Posted on 06/14/2010 7:15:28 PM PDT by Bad~Rodeo
USC football is about Cardinal and Gold. The Trojan Horse. The Coliseum. The words “Fight On.
There are now new words to describe its football program.
Arrogance. Ignorance. Tolerance. Sanctioned.
Pick any word and it probably fits the USC football program these days. But there’s another one that should be considered: Lawsuit
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You can shape it, paint it, mold it any way you want if you are USC. You were betrayed by star running back Reggie Bush. You were tampered with by outside influences. You were ambushed by one of your own assistant coaches, who knew but did not tell.
And now your football program is going to go into the hell of probation, at probably the worst time to be in trouble, as your conference gears up to be a megapower. Pac 10 football is likely to be 16 teams strong, as your program grows weaker. USC will not be in the future, what it used to be in the past.
The 66-page NCAA list of allegations and sanctions was not fiction writing. It was fact. It was 13 months of illegal payments and benefits, 13 months of lies and coverups, and 13 months of excellence on the football field stained by secrecy and sleaziness.
The story is out there for the world to see. Bush, his stepfather and his mother, with their hands out, taking payoffs and gifts, during his glory run to the Heisman Trophy and the run into the USC record books. Crowds of 92,000 on Saturdays, huge victories, conference titles, and the magical BCS games against Texas, Oklahoma, and more. We won’t see that in the near future.
And now we find after the fact, some $300,000 plus in illegal payments. Living in a luxury house in Spring Valley for 13 months without
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I've always wondered why they just don't drop the charade and pay these kids to play without all the razzmatazz..
For years OSU would pay Football players to "guard the water cooler" or some other ridiculous job. Every program does in one way or another why not just do it and be done with this crap?
I don't know if that would work. If the players were employees instead of students, would you still cheer for your alma mater? Might as well watch the NFL if you want to see pros.
Besides, there's that "slippery slope" argument. High School athletics would be next, and pretty soon you got ringers in your son's T-ball league...
So what’s the big deal?
The just announced conference re alignment deals; show that the universities are only focused on the money.
That is the ONLY factor involved for many of them.
How are they any better than Mr Bush?
Been there...
Done that...
Uploaded to youtube...
In a tiny little school in a tiny little town here in Southern Ohio a Coach got hammered for bringing in kids from a foreign country to Play Basketball (and for paying them to do so.)
The Coach got a slap on the wrists by claiming he knew nothing of the deal these foreign players had with their agents.
Yet these two kids worked and got paid in the town by the Coach's family. OK "worked" is a stretch. The family business is an insurance company. They supposedly worked there yet they hire out there janitorial stuff and no one saw them inside the business except to pick up their checks. Ans I am fairly sure they never passed the insurance exam to sell insurance here in Ohio. [wink]
(For some reason the "work" portion of the deal never made the papers locally but everyone in the town knew it. I live close to that town and go to the games where it was discussed openly by folks sitting in the bleachers during breaks in the action.)
I don't at all agree with such because these ringers were brought in to win games and these kids took the place of kids whose families live here and pay the taxes for the schools.
Ahh but don't you see? The clear answer here is something we have been taught for several years.
this mess is all...
wait for it...
wait for it...
Bush's fault!
(Sorry I couldn't resist...)
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