Classy. The Oklahoma State University librarian who according to tons of former football players wrote all of their papers for them has counterattacked. They’re all demented, see. One too many blows to the helmet.
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OSU pushed “players into easier majors, notably sociology.”
It’ll be interesting to hear what professors in the OSU sociology department – handmaiden of the football flunkies – have to say in their defense.
… “You don’t have to do anything. If you go to class, they’ll give you a C because they care about Oklahoma State football.”
Former wide receiver Artrell Woods told the magazine he didn’t write “a single paper” while at OSU, but rather had completed work dictated to him by a tutor.
Said former defensive tackle Brad Girtman, “Are you kidding me? I didn’t go there to go to school. I went there to play football.”
One of the former players named among those who received improper academic assistance is all-Big 12 wide receiver Dez Bryant, currently with the Dallas Cowboys. Sports Illustrated quotes a former assistant coach, who said of Bryant, “He just wasn’t supposed to be there. There’s no way he could do the college work. Once he got there, he was connected with the people that would help him.”
Maybe they’ll say the same thing the librarian did. The many players making these accusations are hopelessly gaga after years of tackles.
But it would be more seemly for people at this prostituted school to be honest about it. There’s a Jacobean comedy called The Honest Whore, and it would be truly wonderful, a wonderful thing for the American university, if the current madam of OSU – the university’s president, I assume – would honestly admit that OSU has been a sports bordello. Professors and advisors there should emulate Sonia, the redeemed prostitute of Crime and Punishment, and pray for divine release.
September 12th, 2013 at 10:20PM
Deadspin appears to have largely eviscerated most of the criticisms of the OSU Sociology Department largely by — wait for it — doing something SI did not think to do: calling someone in the Sociology Department.
There is too much to this story for this to discredit the bulk of it, but at the same time, nothing undermines the credibility of the whole than sloppiness in parts.
Dcat