B$C$ Pay-For-Play/Sex-For-Sign -- What do we have here??

Leave it to HBO to really muck things up.

A recent Real Sports show (which might still be airing on HBO for a bit) seems to want to blow the lid off this whole college football farce, leading up to and including the B$C$.

In it, at least four former Auburn players make the following charges:

• One player, at LSU for a camp, was given $500 in a "money handshake" to try to get him to sign with LSU.
• The same player also received "money handshakes" from Auburn and from Michigan State.
• He then went to Ohio State for recruiting, and not only received approximately $1,000 in similar constructs, but was offered (and accepted) sex from girls at a party that a couple of the Ohio State players had accompanied the prospective recruit to.
• This caused the player to commit to Ohio State. (And who would blame him, because basically it would mean that he would have enough meat to satisfy his manhood by being BMOC, on top of the money he was going to receive, above (scholarship) and below the table!)
• Then, someone from Auburn sent him literally a bookbag full of money. That got him to sign to Auburn.
• The same player also reports pay-for-performance benefits as well. One time, his performance actually got him enough money to get a car which he desired ($7,000, cash). A sack could be worth $300-400. A four-sack game versus Alabama ("the only game that matters")? $4,000!
  
• A second of the four was also offered a large sum of money to go to Auburn, but didn't take it because he wanted autonomy.
  
• After changing his major (because, in his OWN WORDS: "so my classes didn’t interfere no more but I didn’t bother to go because I knew I was only there to play football.”), he is called up to the coach's office because he has "mail". The "mail" had $500 in it.
• This was repeated several times that season and made more frequent during his senior year.
• The other two players both reported similar "money handshakes", one of whom (injured before he ever played a down) received somewhere around $3,000 to sign with Auburn.
• One of the players was skimming tickets for $1,000/pop for the annual Iron Bowl showdown.

So why do I go in such detail?

College sports, at the major college level, are a CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE.

We are so past the need for a National Sports Commission (on this and many other subjects) that stuff like the B$C$ and the NCAA are probably, now, unsavable.

Look at the allegations. Auburn. Ohio State. LSU. And you can't think some of the other SEC schools aren't involved either. And we already know all the crooked shit going down with U$C.

There's college football for you. And NOTHING is going to be done to change it.

Why? Because it ends college sports.

Most schools are losing money on their athletics. Some, quite badly. The University of California (at Berkeley) just dropped baseball, for one example.

Remember what the one guy said in the quote I put up: The only reason he even goes to college is to play football. We need to stop the student-athlete canard.

Are the colleges, especially at the Division I/FBS level, actually colleges, or criminal fronts for minor league sports franchises?

We need to stop the belief that these are actually students. If they get their degrees and the like, that's excellent -- and many do and God bless them for doing so and taking advantage of the legal opportunity given to them.

The problem is simple: These are not students. The schools do not conform to the NCAA rules (if they do, they have no meaningful players to speak of, especially with this sort of competition). There is massive criminal conspiracy, up to and including the NCAA (else a number, if not all, of the major programs would be closed).

The solution is to understand reality. The football players come in in August for camp. They play August-January, get a couple months off to heal, then Spring Practice and the intrasquad Spring Game. Then who knows what until August again.

These aren't students. It's time for the NCAA to either shut down this enterprise as we know it or do the one thing the BC$ was designed to do: Force the NCAA out of major-college football and create a true minor league, with very few relevant teams and a bunch of cannon fodder.