Convict U? LSU football arrests vs. other programs

could you imagine the melt-down on LSU discussion boards if Sporting News had written this about us last month?


Sporting News
Published Friday, Apr 5, 2013 at 6:16 pm EDT

by Matt Hayes Sporting New

So this is where Auburn is: defending on all fronts, overwhelmed on all sides, barely holding on.
At this point, we remind you that a mere two years ago, Auburn won college football's BCS National Championship.
Since then, we've seen multiple NCAA investigations, two former players killed (and one current player shot) at a pool party, an armed robbery involving four players, a private security firm hired to make sure players make curfew, the worst season in decades, and a coach fired and paid off for $7.5 million. Now we have -- allegedly -- players getting paid, players receiving grade changes to stay eligible and rampant drug use.
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While we debate the latest uncovering of slime and alleged NCAA crime on The Plains, let me remind you of this: The guy charged with fixing it all, new coach Gus Malzahn, was knee-deep in the process little more than a year ago.
ESPN reported that the father of a former Auburn player says then-offensive coordinator Malzahn (and other coaches) asked family members of current players to "visit" with high school recruits and sell Auburn. Auburn denied the report -- just as it denied separate reports of players receiving cash and grade changes to stay with the program and/or stay eligible.
The common denominator in both reports: three former players awaiting trial on robbery charges — one that begins next week. The common thread that, still, after all these decades, hasn't been addressed: the culture of corruption that overfed those three players.
From Eric Ramsey and Pat Dye in the 1980s, to the player payment ledger Wayne Hall laid on Terry Bowden's desk the day he was hired in the 1990s, to the alleged grade changes to keep star tailback Michael Dyer eligible for the 2010 BCS National Championship Game.
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Cam Newton's father shopped him to the highest bidder, and the NCAA concluded that Newton — a grown man who had been through off-field problems at his first school (Florida) and who had twice gone through the recruiting process — didn't know of his father's sordid plans. The worst thing — the absolute worst thing — that could have happened at Auburn was winning the 2010 national championship. All that did was reinforce the corrupt culture. It's like throwing gasoline on a grease fire — until it burns to the very core. Championship programs simply don't win it all one year, and then become the first team in the history of the Associated Press to complete the worst season within two years of winning a championship. Typically, it goes something like this: win a championship, recruiting improves exponentially, win more championships (see: Alabama). Unless, that is, the very foundation of what you do and who you are has rotted away long ago. ... Decades of dirty dealings for one national championship. ...


i particularly like the "slime...on The Plains" part. A definition of slime: "Vile or disgusting matter"

 

2007 offseason: Notre Dame had two quarterbacks battling for the #1 job -- "CBS, May 2007: Freshman Jimmy Clausen and sophomore Demetrius Jones will compete for the job come August."

both of them got arrested for misdemeanors during the competition: Jones for misdemeanor marijuana possession (in May 2007) and Clausen got a misdemeanor (and one year of probation) for getting caught buying alcohol from a liquor store as a minor (in August 2007). Clausen would go on to get in a bar fight at CJ's Pub in South Bend during the 2009 season that left him with this black eye (accounts differ on what happened and nobody filmed it)

 

More info......

http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-fo...ests-lsu-jeremy-hill-missouri-florida-georgia


Breaking down the teams......

http://www.nola.com/lsu/index.ssf/2013/05/lsu_falls_in_lower_half_of_sec.html?utm_source=feedly

 

Glad I clicked on the last link, I was getting ready to light up some writer at nola.com for putting us in the bottom half of the SEC.

 

Glad to help.

 

Proud of Jim Kleinpeter for doing a public 180 from his insane original article/stance on the issue. Bravo

 

One of OU's quarterbacks was arrested a few days ago. Not even sure if it made ESPN, even the people here aren't fired up about it. Just sayin...

 

http://www.nola.com/lsu/index.ssf/2013/05/lsu_falls_in_lower_half_of_sec.html

 

when superstar South Carolina DE/LB Eric Norwood was asked what team talked the most trash, Florida immediately came to his mind. He started four years for SC, during which time he played LSU twice (his soph and junior years with LSU winning both 24-17 and 28-16)

It's from an ESPN SportsNation web chat where they had Norwood respond to questions from fans...

Davis (Greensboro): Which SEC team talked the most trash???

Eric Norwood (2:01 PM): Florida

 

TCU fans in response to their DE getting suspended for two games for what a lot of them assume is a 2nd or 3rd failed drug test:

"if we hadn't been through 15 terrible months of body blow after body blow of arrests, suspensions, rumors, kicked out of TCU, etc etc it wouldn't be that big of a deal. Know the situation."

"the Drug Bust (involving TCU players) was all over ESPN and literally every other major news outlet. Pachall got national attention as well. I just don't see how people can be football fans and not know about (the trouble players got into at) what was easily a top 5 team last year."