When I opened the college football page for ESPN this morning, I was presented with more negative crap about certain college football programs. Items 1 and 2 of their "Headlines" dealt with the ever-changing Terrelle Pryor situation, number 3 concerned the stripping of USC's 2004 national championship by the BCS, the fourth item was about Mike Hamilton's stepping down as Tennessee's embattled AD (his problem go beyond football, but he would have survived if his football program was in good shape), number 5 featured the West Virginia continuing situation with head coach in waiting Dana Holgorson, etc, etc.
Now I am not blaming ESPN--and I usually do--for presenting us with bad news but I must say that the continued state of affairs is depressing. The season cannot start soon enough. But until then expect more stories about what school did what wrong and which player slugged which innocent bystander. After all, not only are there more cameras than ever before, the number of coaches and players willing to flaunt their rule breaking seems to increase with time. All you had to do was take a picture of the players only parking section at Ohio State to know they had a problem. The investigation of USC football was reaching its end when they hired Lane Kiffin who was the head recruiter during part of the investigated time and then brought watchdogs to Tennessee. The situation now is that programs, coaches and players think they are above the law. Dump them all.
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