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The NCAA Cartel and Integritude

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I’m sure that this will restore the dignity of amateur athletics, or something:

Ohio State players facing five-game suspensions next season would not have traveled with the team to the Allstate Sugar Bowl if they had not pledged to return in 2011, coach Jim Tressel said on Thursday. The five players, including quarterback Terrelle Pryor, have been punished by the NCAA for selling championship rings and memorabilia and taking discounts from a tattoo parlor.

Tressel said he wanted to make sure that the players wouldn’t “skirt the consequences” by playing in the Sugar Bowl, then declaring for the NFL draft and avoiding any punishment.” We told them they would have to make the decision on the NFL prior to leaving for the bowl game,” Tressel said at his first Sugar Bowl news conference. “It wouldn’t be fair to not face the consequences down the road.”

I sure am glad that Jim Tressel has his players best interests at heart, and wants to make sure that they learn disciplintegritude and what not. It would be a shame if these players “skirt[ed] the consequences” of the absurd NCAA sanctions that have been applied to them.

You know, for all that crap that John Calipari gets, I trust him (far more than I trust the NCAA) to have a degree of appreciation for the economic incentives that elite college athletes actually face. There was no misunderstanding in the relationship between John Wall and the University of Kentucky, and minimal lip service to the “amateur athlete” bullshit that apparently prevails at OSU.

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