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

Regarding academic fraud, it probably is time we don't require college players to enroll in classes and just show up to play football. Pay them a salary, no scholarship required, but they are on their own for housing, food, etc. Solves the problem of universities wanting to keep the players academically eligible so ESPN doesn't get pissy about college superstars missing a game because they didn't pass a class.

Seriously, we know this is why professors get persuaded to keep the players eligible. Gotta keep ESPN happy and thus the NCAA happy.

It's not too difficult to pay players a salary and come up with a system in which a player commits to a college football team, doesn't have to enroll as a student, but gets told if they wish to enroll in an NCAA college, it has to be the one they play for, even if they take online courses. Oh, and they are responsible for tuition -- if they want to use the salary they get to pay for it, fine. But no scholarship unless it's academic in nature.

Enough with saying "we care about academics" when we know darn well how upset ESPN would be if "insert star player here" doesn't get to play in the headliner game because he got an F in a class. The NCAA just needs to admit they are a business and are not about academics in the slightest.

 

A document made its way into public about Stanford's "easy" professors not too long ago. Kind of the dirty little secret of the football revival, that Harbaugh got them to loosen it up quite a bit. They still don't take complete idiots, but they have brought down the standards.

 

If you do this, there is no reason on earth for the team to be affiliated with a university in the first place.

 

All this does is tell me that it's true.

 

A hundred years ago, that was true. Now, it's the university that has the facilities and the infrastructure in place. At this point, I'm OK with keeping minor league football associated with the university, and having it be a moneymaker and possibly a selling point for recruiting potential students. I just hate like hell that so many of these guys are taking up seats in classes, when people who might actually want to be there aren't getting admitted because these guys are in the way.

 

Apparently, Thayer Evans went to the Don Yeager school of interviewing ... no notes, no recorder.
http://thebiglead.com/2013/09/11/former-oklahoma-state-qb-discussed-strange-interview-with-sis-thayer-evans/

 

Hmmmm. What will Pogi say if and when the recording surfaces?

 

Depends on what the recording says.

 

Everyone who didn't go to college for sex, drugs and money please leave the internet.

 

Translation: "It was Miles and all those Honey Badgers he recruits. And there's a statute of limitation on that. Nothing to see now. Our players are good, smart, chaste and church-going. Oue coaches are saints. Go bust LSU and tell Leonard Fournette we have a scholarship for him here in Stillwater. And a hostess or four. And a tutor. And a job for dad."

 

Well he did say "if they were recording it" or "if they recorded the interview" a couple of times in the Tulsa World story so I imagine he'll continue to say he never saw a tape recorder.

And it's entirely plausible that the interview wasn't recorded. Evans wouldn't be the first reporter not to tape his interviews. That doesn't prove anything either way though.

 

Nope, not at all. But some people seem only too ready to believe, without fail, the guy who is uncomfortable about his role in a story that's not to his liking.