[07-11-2024] Various forum updates made.
Quote from: Code20photog on June 10, 2010, 02:10:26 PM
Face it, it's all a crock. USC made a TON of money for the NCAA, ABC and ESPN during the 2000s, and everyone looked the other way. Don't tell me that everyone didn't know the program was crooked, how else did they have such a dominant decade? But now that Pete Carroll is gone, and many of the recruits have re-considered and signed with other schools, now's the time to slap them on the wrist with these penalties.
College football is nothing more than a business. Their revenue stream is right up there with the NFL, if not higher, and yet these players see none of it. The best players get a free ride, take "rocks for jocks" in school, leave early, and head to the NFL for millions. The rest of the players get cast to the side once their usefulness is tapped out. When I was at Fresno State, our football program was in the national spotlight, Trent Dilfer was our QB and a bonafide star, and the team graduated 11% of the players. 7 players on a suit-up team of 66, 13 on the 125-man roster.