A terrible article on football players My Email back to him: You sir should do a lot more research before writing such an inflammatory piece degrading these players and institutions. If you had the decency to investigate the real story you would have found out what Nick Saban and Bob Stoops have done since being hired by these colleges and what the chancellors have given them in order to be successful. Building new academic centers designed to improve all athletes performance in school so as to better their lives after playing sports. Every one of the football players at LSU that has not transferred out is on pace to get a degree, 100% of them. Not one LSU football player has been ruled out of the bowl game for academics. People like you get on their high horse without really investigating, just taking an article off of the Internet and using that one piece as evidence of academic fraud. You should have gone to LSU and Oklahoma to investigate the academic records of the men that you are accusing of not deserving to be in this game, of not knowing the name of our vice president. You are throwing darts in a public forum at these fine young men without interviewing them, their academic counselors and professors, their coaches, advisors and administrators. You would have found out about the players studying to be doctors, lawyers, scientists, etc. You would have found out about the academic All-Americans on the team. You would have found out about the great character of these players that you are bashing. If I were to perform my job, which requires much research, as inadequate as you my clients would not even think about using my services ever again. I demand that you do this research and then run another article on what you find out or write a retraction in your paper that states that you shouldn't have written an article as you had not performed the proper research and investigation. Sincerely, David Giardina
