Meant to do this post closer to the Don's (Goodell's) announcement, but what the hey... Had to mourn the passing of one of the longer regular-season winning streaks in recent Wisconsin memory. Good job, Spring Valley -- even though the ol' school at Plum City finally falls on harder football times, you still gotta do it.
Anyhoo... One of the bigger stories of the week is that the decision was finally made on Terrell Pryor (the thug QB at Ohio State who fled, rather than face the music)...
He gets into the Supplemental Draft (which he probably had a hand in further delaying), but the five-game suspension comes with him. He won't appeal that.
Now, Mr. Goodell, you do realize that you have now suspended Pryor 2 1/2 times what you did Michael Vick.
Of course, this would be moot if you didn't use another Ohio State miscreant to make a point a few years back.
I call it the Maurice Clarett Rule (with the Reggie Bush Clause).
The Clarett Rule would read that any player who leaves college while under suspension by his school or the NCAA loses a year. This means that a player leaving after his three years must sit out a fourth (completely without football) to get in the NFL. A player getting suspended during the fourth year must sit a fifth.
The Bush Clause is two-fold. First, that carries over to players found later ineligible while they are in the NFL -- a player who would otherwise fall under the Clarett Rule when he entered the league is suspended, without pay, for one year.
The second part of the Bush Clause is that any player suspended under Clarett or Bush is re-investigated to determine if any portion of his relevant eligibility (read as: what got him in the NFL) was legal at all. If not, he's GONE -- permanent ban.
Fraud is serious business, and it's time to see how many of these players should never have played in college nor the NFL.
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