SI: Oklahoma State football players got sex, drugs and money

Well, I guess it'd be pretty easy to prove if there was a recording. It couldn't be proved a recorder was in his line of sight though.

 

Where the ATM really does come into play?

 

It's not surprising given how many people live in a world of denial about whatever team or athlete they happen to worship.

Or any celebrity for that matter. Just look at Michael Jackson fans.

 

Notice how the discussion started with "OMG, this was going on at a major D1 university?"; then went with "No way, writer has got an axe to grind because he used to be an OU writer (while completely ignoring the facts presented)"; and now its "oh well, you're surprised? Get over it, happens everywhere."

The major point is whether society will or will not continue to stand for, or finance, this fraud. Major college athletics is not about the innocent, unpaid, student-athlete who just happens to play sports for the gold ole university while taking a break from his/her academic studies. The major universities are leveraging the $$$ spent on athletics in hopes of generating a profit and securing increased exposure and prestige for the university.

 

And your point is...what?

 

Did Pickens mean to say "isn't?"

 

There's really not.

 

In a 20,000 student university do the guys on the football team really keep out that many deserving students? Has insert star player here ever missed an ESPN game for getting an F in class? Don't watch Gameday every single week, but I don't think there's too many weeks where they have to worry about someone missing a game due to grades.

 

At the Browns complex today Brandon Weeden said the sources for this story are all players dismissed for behavior problems...and also said the reporter is a Sooner backer that always was trying to stir up trouble in Stillwater.
I think he should focus more on reading defenses and less on reading SI stories.

 

Where did Charles Robinson attend school and why is he biased against the SEC?

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ncaaf--ties-between-former-alabama-player-and-agents-documented-by-text-messages-203153323.html

 

I don't recall anybody saying no way. It would be irresponsible to ignore this guy has been an OU homer unless he had delivered some air tight evidence. A bunch of guys dismissed from the team (or disgruntled but stayed the course) with some stories that could be corroborated with a paper trail but were not is hardly an OMG report. Had this exact story come out somewhere less reputable than SI, there would be nowhere near the traction.

All that being said, I don't doubt most of this stuff was going on at some level at the school, I just wish someone with the chops to bring it home adequately had done so.

 

You ever hear of workman's comp? Do you realize just how much legal liability universities avoid by classifying (or rather, for now, being allowed to classify) football as an extra-curricular activity?