Cincinnati Bearcats (Juggalos official thread of Faygo)

[ORD_Buckeye]

The NCAAA should get no credit whatsoever. They could've made rules and guidelines on payments to players in the 1970's and chose to keep the free labor model and act like the players were "student athletes". They caused this vacuum and expected the US government to fix the mess they created. And when it didn't happen things only got worse based on their ineptness. They knew programs were paying players for decades and chose to turn a blind eye or give a slap on a wrist, but then turn around and harshly punish a team who's players sold their memorabilia for tattoos

That's not why we were punished, and you know it. We were punished because the head coach learned about it, covered it up to keep those players eligible and then lied about to both the ncaa and the university.

Had he forwarded the email to the university and let them notify the ncaa, the players would have sat out some games, the program would have gone unpunished and Tressel would have been celebrated for actually embodying the integrity that he so cynically tried to promote himself as representing.

 

[pnuts34]

That's not why we were punished, and you know it. We were punished because the head coach learned about it, covered it up to keep those players eligible and then lied about to both the ncaa and the university.

Had he forwarded the email to the university and let them notify the ncaa, the players would have sat out some games, the program would have gone unpunished and Tressel would have been celebrated for actually embodying the integrity that he so cynically tried to promote himself as representing.

Yeah, and that's not as bad as coseches literally paying kids in duffle bags and McDonalds and you know it. Tress lying and covering should've still not gotten the punishment that many other schools did for far worse offenses. My point is the NCAA picked and chose what punishments to dole out without any clear reasoning. scUM had a massive sign stealing scandal and nothing happened to the team other than the coach was suspended for a few meaningless games, which was worse? UNC had a cheating scandal where tutors were writing papers and taking tests for athletes, and the punishment, NOTHING! But Tress lying about tattoos, and trying to cover it up(which every coach has done when accused) gets a far worse punishment... It makes no sense and you know it

 

[Zurp]

That's not why we were punished, and you know it.

It makes no sense and you know it

You both know the real reason he got fired: he had uncovered the secret that Joe Paterno was covering for a child molester. When he approached JoePa, saying that he would leak the entire thing through his puppet, Mike McQueary, JoePa karate-chopped Tressell's wife and threatened to parade her through the streets wearing nothing but an Easter Bunny outfit. Tressell wasn't about to let JoePa win, and used his druidic powers to call upon the ancient spirits of the land. They slapped him in the face for trying to blackmail JoePa in the first place. With the last of his strength, Tressell started the reactor, releasing all the oxygen trapped in the Martian polar ice caps.
It wasn't the worst movie ever, but I wouldn't take a date to that movie, if you want to score afterwards. 6.5/10.