Check out how the NCAA does business. If a 18 to 22 year old young man lies to the NCAA they lose an entire season and possibly their collegiate career, but if one of the coaches lies to the NCAA they lose a game or two. Is that right?
Shouldn’t an older person who is in a responsible position be held to a higher standard?
It’s immoral for a teenager to be held to a higher standard than a middle-aged man in a position of responsibility. Could you imagine if parents were held to a lower standard than the children they are raising? That’s an immoral policy.
That’s called the “Good Old Boy” network.
Ohio State Buckeyes football coach Jim Tressel, who is making nearly $4 million dollars a year for coaching the school’s football team, will miss two games next year and be fined $250,000 dollars. Yes that is the school’s penalty before the NCAA steps in but what makes you think the NCAA is going to issue a penalty that’s substantially more.
If you look at the NCAA’s track record, they’ve let other coaches slide and will likely let Tressel slide as well.
Notice that Terrelle Pryor and the other Buckeye players who were caught selling memorabilia for tattoos will miss five games because they lied about it to the NCAA.
UConn’s head basketball coach Jim Calhoun was recently caught violating NCAA rules. Remember that these guys have been in their positions for decades. They know the rules. How severely will Calhoun be punished? A few 
games next season is all he will have to pay. Understand that these coaches are making millions of dollars. Why not pay them with a college scholarship for a year and see how long they remain at the school?
Tennessee’s basketball coach Bruce Pearl has been caught cheating at least a couple of times, yet he’s only had to miss a few games.
What’s the lesson to learn in this story? Tell the truth if you’re an athlete or you might lose your career. If you’re a coach, go ahead and lie because it’s only going to cost you a game or two.
Ok, for one, the NCAA didn’t punish Jim Tressel yet — that’s Ohio States punishment.
And that’s all I have to say because I’m down owning GCOBB all the time.
The NCAA is a microcosm of what’s wrong in American Society in General..
You have middle-aged white men in stuffed shirts sitting in their beautiful offices in Indianapolis & Kansas City making Hundreds of Millions of $$$ off of young college age athletes and want to treat their student-athletes like cattle. They are manipulative, arrogant and not worthy of the position they hold… These are the same type of bs a**holes that are running Wall Street, BIg Oil Companies, Our Government, our Court Houses and our Military ..
It’s a shame that American has become like this, but it has..
The hypocrisy is so thick you can cut it with a knife. We in society are the enablers of these pompous men. We purchase their product and don’t act to call them out for their ridiculous ways. think about it, a coach makes 4 MILLION dollars a year, will lose his job if he loses games, and then is told not to cheat. The athletes are actively discouraged from taking real ( meaning one must put in study time) classes, and don’t have nearly enough credits to graduate when their eligibility is up. I was a scholarship track athlete who was pre- med and made all-american. My track coach was angry at me all four of my college years because 1) I didn’t redshirt my freshman year, and 2) I had to have an altered practice schedule to take my science lab classes which often occurred during normal practice time. I am now an Orthopedic surgeon. The system is flawed at it’s most basic principle, the ” student athlete”. Yeah right!!
Funny Birdo but your down owning GCOBB how about owning some verbal or typing skills. You know the gist of this article so stop nitpicking and yes that is Ohio State’s punishment but in reality he should be fired for lying to the NCAA but that won’t happen, would he did was far worse then what the kids did.