wrist. Here's the link with the coverage.
http://sports.yahoo.com/investigations/news;_ylt=AjSbGC.qgru9RvZQQS.r_uM7MuB_?slug=dw-wetzel_miami_scandal_scene_081711
http://sports.yahoo.com/investigations/news;_ylt=ArRtOWUxZz5UoiPDoXXgfGA7MuB_?slug=cr-renegade_miami_booster_details_illicit_benefits_081611
Apparently, in these articles pertains to the investigation brought upon a former Miami booster who is now serving 20 years in for a $930 million dollar Pozzi Scheme, and his role in providing almost everything to star players. These included, VIP parties, cash, entertainment, strippers, prostituties, jewerly, cash bounties for taking out opposing players, fancy restaurants, and travel. It even included how he once payed for an abortion for a stripper who was inpreganted by one of the players!! This all occured during 2002-10 when he was a booster and he said that coaches from the Basketball and Football programs knew about it. Pretty shocking, huh?! It would be shocking if at least over half of this turned out to be true. Now everyone is thinking Miami is going to be given the Death Penalty by the NCAA. This is very rare and it was given to only five universities sport programs. The most famous one being SMU's Football Program which it has now taken them almost 25 years to recover from.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMU_football_scandal
Now, with all of these scandals and teams moving from one conference to other another I think it's almost time for this season to begin. Many teams are trying to one up each other in order to keep up with the Jones' per say. Even if it means at a cost to bend the rules. Now, the NCAA is out of the woods in this blog. I think with what has been going on the NCAA needs to step up and enforce or intrepret their rules much better. Now, I don't think giving these players a stipend is not going to solve things. It could make things worse. These football players are already getting their education, room, board and what not taking care of. There are many student-athletes, and students going to school and having a part time job that work hard and pay for their education without a schlorship.
I went to a Division III school, I could have been good enough to run for a Div II school or even a Div I Mid American Conference school but either my grades weren't good enough or I didn't get noticed. Not that I totally regreted my decision, I still made life long friends, got a good education, ran great for a Div III runner, and I was very blessed to have parents that support my education. There are those who do not have that luxury. These schlorship football players don't see what they got. They want the rewards now instead of later.
Anyway, the NCAA I bet is working on something. The best way could be to have schools enforce their complaince offices and have workers that look into their athletics more often and prevent some of these things from happening. Hopefully, this season we can enjoy the games much more without having to hear about more schools getting into possible trouble with the NCAA.
I'm D-Money and that's my Two Cents!!!
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