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Defensewins · 06-03-2011, 01:01 PM

College football is a joke and is a big mess. Between the BCS bowl system, the good ole boy bowl committees and its crazy rules, don't blame one guy for this supposed 'huge scandal'. I have been reading more about this so called 'huge scandal'. Yes, rules were broken but this is not a grade fixing or test cheating scandal about eligibility. Players were not caught taking steroids. OSU players did not gang raped a girl and the team and school covered it up.
The players sold rings and other memorabilia that was GIVEN to them. Since when do you GIVE a gift to someone with rules of you can not sell the gift? The rules in college sports and amateur sports are joke especially when you think about the large amount of money college football generates for the NCAA and the Schools...while at the same time some of these kids come from poor families. I was a poor college student once. There were days I barely had money to get something healthy to eat.
Add to this the crazy NFL rule that a player has to be a certain age to play this game in the NFL. This was done to make the NCAA happy and allow scouts free access to the campus' and keep them happy.
It is so easy for some to demonize the players and coaches.
Are academic scholarship students in college under the same set of rules?

06-03-2011, 01:01 PM	#12
Defensewins Playmaker Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Houston, Texas Posts: 3,765	Re: If Pryor entered the supplemental draft would you pick him. College football is a joke and is a big mess. Between the BCS bowl system, the good ole boy bowl committees and its crazy rules, don't blame one guy for this supposed 'huge scandal'. I have been reading more about this so called 'huge scandal'. Yes, rules were broken but this is not a grade fixing or test cheating scandal about eligibility. Players were not caught taking steroids. OSU players did not gang raped a girl and the team and school covered it up. The players sold rings and other memorabilia that was GIVEN to them. Since when do you GIVE a gift to someone with rules of you can not sell the gift? The rules in college sports and amateur sports are joke especially when you think about the large amount of money college football generates for the NCAA and the Schools...while at the same time some of these kids come from poor families. I was a poor college student once. There were days I barely had money to get something healthy to eat. Add to this the crazy NFL rule that a player has to be a certain age to play this game in the NFL. This was done to make the NCAA happy and allow scouts free access to the campus' and keep them happy. It is so easy for some to demonize the players and coaches. Are academic scholarship students in college under the same set of rules?