NCAA investigating Cam Newton

Exhibit A on why you never play for two schools in the same conference.

Now that Florida looks like it'll be making it to the SEC Championship Game, the flood of Newton stories has begun.

 

Crash, well put.

But where do you draw the line? College football is not going away. These kids are not going to the NFL when they are 18. So what do you do?

Do you allow them to be on the "staff" of the university if they choose not to go to class? Do they get paid like a custodian or like a professor? But then they could get fired as well or jump from employer to employer?

Does anyone really want to see the day where a university drops a $500,000 signing bonus on a HS kid?

 

They already can get fired. They can get cut from the teams and have their scholarships taken away on the coach's whim.

And with the way things are right now in college sports, I wouldn't have a problem if kids jumped from school to school. Coaches do it all the time and it's considered good business for them. Frankly, I think it's hypocritical that a kid has to sit out one or two seasons if they transfer, but a coach can coach right away.

And I don't want to see a university dropping a $500K signing bonus on a kid. That money should be spent on, you know, the actual students. But I wouldn't care if a local businessman did so. My only concern would be if you got some legitimately unsavory people (i.e. violent) involved.

Bottom line is, D-I football and men's basketball are businesses. Players should be allowed to treat it as a business, too. If the NCAA doesn't want them treating it like a business, then they shouldn't either. Make college sports revert to the Ivy League/D-III method.

That's the line. Either college sports are extracurricular activities, or they're businesses. The NCAA's chosen their line. And now, it's up to the players to grab their's.

 

So this guy from FoxSports, who broke the Newton cheating "story", is also the same person who wrote a column not long ago saying no one should vote for Newton JUST IN CASE these rumors happen to be proven one day between now and the year 2060. Not because anything has been proven, or even close to it. But JUST IN CASE.

Jesus. What a dope.

 

Nothing like this has ever happened outside the SEC.*

 

Don't tell USC that.

 

Don't tell Maurice Clarett that.

 

What I said . . . and the way it is, until otherwise demonstrated.

 

Interesting strategy. Is Florida leaking this so that Brantley wins the Heisman?