Sunday, October 13, 2013

Hypocritical, Biased and Unfair

I have been meaning to post something regarding the completely hypocritical, biased and unfair way college football is governed and covered by the media.  I really have a hard time finding the words when situations like Cam Newton and Johnny Manziel are made a continuing story for almost six months each if not more and immediately investigated while similar situations are completely ignored, most of them being at the University of Alabama.  

My first point is not even if Bama is guilty, it is just simply seeing them and the allegations against them investigated by the media like the allegations against AuburnAuburn was crushed thousands and thousands of times all over media outlets during the Cam Newton saga and then repeatedly attacked (with full ESPN coverage) multiple times since then with not a shred of proof to back up the allegations made.  Meanwhile there is so much smoke at Bama you can hardly see the campus and any story no matter how big is gone in a matter of days if that long.

The next question is obviously if any of these allegations will be investigated by the NCAA?  It does not appear so.  Now that Bama has trouble, it is really not time to apply the rules.  It is time to get philosophical and talk about how players really should be paid and how the NCAA is just not working.  When crushing Cam Newton and Auburn was the rage there was only talk of crime and punishment.  That has also happened on many other high profile cases outside Tuscaloosa and it is unbelievable all these schools and the national media will say nothing.

Ohio State was crushed yet Bama is not investigated for T-Town Menswear which appeared to be similar allegations.  USC was stripped of it's national title for using an ineligible player, Reggie Bush, that took money from an agent.  It appears Bama won the 2011 NCAA title using an ineligible player, DJ Fluker, that took money from an agent yet it appears nothing will come from it.  That particular allegation appears to have the most proof but again, crickets.

Anyway I could go on but the people at the Never To Yield Foundation have done a better job than I could ever do.  This post: "WHERE THERE'S FIRE, THERE'S FIRE" is literally the best summary of the allegations and incidents that have occurred in Tuscaloosa since Nick $aban took over I have ever seen.  Please take the time and check this post out, you certainly won't read about it anywhere else...

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