It’s an unavoidable task of a blog like University Diaries to go to where the big-time university sports fans are, and to listen to them with care.
I read this sort of thing on a regular basis.
I re-read it. I circle around it. I pore over it.
It’s always the same: A halting recital of the current top rung of university sports scandals. A few forced laughs along the way. A final pledge to do all one can to deny that they happened.
It’s a guy thing.
UD‘s not a guy.
UD likes guys.
She knows that guys power the billion dollar tv contracts that have killed any number of universities as serious institutions. But she still likes guys. She likes this guy.
Like all guys, he’s basically Blanche Dubois: Ah see the world ah wanna see. Like her, he deserves our effort to understand, and our pity.
September 13th, 2012 at 4:54PM
Congratulations on restraining Scathing Online Schoolmarm this time. That prose doesn’t even rise to the level of deserving parody. We wouldn’t want a lot of insensitive biggots calling the shots at a plethora of schools, would we?
September 13th, 2012 at 5:02PM
adam: Yeah. Shooting fish in a barrel.
September 14th, 2012 at 12:25AM
I don’t think he’s trying to excuse it. He’s just bring it out to the public.
What caught my eye was the part about the former Duke player who (allegedly) owes his jeweler 70k for “custom bling” Doesn’t Duke teach its players that if you buy that much bling you don’t go retail?