Is anyone on this post, this board, this internet, or in college football fandom actually shocked by this development?
Stop the Presses! Bama ignores good sportsmanship!
That is about as informative a headline as, "Earth proven to be Round! Middle-age Mapmakers Miffed!"
This is a football program whom the NCAA has singled out as being the absolute largest, most unrepentent among violators of the letter and spirit of the NCAA regulations.
This is a booster club that did not (and does not) see any problem with purchasing young African American men from their high school coaches with cash, automobiles, and assorted backdoor incentives.
This is a university which the President of the United States had to order to admit African Americans, and when they refused to comply, the President had to order the National Guard to force Bama's compliance.
This is a state which turned firehoses on peaceful citizens who simply wanted to enjoy the same public accomodations as all other citizens without regard to their race, and whose popular governor declared that segregation should last forever.
I am honestly not shocked by anything they do.
That Bammer who shot his son after they lost to the 'barn a few years back? Ho-hum.
Some fat kid in a dress with a full back tattoo of the Bahr leaning on a goalpost? Predictable.
Some Bama co-ed and her fatter, weaker twin wearing houndstooth hats and whores' uniforms? Meh.
Call me when the NCAA actually grows a pair and gives the Gumps the DEATH PENALTY THEY SO RICHLY DESERVE.
...now that would be news.