Scandal fatigue with the NCAA began setting in a long time ago. The long wait for penalties in the USC case started it; the Penn State penalties, misconduct in the Miami case, and lack of action on UNC’s academic scandal were other major milestones.
The NFL’s recent history has gotten more people asking even harder questions about what the important scandals are in the sports world. College football has not been immune either. Jameis Winston, Treon Harris, Treyvon Paulk, Dorial Green-Beckham, and Devonte Fields are all part of the same trend, with more scrutiny on how teams handle allegations of assaults, especially violence against women. And less on who might be trying to make a buck here and there.
Go ahead and get rich off of university athletics! That’s a trifle here.
October 12th, 2014 at 9:14AM
“Getting rich” is not the point here, at least insofar as that means overpaid coaches and such; this is about amateurism standards for players. Todd Gurley was suspended over a few hundred bucks.