top-tier athletes and shady wheelin-and-money-dealin agents have been so prevalent in the culture of college football lately, that I assume most of these highly talented athletes have all accepted gifts/money at one point in their young career
you haven't been the first to suggest Patrick Peterson has taken gifts
as for the cheating on the ACT test, when have these caliber of high school athletes have not received preferential treatment in the classrooms? it sounds like Pander Bear, yourself, and myself have at least taken classes or been around our favored colleges (UGA, Miami (FL), and tOSU respectively). during these classes it pains me to see those highly touted athletes, who most certainly skipped through Admissions, while I had to actually try on the SAT/ACTs and work my way up to being accepted
these reasons are why I assume that the average NFL-bound college player has committed many NCAA infractions. I know this thought is pessimistic, but it seems that both the NFL and college football take massive lunges into the shady bowels and the depraved underbelly that has grown plump and well-fed ever since the sport of football became more about the money associated, than the actual sport itself
Great post. Additionally, many things that are defined as NCAA infractions should not be. They should do away with all these bullshit secondary infractions such as texting rules and focus on a select number of infractions we can all agree are unfair.
To answer Pander, LSU boosters of course. That program will be corrupt no matter who is running it.
As to your other point, there most definitely should be a paper trail. We'll see if the NCAA investigates this and it ever comes to anything. Until that happens, I will always look like a bullshitter and I am ok with that. Most people who say shit like this on the internet are bullshitting anyways, you have absolutely no reason to believe me unless you really trust me. I'm not privy to "inside information" on a regular basis anyways, and I only learned about this because everybody on the Miami staff lost it in the heat of the moment, and therefore this guy did too. But he would not make something up, I promise you that. He was not playing politician, he simply shared this to me, my brother, and a couple other people in confidence.
From what I understand, one of the reasons this was such a big deal to the staff was because of how out in the open it was. They were amazed that a program could get away with this and that the NCAA would do absolutely nothing about it. The Meyer thing could always just be Meyer being Meyer. He has a reputation for reporting schools for bullshit to deflect attention away from himself, so says the UM staff (publicly).
I also don't dislike the kid or hold a grudge against him. I wish he could have been a Cane, but shit happens. He is an incredible player who will have a lot of success in the NFL. He just took some money, he didn't kill anyone.
Now that I have shared I will not whine about it any further, unless I am making fun of LSU of course
I am so glad I stopped following recruiting. It is nice to know who your starting quaterback is going to be 2 years in advance, but it is just too much drama and personal shit about athletes I don't even want to know. Grown ass men stalking kids facebook pages trying to convince them to go to such and such school. It begins to get creepy. It is nice to have followed for a couple of years just to see what it is all about though.
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