It's bad enough when you have a Heisman favorite, entering his junior year, actually considering sitting out the year rather than risk injury.
That's a post in and of itself, but I've got two more for you.
First, Florida State, thanks to Miami's ineligibility issues, had to play a 6-6 Georgia Tech team to win the ACC Championship and participate in this year's BCS.
To show how complete of bullshit this was: Florida State now owes the conference nearly a half a million dollars.
Nobody was interested in seeing Florida State vs. Georgia Tech.
And I mean NOBODY... The ACC might've said nearly 65,000 tickets were distributed, but not close to half of them were sold, and you could've gotten in for five bucks by the time the game was starting, according to one reputable ticket site.
Each team is given a block of 10,000 tickets to sell. So few people were interested in the sham which became the ACC Championship Game that Florida State could not nearly 4/5 of that amount, resulting in a contractual $440,000 loss.
The ACC is looking into ways this can be prevented.
Hey, morons: How about just ignoring "The Show Must Go On" and recognizing that there are games which just SHOULD NOT BE PLAYED...
And that wasn't the only conference title game which should've been scrapped. Too bad the other game which should've been scrapped was actually won by the team which never should've been there (third-place Wisconsin).
And then we get to the latest debacle out of our two-time defending national champion, Alabama.
It now appears that at least three "student"-athletes will be thrown out of the school entirely (they are banned from the campus pending campus judicial review, them and a fourth are suspended off the team, and all face charges) for a series of assaults and thefts on the Tuscaloosa campus.
Three of them took part in a pair of assaults on the campus, and a fourth is charged with the use of a stolen credit card. Someone has to explain to me how, under NCAA rules, Tyler Hayes, Eddie Williams, and DJ Pettway had $60-65,000 to post bail...
Three of the four players are 20, so it's evident that those three have probably been there for both national championships. The other is 18, probably meaning he was a freshman.
But to take the step to expel them, during classes, from the campus indicates that they probably are not coming back.
Welcome to the Alabama Penitentiary League, motherfuckers.
When is somebody going to finally see all the fire for all the smoke which has been rising from the Rolling Crimson Tide...
Around the bowl and down the hole, Roll Tide Roll...
And take the farce of "college" football with you...
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