OK, so we love college football. But WHY do we still love it?
Caleb King: No longer a Bulldog. Tech: No longer the '09 ACC champ. (AJC photo by Brant Sanderlin)
The SEC’s annual Media Days — the biggest football conference needs three calendar days just to accommodate all the blather — convene Wednesday in Hoover, Ala. The ACC stages its (two-day) convocation this weekend in Pinehurst, N.C. This means we’re not that far from actually getting to watch the One True Sport, the game we Southerners know and love.
One question, though. Should we love it?
For college football, 2011 has already been an annus horribilis, which is Latin for “lousy year.” And yes, it’s only July. We’ve still got the 2011 season to go. Maybe things will get better. They could scarcely get worse. In calendar 2011 we’ve seen:
• The 2004 BCS titlist (Southern Cal) stripped of its crown, largely because of an investigation into the financial arrangements of Reggie Bush, the 2005 Heisman winner.
• The 2002 BCS titlist (Ohio State) stripped of iconic head coach Jim Tressel, who resigned after it was revealed he hadn’t reported allegations of players trading memorabilia for tattoos and had been less than forthcoming in statements to the NCAA.
• The 1998 BCS titlist (Tennessee) stripped of athletic director Mike Hamilton, who quit ahead of an NCAA hearing into basketball and baseball, yes, but also football. Which can happen when you hire Lane Kiffin.
• The 2009 ACC champion (Georgia Tech) stripped of its title because it used an ineligible player and stripped of $100,000 because its administration ticked off the NCAA.
• One of the three 2010 Big East co-champions (West Virginia) placed on two years’ NCAA probation because of a failure to monitor its coaches.
• The 2010 Music City Bowl champion (North Carolina) informed that the NCAA has levied nine violations, ranging from impermissible benefits to academic misconduct, against it.
• Both teams that played for the 2010 BCS title fall under scrutiny: Auburn because of the presence of Cam Newton, the 2010 Heisman winner whose recruitment is still apparently the center of an ongoing NCAA investigation, and Oregon because it paid a Texas man named Willie Lyles $25,000 for what it contends were “scouting services” but what Lyles says were something else.
• The Fiesta Bowl, one of the BCS flagships, lose its president and nearly lose its exalted status after it was revealed staffers had been (illegally) reimbursed for contributions to political campaigns.
• One of the 2010 Big East co-champions (West Virginia again) accepting the resignation of head coach Bill Stewart, who had become implicated in the attempt to smear Dana Holgorsen, whom the Mountaineers had just hired as Stewart’s successor-in-waiting. Quick succession, huh?
The NFL and the NBA are locked out because of money. After such a run of regrettable news, we who follow college football should be asking if this sport mightn’t be better served locking its doors and disbanding its programs. Even those among us who have long known of the seamier side to the Color & Pageantry are wondering if color and pageantry are worth all this.
College football has long been a dirty business, but it’s bigger and dirtier than ever. The strange spectacle of recruiting has become a sport unto itself. (Esteemed colleague Michael Carvell offers the best description I’ve heard: “A lot of fans would rather see their team get a big commitment than score a touchdown on Saturday.”) Assistant coaches now make more than Hall of Fame head coaches did a quarter-century ago. At least one father — an ordained minister, of all things — has been accused of trying to sell his son’s services.
And yet: For all the grime, college football is the one game for which our passion is never diminished. Look around the SEC. Notice many empty seats in those massive stadiums? Even college basketball has seen its regular season diluted because nobody can remember who’s playing from year to year, but never college football. There’s big money to be made. (Except if you’re a player and you’re looking to sell your Independence Bowl jersey. That’ll cost you four games.)
Back to the SEC. It’s the biggest, and its five consecutive BCS titles brand it as the best. It’s also, as Brett McMurphy of CBS Sports noted, the slimiest. Since 1987, no conference can match the SEC’s 13 major NCAA violations. Every SEC football program save two — LSU, which saw its last major violation in 1986, and Vanderbilt, which has never been hit with one — has been docked over that span. The (im)moral of our story: To be the best, cheat the hardest.
And yet: We know all this stuff and we love it anyway. And, cognitively dissonant though we are, we’re about to get excited all over again. Heaven help us all.
By Mark Bradley
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Eddie
July 19th, 2011
8:38 am
Because we love seeing the Georgia players lying on the ground and the Georgia coaches staring at their feet as opponents’ players, fans, and coaches celebrate.
We see this all the time and still, we can’t get enough of it, Mark.
GT
July 19th, 2011
8:39 am
College football is not as healthy as Brad would have us believe. Lets see what happen when Ohio State gets their probation. The NCAA have painted themselves in a corner and now about have to bomb OSU. If the richer and more populated parts of the country don’t field a football team and the rest are watered down with parity there will be and has been a negative result. Basketball just got there sooner but the cloud is coming for football.
Eddie
July 19th, 2011
8:42 am
We also enjoy seeing the sad look on the Georgia fans’ faces on TV.
yellow britches
July 19th, 2011
8:48 am
Mark, How did Tech “cheat”? Here is what I want the NCAA and the BCS to do for me. I went to the ACC championship game in Tampa. Cold. I went to the Orange Bowl in Miami. Colder still. The NCAA says these games did not occur. Tech didn’t win and Tech didn’t lose. There was no “do over”. Just nothing. However, my credit card and bank account says something happened. Namely, that I spent money for nothing. I WANT A REFUND!!!! OK.
Bodda Getta
July 19th, 2011
8:54 am
Jealousy can be an ugly thing, Columbus Dawg
Auburn has already been investigated twice. It’s over.
But Keep Hope Alive, Georgia Fans!
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NYJacket
July 19th, 2011
9:06 am
Mark, is your comment that DT was ineligible a fact? Or, it is an oppinion not based on fact?
tar and feathers party
July 19th, 2011
9:06 am
I think the criminal activity of News Corp in England should result in the closing of ALL american papers, especially the AJC, and the firing of all the big mouth sports reports like Mark! Should anyone believe anything written in any newspaper? No, so close them all and fire the worthless staff.
tar and feathers party
July 19th, 2011
9:08 am
Oh yeah, abolish the ncaa, fire all its staff.
Can't spell cheat without T-E-C-H!!!
July 19th, 2011
9:10 am
Sorry tool fans, but the moronic, laughable lie of “well it was just a mistake and we didn’t know about it” isn’t going to work this time. For that matter it didn’t work a few years ago either when a poor woman was blamed for the “errors” for all the other crooks youc cheaters illegally played. Obviously the AD and Johnson were neck deep in this scandal, hence their adamant refusal to allow NCAA investigators on campus.
If you have nothing to hide, then let them in. Just yet another hilarious cheating scandal coming out of the worst athletic program in all of sports. Karma is funny, isn’t it?
DC
July 19th, 2011
9:12 am
@ Columbus Dawg hahahahahahaha….man if we brought up everything that big NCAA schools have done…Back in 1918..ole Jesse Waldrup took a pay for play while attending Old Demascus…he took 2 dollars and went to all the nickelodians he wanted to for free…
old_eagle
July 19th, 2011
9:28 am
Perhaps it has been mentioned (don’t read all the posts), but all this and no mention of the crime that is rampant among college football players. Look no further than the headlines of today’s AJC re. GSU’s QB. In general, today’s college football player is a much lower form of “student”-athlete. The dreads and tattoos are a small refelection of a lifestyle. Lowlife-style. A bit reflective of society in general I suppose. I played college football at a time when you at least were expected to show some measure of self respect. Those days are long gone.
Columbus Dawg
July 19th, 2011
9:41 am
I would not expect a “Happy to have a crystal football in our trophy case, no matter what anyone thinks” Auburn D.A. to understand my point about your cheating football program, or the pieces of crap who have and are running it, but your team has been banned from television and bowl games on at least three different occasions, and if you are stupid enough to think that the 2004 season was played without payed for players then I do not know on what scale your blind stupidity could possibly be measured.
I have not been able to uncover one single occasion where UGA was banned from television appearances, or any bowl game in it’s history of playing under the NCAA. Now that is not to say that there have not been plenty of instances of goings on in Athens that Dawg folks are not proud of, but not nearly on the plateau that the weagles have reached. No one in America thinks your title is legit exept Auburn people, and that is a shame. Only the idiot Auburn crowd could come up with the slogan, “Auburn Tigers: The best team on the radio”. Give me a break.
John
July 19th, 2011
9:46 am
Mark, you are FACTUALLY WRONG: Thomas was NOT ruled ineligible at ANY time!! Not by the NCAA, the ACC, or the Institute. Please take the time to get your facts straight!
No wonder they have such disdain for you over there.
Rayburn Golf
July 19th, 2011
9:47 am
EVERYBODY cheats. They don’t have enough field staff to catch a good deal of it.
Vanderbilt has the best plan
Cobb Dawg
July 19th, 2011
9:54 am
I’m starting to love it less and less. When “student athletes” can barely read and write, and can’t speak the Queen’s English, are given full scholarships to a school. And kids with 3.5 HS GPA’s can’t get in, there’s something wrong with the system. And when a CFB HC makes up to 10 times what the president of the university makes, our priorities are somewhat skewed. The NFL and the NBA need minor league systems like MLB has. That way the Cam Newtons, who have no interest in getting a degree and no loyalty to a school at all, never attend class, etc. have a place to hone their skills.
headley lamar
July 19th, 2011
9:56 am
One thing is for sure.
Tech is now one of the dirties programs in college football.
Two probation’s in a very short period of time. One more might get them the death penalty.
Cobb Dawg
July 19th, 2011
9:58 am
ViningsDawg, I seriously doubt that you live in Vinings or that you are a Dawg. If you don’t think that *AU paid *Cam Newton, you probably still believe in Santa Claus and The Easter Bunny.
Cobb Dawg
July 19th, 2011
10:00 am
I’d certainly hate for Tech to get the death penalty. That home game at the end of the season, no matter whether we’re in Athens or Atlanta, is sweet for UGA fans.
wreckbone
July 19th, 2011
10:02 am
I think the clothing thing is ridiculous. Its not like the players don’t get mountains of “sanctioned” clothing. Apparently strollers and kids clothing is also part of that. In 2000 I sat in Duke’s ACC seciton of the ACC tournament. You mean to tell me a player like that has enough time and money to deck out his girl and baby in all Duke clothing and also a Duke stroller that would cost an average fan $100+ . So that is legit, but I guess it all is where you got the clothing. In the mod 90’s Wake’s guard was a basketball, football and baseball letterman. He lived with his kid and fiancee in on campus apartment. How would you pay for that if your girl didn’t work, supporting your significant other and a baby but you lettering in 3 sports? You have no time to do that. The school had to pay for that. Its all BS. At least they are levying probation. I’d rather play for the post season and get it stripped later than to miss the post season. That kills recruiting. I don’t care if it is not on the books. Some Clemson chump may be able to talk smack in a bar at some point, but that night, Iw as happy, adrenaline pumping watching that awesome game that we won. I still got the T shirts so no big deal. Everyone jumped on the Johnson bandwagon because of that season so it worked for me. We put more people in the bleachers and got 4/5 guys to the NFL from that team. That doesn’t suck.
Tom
July 19th, 2011
10:07 am
Still waiting for Mark to tell us which Tech player was ineligible.
Cobb Dawg
July 19th, 2011
10:08 am
Bodda Getta, can you not read?!?! Or do you just live in the land of the fairies?!?! The NCAA has said that the investigation of *AU is not over. And, in fact, I believe that they are dotting their I’s and crossing their T’s because the hammer’s coming down hard. Do you really think that *AU’s getting away with the *Cam Newton pay-for-play issue, the HBO “we got paid” story, etc, etc, etc. Do you really think the NCAA is going to punish Tech for a fairly minor infraction and *AU is getting away scot-free…………really?!?!?!
DC
July 19th, 2011
10:23 am
I believe..I feel…How can…2004..no way …I I I I I…
How come when it comes to this topic, no one can make an argument based on facts?
HBO story is not valid anymore…look up facts on that..
Its not what you know…ITS WHAT YOU CAN PROVE. Do i think AU is a clean university? NO. Do i think UGA is a clean university? NO. Do I think any university is clean? NO. Does it make it right? NO.
I do know that there is no way to hide over 100k ..NO WAY. that money should be traced by now as long as this case has been going….
Only way AU gets in trouble is if AU knew about the issue at miss St and discussions were talked with cecil at AU…Cam isn’t going to talk. AU isn’t going to talk.
Good luck with all that…
Andy
July 19th, 2011
10:31 am
Mark,
Good article. Let me list some things:
1- Tailgating
2- Pre-game debates
3- Poll ranking debates
4- Position battles
5- Debates about freshman
6- Best memories of last season
7- Seeing how new coaches will do
8- Seeing how JUCO transfers will do
9- Spring games
10- Recruiting battles/rankings
11- Can SEC maintain dynasty
12- Seeing who goes in NFL draft, and who underused talent
13- Rivalries
14- traditions
15- Marching bands
16- Seeing if predictions work out
I think it’s the love of the underdog. It’s David & Goliath, every week. Georgia or Boise or South Carolina could be the underdog story of the season.
What do you think Mark, as a journalist, is the underdog thing a big story?
SoCal_GT_Fan
July 19th, 2011
10:57 am
With your “Mightier-than-thou” approach, I’m assuming you have banned yourself from watching baseball? I mean, there was a WHOLE DECADE of cheating going on (could be longer than a decade) and that was ACTUAL ON-THE-FIELD cheating.
You know why its a dirty business? Because we live in a capitalistic society where there’s this big business called “college football” that makes BILLIONS of dollars yet these “student-athletes” are suppose to be happy with just receiving a free education with room & board. Any dummy can do the math and know that they are getting HOSED/USED by the system to generate big money for their respective school and conference. Now, in such a situation, will there be players who would do anything to get a bucket of change in their pockets? OF COURSE!!!! Why should they follow NCAA rules when that same governing board is making boatloads of cash off of their blood, sweat and tears?
All the noted cheating and scandals you mention above are incidents that happen off-campus and something that I’m not sure how a school should monitor their players. What are ya going to do? Restrict players from going off campus or having a chaperon with them at all times? All you can do is just hope that they aren’t getting themselves in trouble but that’s where the trouble lies. Trouble is everywhere around them because there’s a HUGE demand for anything to do with players such as memorabilia and autographs. If someone wanted a jersey you had in the back of your closet (or AJ Green’s closet for that matter) for thousands of dollars, I wouldn’t be surprised if most of us would sell that jersey. Now you can go to Dave & Busters and/or out to Buckhead and have a couple nights of fun without worrying about running out of money. These are 18-22 year olds who want to enjoy college and have fun so even though they might know what the consequences are, they might reason their way into breaking NCAA rules.
Hal
July 19th, 2011
11:23 am
Mark
If you were Tech and know the character of the players under question and believe them when they told you that they had done nothing wrong what further is there to discuss? If he NCAA had come to your institution for another reason and found nothing. Pulling a switch and going in another direction would piss me off too and would smack of a which hunt in progress. As it turns out nothing was found and the items in questioned returned as soon as they could be interpreted as a gift with a taint of an agent behind them. The only real guilt in short was the attitude of the Tech staff involved during the investigation. After questioning the players Tech felt comfortable w that nothing was wrong and that was the end of it . The NCAA wanted to drag it out ,Tech saw no reason to drag it out and let them know it. The moral of the story . When two parties involved in an NCAA investigation only one has a opinion that counts and it is not the institution under investigation.
chank a long chong
July 19th, 2011
12:49 pm
a bit cynical aren’t we mr. bradley? where is that inner child that see’s the good in others hiding?
RT in NC
July 19th, 2011
12:52 pm
Most NCAA violations are about money and recruiting. There have not been any point shaving scandals, signal stealing, or referee payoffs. Basically, its been and “ugly” year, but no one is accused of cheating on the field. Bottom line, who cares? Because the NCAA is inconsistent about enforcement and penalties, it is in every team’s best interest to get away with whatever they can on recruitment and player benefits. The NCAA didn’t have the nads to punish Ohio State before the National Championship game, so now they are going to bring the hammer down on non-contenders like GT to prove they are really serious. Give me a break.
RedShoe
July 19th, 2011
12:52 pm
“Mark, you are FACTUALLY WRONG: Thomas was NOT ruled ineligible at ANY time!! Not by the NCAA, the ACC, or the Institute. Please take the time to get your facts straight!
No wonder they have such disdain for you over there.”
John-
Mark made it up. It’s just a little journalistic cheat. But it’s ok- we love college football.
RT in NC
July 19th, 2011
1:11 pm
Cobb Dawg said
The NFL and the NBA need minor league systems like MLB has. That way the Cam Newtons, who have no interest in getting a degree and no loyalty to a school at all, never attend class, etc. have a place to hone their skills.
As a Tech fan, it pains me to say that this Dawg is 100% right. And I bet if the Cam Newtons never played a down in college, there would still be tens of thousands of fans in every college football stadium every Saturday of the fall.
If a kid cheats, take his scholarship away and ban his coach for life. The kid can still play ball, he just has to pay 20 grand for the privilege. The coach is gone forever. There are ten people right behind the coach’s and players ready to take their places with near equal skills. It would only take a few enforcements to “encourage” coaches to enforce the rules themselves. It ain’t rocket science.
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captguitarman
July 19th, 2011
2:22 pm
“It’s the Economy, Stupid” – Hillary Clinton. “The Things We Think and Do Not Say – The Future of Our Business” – Jerry Maguire – published just before he was fired. “Show Me the Money” – Rod Tidwell (Jerry Maguire). “Money Talks and Bullsh*t Walks” – Aesop, Socrates, Bubba Jay?
Gosh, I hate to be grumpy old curmeddgeon stomping on lofty goals and ideals and the sacred ideal of the student-athlete, enhancing his or her education and building character while building a healthy and fit body through fairly played athletic contests, and gaining fairly won glory from fairly won victories, etc. It’s a dirty job, but somone has got to do it. As Joan Rivers would say . . . Oh, puh-leese, at long last . . . . puh-leese. How can we stand ourselves for loving big time college sports, especially football?????? What planet are you living on????
The student-athlete ideal in big-time college sports is oooohhhvvvveeerrrr! OH-VER! Is it going to take a stadium falling on the heads of the true believers to finally get it. The system is immersed, soaked, saturated in money, BIG MONEY – I mean like REALLY REALLY REALLY BIG MONEY. Does money corrupt, people, ideals, systems, institutions, governments, preachers, and first grade teachers, causing them to violate the rules?????? Okay, that was stupid question. The money is a well-estalished fact. It is here and has been here, and every year their will be more and more of it, and more bad influence, and more bad behavior. Why? Because in the name of preserving an ideal that has lost its meaning in big time college sports — “The Student-Athlete” — we have an organization defending to its last breath (because of the money, of course) the last bastion of indentured servitude in American life.
Millions and gazillions of dollars flowing into the big time programs. Schools, school presidents and other officers, coaches, assistant coaches, trainers, agents, lawyers, consultants, sportswriters, PR reps, marketing and merchandising reps, concessionaires, relatives, friends, former players, classmates, etc. etc. all raking it in hand over fist in gi-normous amounts. Everyone that is, except the gladiators on the field. And like it or not, the value of a four year degree and books and a little spending money for laundry pales . . . . totally pales, pales at what those who surround these indentured servants rake in from their efforts. And the indentured servants notice it, and it is easy to tempt them.
GT burns over $312 because the NCAA gets mad — while the coach makes $312 per minute — per second???? This has all become a huge distraction, a cottage industry, a huge joke, and it is on the indentured servants – it has a whole life of its own now. Just figure out a way to get these guys some well-deserved money that recognizes the value of what they bring in. Lots of issues to deal with, I know, so let’s get the ball rolling and deal with them – and avoid these travesties of injustice imposed on GT, and others.
More for the players means less in the pockets of the schools and all named beneficiaries above, but there is more than plenty to go around as far as I can see. And by the way, someone said something about solving this with an NFL minor league. Not very likely because the NFL has a free minor league now that it does not have to pay one penny for. I dout the billionaires fighting the millionaires in the NFL now, who can’t figure out how to divide up that enormous pie, will suddenly want to begin paying their mior league players in college football. It’s way past time to end this student-athlete myth at the big time money making schools now (okay to keep it for sleepy liberal arts colleges, for now), and move on.
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July 19th, 2011
3:35 pm
Make that Vanderbilt is the only SEC program that hasn’t been penalized for major violations in the last 25 years.
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Bob
July 19th, 2011
5:36 pm
” Since 1987, no conference can match the SEC’s 13 major NCAA violations. Every SEC football program save two — LSU, which saw its last major violation in 1986, and Vanderbilt, which has never been hit with one — has been docked over that span. The (im)moral of our story: To be the best, cheat the hardest.”
You can now scratch LSU off that short list of non-violators.
Thomas Brown
July 19th, 2011
11:52 pm
LSU, yes for 1 year probation. At least LSU owned up to it.
That is a lot more than Georgia tek did in trying to cover-up and continuing to try to cover-up when your AD told PAUL JOHNSON and BOTH future NFL players what should and what should not be said.
Thus
Four (4) Years PROBATION in football.
PROBATION in FOOTBALL back-to-back. Repeat offender.
Georgia tek has spent the entire last 10 years on NCAA PROBATION in FOOTBALL.
I say again Georgia tek has no basis for saying anything about college football – nothing. And, for the poster GT who says something about an UGA fan, do you really wish me to post about Georgia tek fans and how you throw bottles on the field of play ?
The Georgia tek fans are the absolute worst.
All you have to do is to read any blog on the AJ-C and you have all the proof you need of my point.
Mark Bradley – nice job sir – of reporting NOTHING from 11 November 2009 to 14 July 2011 on Georgia tek now being right back on NCAA PROBATION in FOOTBALL. Nothing.
megan
July 20th, 2011
2:09 pm
“Actually, I don’t recall anywhere in the report that said Tech lied” Uhhh…thats exactly what they got busted for, OBSTRUCTION!!!!
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