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Beautiful Bowl Championship Series

[The people who run the BCS] have allowed their athletic programs to run completely amok. The two people who symbolize what the BCS stands for are, without question, Miami President Donna Shalala, who did everything but rename her school “Shapiro U” while currently jailed booster Nevin Shapiro was lavishing money on her and the one-time “U,” and, of course, Ohio State President Gordon Gee, whose two trademarks are his bow tie and his foot planted firmly inside his mouth.

It was Gee who made himself the Neville Chamberlain of college athletics last spring when he was asked if he would consider firing Jim Tressel as football coach and he replied with a straight face, “Fire him? I just hope he doesn’t fire me.”

The shame of it is that Tressel didn’t stay at Ohio State long enough to get around to firing Gee before Tressel left in disgrace. Of course, the NCAA, led by its top stooge, President Mark Emmert, has been so busy calling meetings and being shocked to learn that cheating is going on that it has yet to take any action against anyone — and will probably come down with a really hard wrist slap when the time finally comes.

John Feinstein, Washington Post

Margaret Soltan, October 23, 2011 8:13PM
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  1. University Diaries » ‘It’s an athletic culture gone sick, as college sports has grown into a multibillion-dollar business, distorting standards that bind together healthy societies, and pushing imperfect people atop pedestals.’ Says:

    […] En effet, mes petites, it can’t be changed. That’s why the harshest critics of it resort to comedy, as in the hilarious yearly Fulmer Awards for the team with the most arrests among its players. A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling, said Nietzsche, and all the smartest critics of college football and baseball are jokesters. They’re way past feeling anything about it. Do you think Italians at this point do anything other than tell each other jokes about the mafia? University football and basketball have settled in, and if you don’t believe me, look at the guy running the biggest joke of them all – the NCAA. Scroll down for the skinny on Mark Emmert, aka “top stooge.” […]

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