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College Football 2015-16: Bowls, Playoffs, and Offseason
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RaceBoarder
Waiting for the Snow to fly...
Re: College Football 2015-16: Bowls, Playoffs, and Offseason
Sad part this is just the tip of the iceberg... Yea, PSU and Baylor have been proven to cover up heinous acts, but I really feel that there are several other schools with skeletons just as dark in their closets. If only the sanctioning body had some balls...
Sad part this is just the tip of the iceberg... Yea, PSU and Baylor have been proven to cover up heinous acts, but I really feel that there are several other schools with skeletons just as dark in their closets. If only the sanctioning body had some balls...
St. Clown
Liberal Rebel Scum, apparently
Re: College Football 2015-16: Bowls, Playoffs, and Offseason
Most of the programs with strong histories of winning in tough conferences, most likely.
Most of the programs with strong histories of winning in tough conferences, most likely.
bronconick
Yep, still here
Re: College Football 2015-16: Bowls, Playoffs, and Offseason
Baylor probably deserves a lifetime achievement award.
Baylor probably deserves a lifetime achievement award.
Kepler
Si certus es dubita
Re: College Football 2015-16: Bowls, Playoffs, and Offseason
I strongly suspect this is true. I have first hand experience with one program that is held up as a model (Stanford) and second hand via my best friend of another (Duke). In each case, while there were good student-athletes, many of them were outrageously unable to perform at even a high school education level. At these two schools, the level of entitlement (or perhaps, realism?) was off the charts. These were not students in any respect.
When we see ESPN roll out the platitudes honoring these schools for "doing it the right way," we laugh. At least the SEC isn't hypocritical about what they are.
I strongly suspect this is true. I have first hand experience with one program that is held up as a model (Stanford) and second hand via my best friend of another (Duke). In each case, while there were good student-athletes, many of them were outrageously unable to perform at even a high school education level. At these two schools, the level of entitlement (or perhaps, realism?) was off the charts. These were not students in any respect.
When we see ESPN roll out the platitudes honoring these schools for "doing it the right way," we laugh. At least the SEC isn't hypocritical about what they are.
Kepler
Si certus es dubita
Re: College Football 2015-16: Bowls, Playoffs, and Offseason
Nah, Baylor may actually have been trying to maintain standards for a long time. (Evidence: they're insane Christianists and they sucked for a long time.) The lifetime achievement award goes to a school that has plugged away in obscurity, flaunting educational standards and whitewashing its players' rapes and other felonies for decades, but never getting national recognition. It's the province of schools like Ole Miss and Wake Forest, who never break through with a mass audience scandal despite yeomanlike effort. The unsung heroes.
Nah, Baylor may actually have been trying to maintain standards for a long time. (Evidence: they're insane Christianists and they sucked for a long time.) The lifetime achievement award goes to a school that has plugged away in obscurity, flaunting educational standards and whitewashing its players' rapes and other felonies for decades, but never getting national recognition. It's the province of schools like Ole Miss and Wake Forest, who never break through with a mass audience scandal despite yeomanlike effort. The unsung heroes.
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bronconick
Yep, still here
Re: College Football 2015-16: Bowls, Playoffs, and Offseason
I was referring to to the drug dealing and murder on their basketball team before this.
I was referring to to the drug dealing and murder on their basketball team before this.
FadeToBlack&Gold
Microlot Marxist
Re: College Football 2015-16: Bowls, Playoffs, and Offseason
Yep. Unfortunately, winning covers up all sins. The scandals usually come to light when the cheese starts sliding off a program's cracker.
Yep. Unfortunately, winning covers up all sins. The scandals usually come to light when the cheese starts sliding off a program's cracker.
Kepler
Si certus es dubita
Re: College Football 2015-16: Bowls, Playoffs, and Offseason
Oh. Cool. As you were, then.
Oh. Cool. As you were, then.