[Jim Harbaugh, Stanford’s football coach, showed that] winning at football didn’t come by sacrificing honor, losing players on the Pac-10 All-Academic team, getting player[s] on the police blotter or incurring NCAA ire related to recruiting violations, impermissible benefits, improper agent contact, academic fraud or other controversies common to our BCS title contenders.
I like the or other controversies. Sentence was getting too long.
January 12th, 2011 at 10:36AM
It’s also an attempted end-of-sentence semantic shift to “I’m not actually accusing anyone of doing these things.”