Gilbert: Athletic departments twist law to hide crimes

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We all know big-time college sports--football and basketball--is extremely corrupt. That's just the way it is. Grades altered by high schools, test-taking fraud, crib courses and crib majors, sneaker contracts, AAU shenanigans, kids changing high schools, diploma mills, payoffs to parents and handlers--it goes on and on. At least one third of the big-time players in basketball and football shouldn't be in college--and only stay eligible because everybody's got these multi-million academic support facilities that exist to keep these cats in school by hook or by crook for two/three/four years.

We hear about a lot of corruption--but there is no doubt a ton of stuff is quietly covered up. I suppose we diehard fans are lucky that colleges presidents and the NCAA or even Congress haven't really cracked down on athletics--as they could. As is, of course, the universities put up with all the unethical behavior for the same reason unethical behavior is tolerated in other walks of life--because it's all part of a business that generates a ton of money. These are the facts...

I'm a big college sports fan, but it doesn't bother me when professors or academics speak out or decry cheating and unethical behavior because I know they're right. What's amazing, truly, is that so few profs actually do raise hell about all this. Why don't they? The answer is, they know they'll get vilified like Benzel-Meyers and others because fans and alums and others don't want to hear that their programs are corrupt. Football means to much to UT--and the state of Tennessee--and the same at bama and florida and osu and southern cal...It makes too much money. I was pleased to see USC run off their basketball coach for paying off OJ Mayo's handlers--but a lot of **** gets conveniently overlooked. Behind all that saturday pageantry and the big hoops drama, it's a very dirty business. Let's not kid ourselves...
 
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she's a member of the Drake Group, and organization dedicated to the elimination of athletic scholarships. Not sure why they want to eliminate them, they just do.

Gilbert fails to mention this. Yet another writer who does less background work than a first year journalism student.
 
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armchairvol said:
We all know big-time college sports--football and basketball--is extremely corrupt. That's just the way it is. Grades altered by high schools, test-taking fraud, crib courses and crib majors, sneaker contracts, AAU shenanigans, kids changing high schools, diploma mills, payoffs to parents and handlers--it goes on and on. At least one third of the big-time players in basketball and football shouldn't be in college--and only stay eligible because everybody's got these multi-million academic support facilities that exist to keep these cats in school by hook or by crook for two/three/four years.

We hear about a lot of corruption--but there is no doubt a ton of stuff is quietly covered up. I suppose we diehard fans are lucky that colleges presidents and the NCAA or even Congress haven't really cracked down on athletics--as they could. As is, of course, the universities put up with all the unethical behavior for the same reason unethical behavior is tolerated in other walks of life--because it's all part of a business that generates a ton of money. These are the facts...

I'm a big college sports fan, but it doesn't bother me when professors or academics speak out or decry cheating and unethical behavior because I know they're right. What's amazing, truly, is that so few profs actually do raise hell about all this. Why don't they? The answer is, they know they'll get vilified like Benzel-Meyers and others because fans and alums and others don't want to hear that their programs are corrupt. Football means to much to UT--and the state of Tennessee--and the same at bama and florida and osu and southern cal...It makes too much money. I was pleased to see USC run off their basketball coach for paying off OJ Mayo's handlers--but a lot of **** gets conveniently overlooked. Behind all that saturday pageantry and the big hoops drama, it's a very dirty business. Let's not kid ourselves...
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And Gilbert brings this up about once every 2 years...

Didn't realize he had turned up in Murfreesboro.

The home of yet another school who has been on probation more than us.
 
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oUTKickedCoverage said:
she's a member of the Drake Group, and organization dedicated to the elimination of athletic scholarships. Not sure why they want to eliminate them, they just do.

Gilbert fails to mention this. Yet another writer who does less background work than a first year journalism student.
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I'm pretty certain he knows this detail.
 
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oUTKickedCoverage said:
Yet another writer who does less background work than a first year journalism student.
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No joke. I've done as much investigation into this story as this "journalist", and I haven't read one document or interviewed one source. Stories in the National Enquirer make this person's articles look like puff pieces by comparison.
 
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armchairvol said:
We all know big-time college sports--football and basketball--is extremely corrupt. That's just the way it is. Grades altered by high schools, test-taking fraud, crib courses and crib majors, sneaker contracts, AAU shenanigans, kids changing high schools, diploma mills, payoffs to parents and handlers--it goes on and on. At least one third of the big-time players in basketball and football shouldn't be in college--and only stay eligible because everybody's got these multi-million academic support facilities that exist to keep these cats in school by hook or by crook for two/three/four years.

We hear about a lot of corruption--but there is no doubt a ton of stuff is quietly covered up. I suppose we diehard fans are lucky that colleges presidents and the NCAA or even Congress haven't really cracked down on athletics--as they could. As is, of course, the universities put up with all the unethical behavior for the same reason unethical behavior is tolerated in other walks of life--because it's all part of a business that generates a ton of money. These are the facts...

I'm a big college sports fan, but it doesn't bother me when professors or academics speak out or decry cheating and unethical behavior because I know they're right. What's amazing, truly, is that so few profs actually do raise hell about all this. Why don't they? The answer is, they know they'll get vilified like Benzel-Meyers and others because fans and alums and others don't want to hear that their programs are corrupt. Football means to much to UT--and the state of Tennessee--and the same at bama and florida and osu and southern cal...It makes too much money. I was pleased to see USC run off their basketball coach for paying off OJ Mayo's handlers--but a lot of **** gets conveniently overlooked. Behind all that saturday pageantry and the big hoops drama, it's a very dirty business. Let's not kid ourselves...
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I'm not kidding myself in the least. College athletics is a dirty, slimy business. However, if I were going to write articles for a newspaper ripping athletic programs for their faults, I would sure as hell make sure that I have something more than hearsay and innuendo to support my statements. Honestly, this is one of the worst examples of journalism that I've read in quite a while.
 
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oUTKickedCoverage said:
Yeah, just did a search and found out he was a keynote speaker at a function of theirs in 03'... about this exact thing.
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It may have already been explained, but Gilbert was in cahoots with her on this. Basically her thoughts on the modern student athlete and allegations were given a regular stage in his articles about 10 years ago. They made the cable TV rounds, but unfortunately for them most people hated her ideas and the NCAA disagreed with her claims toward UT's AD.
 
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RussDogg said:
This guy sure is bitter. Kiffin must have took his girlfriend in middle school.
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Or maybe last week...?

You're right. The guy is very bitter. Good grief. It is a pretty big leap from a school choosing not to give them information that they had no entitlement to anyway to "they must be hiding something egregious".

Maybe they determined it just wasn't any of his business.
 
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sjt18 said:
Or maybe last week...?

You're right. The guy is very bitter. Good grief. It is a pretty big leap from a school choosing not to give them information that they had no entitlement to anyway to "they must be hiding something egregious".

Maybe they determined it just wasn't any of his business.
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No, it's "Clearly, those schools have something egregious to hide."

Both of the articles that I've read from this moron have made this type of gargantuan leap in logic. I will not be reading a third article from this mental midget.
 
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