MikeHamiltonFan
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I just had to be in South Pittsburg and I thought of a guy I used to know named Kenny Smith.
I have no idea how I missed that he sued Fulmer, but I did. I read the lawsuit yesterday and Kenny was telling the truth.
When it comes to academics, it is very very tough for the NCAA to prove any type of academic fraud and the reason is that college professors generally and professors who are known as "athlete friendly" specifically are so lenient with all their students that getting out of an exam or getting a makeup for a missed paper is not even special treatment.
I talked to tutors at South Carolina and Georgia as well and I suspect everyone has majors that are a bit easier that attract football players who are not candidates for the academic honor roll, but in a time when colleges around the U.S. offer History of Rock, and majors in "XXXX studies" that are a total joke it is hard to prove academic fraud.
Paying players like Alabama, Memphis and I suspect USC have done should not be allowed. The NCAA can also track that pretty well.
Getting a coaching advantage like USC did is a stupid NCAA rule.
Booster contact through Facebook etc is an unenforceable and insane rule.
Academic fraud where athletes get extra help will happen as long as stud players are getting to college without the ability to read or score a 16 on a timed ACT.
Finally I have this question. Does anyone else suspect that some of the Bama boosters are the ones paying for the pot that flows so freely into Gibbs? I knew lots of broke players that scored free pot, and I guess some of those dealers wanted to get NFL money later on (and seeing what happened with Jamal and Travis maybe they were not so stupid to think it was possible) but what if someone at Bama just wanted to hurt our program? Weed is the opposite of a performance enhancing drug, especially when someone is supposed to be losing weight on training table...
I have no idea how I missed that he sued Fulmer, but I did. I read the lawsuit yesterday and Kenny was telling the truth.
When it comes to academics, it is very very tough for the NCAA to prove any type of academic fraud and the reason is that college professors generally and professors who are known as "athlete friendly" specifically are so lenient with all their students that getting out of an exam or getting a makeup for a missed paper is not even special treatment.
I talked to tutors at South Carolina and Georgia as well and I suspect everyone has majors that are a bit easier that attract football players who are not candidates for the academic honor roll, but in a time when colleges around the U.S. offer History of Rock, and majors in "XXXX studies" that are a total joke it is hard to prove academic fraud.
Paying players like Alabama, Memphis and I suspect USC have done should not be allowed. The NCAA can also track that pretty well.
Getting a coaching advantage like USC did is a stupid NCAA rule.
Booster contact through Facebook etc is an unenforceable and insane rule.
Academic fraud where athletes get extra help will happen as long as stud players are getting to college without the ability to read or score a 16 on a timed ACT.
Finally I have this question. Does anyone else suspect that some of the Bama boosters are the ones paying for the pot that flows so freely into Gibbs? I knew lots of broke players that scored free pot, and I guess some of those dealers wanted to get NFL money later on (and seeing what happened with Jamal and Travis maybe they were not so stupid to think it was possible) but what if someone at Bama just wanted to hurt our program? Weed is the opposite of a performance enhancing drug, especially when someone is supposed to be losing weight on training table...
