Wow. It's difficult to keep up with everything going on in college sports right now, especially if you're in Australia. If it's not scandals or impending scandals, it's conference realignment or realignment speculation. I'm not sure about you, but my head is spinning.
But we need to stop the madness for a second and look beyond the chaos to a glaring underlying problem: the tremendous greed driving it all. It's in every nook and cranny, and it's reaching fever pitch. The whole system is about to topple, much like the greed-fueled American economy just before the Great Depression.
Taylor Branch, of the magazine Atlantic Monthly, wrote a must-read cover story entitled "The Shame of College Sports." It's enlightening, it's eye-opening, it's scary, and it's such must-read for a follower of college sports that I don't want you to read this blog this week. I want you to click here and spend a valuable 30 minutes looking behind the curtain.
As you go, here are the quick picks:
1) Oklahoma State 44, Texas A&M 41
2) Alabama 31, Arkansas 14
3) LSU 33, West Virginia 17
4) Oklahoma 45, Missouri 21
5) Florida State 27, Clemson 20
6) Ohio State 23, Colorado 13
7) Arizona State 24, USC 20
8) Oregon 34, Arizona 28
9) Miami (FL) 26, Kansas State 10
10) Notre Dame 31, Pittsburgh 27
11) Michigan 35, San Diego State 28
12) Georgia Tech 34, North Carolina 20
13) Virginia 20, Southern Miss 17
14) Cincinnati 38, N.C. State 27
15) Washington 28, California 20
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As I can't stand reading something that long, I just read a page and a half of the grueling 7 pages. I must admit, the guy is right! It was a great 1.5 pages, and it's just amazing to me that guys like Trent Richardson, Rob Bolden, and Michael Floyd can't get benefits. Some of the rules that are with the NCAA are just stupid. Espescially if the Ohio state guys want to exchange some of the things they OWN for some tats, what's the big deal? Or, if A.J. Green wants to autograph HIS OWN Independence Bowl jersey for a certain amount, why not? These are things these guys OWN, so why can't they do what they wish with it? I could sell my Wii to anyone and not suffer any penalties, because I OWN the thing. Yet, a college athlete couldn't do the same thing? Although, the ONLY thing I could see wrong with paying athletes is this: if a kid was getting recruited by BYU, Boise State, TCU, Penn State, and Georgia, would the kid receive more if he went to Penn State or Georgia than if he went to Boise or BYU? The competitive advantage a Georgia or Penn State would have in that kind of situation would just make it completely unfair. Anyway, hope you and your family is doing well in Aussie! Enjoy your last 8-10 weeks there before you come home!
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