College Sports Scandals

[LightningRod]

You hope the media frenzy spotlighting Colorado's scandal scares other schools into cleaning up their seamier enticements. The shock isn't how many college scandals have been exposed. The shock is how many haven't.

Is the exposition of these "scandals" the new wave for sportswriters seeking their 15 minutes of fame? Will Colorado's turn in the barrel have any effect on universities cleaning up the "seamier enticements" available in all college towns? A good article from Skip Bayless:

Just win, baby!

From one of ESPN's Sports Reporters, Jason Whitlock (a former Wolverwine nonetheless - so this is Ann Arbor):

Anyone surprised that sex and booze are being used as tools to lure young male athletes to college campuses is too naive to be reading this newspaper. Anyone surprised that Division I football and basketball programs have used those sex and booze tools in extreme and highly unethical ways fails to recognize that big-time athletics are nothing more than big-time business corporations.

Barnett is not to blame

 

[BoxCar_Willie]

Actually whitlock went to Ball State and played football

 

[LightningRod]

Whitlock was at Ball State - for some reason I thought he was at Michigan. He wrote for an Ann Arbor paper and always appeared to be a Wolverine. My bad.

 

[Basebuck]

He also writes for a paper in St. Louis I believe.
The only thing I have to say about these articles is duhhh!
Every 18 year old male in the country has dreams of going to college and getting layed and partying. The coaches are not the ones taking these kids to parties. Potential teamates are assigned to a recruit and they do what that person usually does on a weekend. I hate to say it but at many colleges the fb players are the "cool" kids and get chicks. How is this a bad thing for an 18 year old male?

 

[BayBuck]

Some things never change...