Jim Tressel Has Resigned

[SmoothPancakes]

dude, you are talking about morals and intelligence and none of that applies here.
Major college sports is a black market..yes of course people are responsible for their actions but this is a privileged world in major ncaa sports. You cant compare guys who inlist in the military or military colleges to self absorbed all star athletes.

and even some of the best raised kids dont think properly at that young age. The older you get you will realize no kid gets it. Thats called wisdom and takes a while to sink in.
they are still influenced by the people around them and when a top 20 school bends all the rules, that is considered the norm and everyone follows..each individual has to take his own life into account, but on a mass level you cant blame the kids as much as leaders who make it and let it happen.

sure,we all say a scholorship is enough but in truth, thats minimal exchange for national tv exposure and everything else that comes with it

And they need to start changing that if it's a black market. If you get caught like Pryor, Clarett, Bush, etc, hell, strip them permanently of all eligibility, strip them of their athletic scholarships, if the NCAA could get away with it, kick their ass out of college. They need to make this shit a death sentence to players who are caught doing this shit.

And yes, I still say they are as much to blame, and to me, more than, as the coaches and administration. While the coaches and administrations need to do MORE than what they are now to make sure none of this is happening, it still all STARTS with the players. It takes a player accepting this crap to begin this whole process. Again, every orientaton and meeting and class they go through, they know DAMN WELL that this crap they are doing and accepting are entirely illegal.

It's called these "I'm gonna take what I want and don't give a damn about the laws/rules" douchebags are being recruited for their athletic talent and that only. If the NCAA and schools would start actually giving a damn about the STUDENT portion of student athlete again, and not be admitting these dumbass 20 IQ atheletes solely for their ability to run a football, we'd be able to run these thugs out of the school and clean shit up.

And I don't give a damn what the hell they think they are entitled to or should receive "because their scholarship is minimal exchange for national tv exposure and everything else that comes with it". They KNOW that legally, that scholarship is ALL that they can receive. If they have a problem with that, then don't sign the goddamn thing. They have absolutely no problem signing and accepting that scholarship, and the limitations of it, when they're in HS.

And if they're too immature or too stupid to realize what they are signing and agreeing to when they sign that scholarship, and don't like it later, too goddamn bad. You should have paid a little more attention earlier when you agreed to it. I can't sign a contract for something here in the real world and then decided 6 months later or a year later that I don't like it because I didn't bother to read it all and take the time to realize what I'm signing.

I'm only 24, I sit here working long ass hours and don't get paid as much as I think I should, but you don't see me taking money from the cash box, or putting down a bunch of hours I didn't work. And while not a direct analogy, it's similar. These players think they should be getting more than just their scholarship, and are taking money from other sources. I think I should get paid more from my job, but I don't take money from other sources or through other processes.

And for the record, I think they should be damn glad they get a scholarship and free ride. Even with a partial academic scholarship that I got, I still will be paying student loans off for a while. Yet they're bitching because even though they are getting their college entirely paid for, and a good portion will be making hundreds of thousands and millions of dollars in four years or less (especially these top talent players who WILL be going into the NFL, and are the ones getting caught), they think they should get a bunch of stuff right now. Bullshit.

And for the people saying "well, they're practicing every day, have team meetings and other stuff that make it impossible to have a job at all or have a job that they can make any money worth a damn at", it's called compromise. You want to play college football, you're gonna have to suck it up and deal with not being able to work. You want to work and get money to spend, don't play college football. It's called making choices. People do it in the real world. These crybaby bitches can suck it up and do the same thing.