OT: Four Auburn Players Arrested
So, this happened this weekend: http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/15447512/carlton-davis-i…
In and of itself, no big deal (weed infractions are, to me, silly, but they're illegal nonetheless). But this made me think: While the SEC has been going all church-lady against the injustice of satellite camps, here are the things (off the top of my head) that have happened (just this year):
-Tennessee's massive institutional problem with sexual assault is revealed (with or without Peyton's teabagging);
-Auburn's top talent (including 2015's ESPN #1 player) likes weed;
-Ole Miss is discovered to openly give players money, and train them to smoke from a gas mask (in front of the Confederate Battle Flag);
-Bama has a coach quit under scandalous circumstances (stay tuned, I hope);
-Little Vandy has a highly publicized rape case settled;
-Missouri has a race problem that trickles into its sports;
-LSU is basically broke;
-Arkansas has a fat fraternity bro as its coach (sorry, this was gratuitous);
-But at least in football, UK looks clean, as does T A&M and South Carolina! WOO HOO!!
Am I missing anything? I know conferences go through rough patches. Heck, the B1G had UM and OSU get dinged at about the same time (for stretching and tattoos) a few years ago. But for a bunch of holier-than-thou folks who claim to lead the way in the sport, to cry foul about camps designed to help kids you'd think these yahoos would look inward a little more...
I think you misspelled folks there towards the end. It reads better as "holier-than-thou fucks"
Hypocrisy is rampant, the sky is blue, this is my surprised face:
Gerrard...
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thats where he says "I dare you to try and think this stuff up" or it's where he saw his deputy laugh at what he read in the paper about the guy burying people in his back yard. No Country for Old Men... Fantastic movie...
Gus is making great strides cleaning up that program.
Not sure I'd ever refer to SEC fans as "holier-than-thou." Most of them know their programs cheat and they really don't care.
The same feeling is strong at OSU as well. They really don't care if their team cheats and they will tell you as much.
I wasn't thinking of the mouth-breathing fans, but rather the administration and leaders. The Sankey's and Saban's and their ilk sure claim to rep the sport as a whole.
IIRC, pennslyvania has the same law. If so, can we cast them off to the ess eee see???
I ask what ever happened to the "Cheaters never win and winners never cheat" saying??
While there many issues with SEC schools and others, the criminal stuff should be left to the police. The NCAA's incompetence has no place in sexual assault or rape cases.
I understand your point, though. It is clear there are different priorities there and since it is quasi-pro ball down there, coaches are under a lot of pressure to win and seem to have no mandate or incentive to run a clean program.
The state governments just need to legalize marijuana already. For me, I get almost the same feeling from marijuana as I do from alcohol. I can argue that the effects of alcohol are worse than those of marijuana. If they tax it, the states can make a lot of money from it AND focus on fighting worse drugs.
I am smoking high-quality legal weed right now. Rocky Mountain high...hard to beat springtime in the Rockies. Land of the FREE!!!
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I will say that it is definitely the case that the SEC has zero room to complain, nor can they honestly tell anyone they've been "thinking of the children" this whole time because clearly the student, in their mind, is what you scrape off your Johnston & Murphy loafers.
Like most conferences, they have their own culture in a way, in this case one with a noted lack of introspection and sometimes self-awareness. The funny thing is that networks and certain organizations seem to listen to them despite all that.
As for the Auburn story, yeah, I think that gets a nearly universal "big deal" even if it is illegal, but I assume someone in the Auburn fanbase has the grim duty to pretend to be outraged about this.
Great movie. "Cole Haan Luke", Paul Newman, George Kennedy, etc. Great.
is a failure to communicate'
On the one hand, I like weed and it makes me angry whenever someone has a legal problem because of its illegality.
On the other hand, I hate pretty much everything south of Toledo.
and New Orleans a great deal. I think you're a little narrow minded Hatter.
You see that up there over your head? That was the joke.
/but seriously, not a fan of most of the former Confederacy
I was awkwardly pointing out just how little there is down there by mentioning two of the good things (and they are very good).
The problem with Dixie is that what could be both great and charming about it is its large rural/small town feel. Globalization and a general shift to a knowledge based economy has hit these sorts of places incredibly hard in the last 30 years and what's left is lots of unemployment and meth and little of the social benefits of modernity.
You missed my joke, and I missed your joke.
Or maybe I just missed your joke and you didn't miss my joke.
It's all very confusing.
But that is absurd. You could say the exact same thing about the state of Michigan.
I live in Washington, where recreational marijuana has been legal (under state law, with the federal CSA not being enforced with respect to simple possession) for several years now. It's gotten to the point that I find it surreal whenever I see a story about somebody in another state being arrested for weed.
I don't specifically know what their policies are, but I have to imagine weed is off limits for college athletes even in Washington or other states where recreational use has been decriminalized. But then you are talking about something that might get you suspended from participation or kicked off the team--not something that will give you a criminal record and the second-class citizenship that goes with it.
Pittsburgh (the geographical, spiritual and NFL center of the universe) is south of Toledo. East Lansing is north of Toledo.
It's a good thing no Michigan player has every been arrested, or gotten in trouble for smoking weed.
Glass houses dude.
I don't think that was the point he was making about weed.
Thank you. In fact, it was the exact opposite. Taken alone, the weed thing to me is literally nothing. As part of a ball of SEC infractions, it counts. But even after I made a point of spelling that out, some giant sack of dick tips needed to do the whole, "weed is OK, glass houses" things. Ugh...
I hope you eat a dick tip sandwich with extra pubes and no mayonaisse, on a stale 3 day old bagguette, so that you have to chew it real hard and it hurts the inside of your mouth.
I hope you like the flavor of that dick tip sandwich so much that you decide to open up a bunch of chain stores that sell dick tip sandwiches, and you end up going out of business because nobody likes dick tip sandwiches except for you, and you blow your whole life savings on this enterprise. I also hope that your wife/girlfriend decides to leave you and take the kids, so that you have to move back in with your parents, who make up really strict rules that you have to live by.
And I hope that I or someone else pisses you off some time soon, because while your original comment deserved the backlash it got, this is top-shelf work.
Hell, I upvoted him for this. Though I am gonna pass on the dry dick tip sandwich. I'm not going through that again...
When you open your stores, you can call them "Frenulums". Your slogan can be "Frenulums - Where Tipping Is Required".
I suggest this only because the name "Sprouts" is already taken by a Whole Foods clone chain in AZ and elsewhere.
You're welcome.
My only regret is that he didn't tie another mention of dick tips in at the end of the rant. That would have been truly genius.
Ok, here is the updated version, that includes more dick tips, since you love dick tips so much too.
I hope you eat a dick tip sandwich with crunchy pubes and no mayonnaise, on a stale 3 day old baguette, so that you have to chew it real hard and it hurts the inside of your mouth.
I hope you like the flavor of that dick tip sandwich so much that you decide to open up a bunch of chain stores that sell dick tip sandwiches, and you end up going out of business because nobody likes dick tip sandwiches except for you, and you blow your whole life savings on this enterprise. I also hope that your wife/girlfriend decides to leave you and take the kids, so that you have to move back in with your parents, who make up really strict rules that you have to live by, such as not being allowed to eat dick tip sandwiches anymore.
I hope that you continue to eat dick tip sandwiches at your parents house in secret, because you love them so much and can't stop, and one day you make a dick tip sandwich and forget it on the counter, and your mom and dad both eat it and love it so much that they decide to they decide to re-invest in your dick tip sandwich shop chain and bring it back. I then hope that your business endeavors fail a second time, and both you and your parents become destitute and have to live in a van, not down by the river where it's nice and scenic, but next to the water treatment plant where it smells like shit.
Thank you Everyone Murders, I do seem to be at my best when I'm irrationally upset over little things, such as getting my wife's name wrong or turning down an Arnold Palmer alert.
Wait! Never mind I will live longer not knowing, I'm sure
"This one's got the vodka honey!"