OT: Urban Meyer Says: "Cardale Jones STILL didn't come to play School" (paraphrased)
Oh, those pesky college class requirements for COLLEGE athletes. They apparently get in the way of player development, especially in the case of Cardale Jones.
Jones infamously stated that he "ain't come to play SCHOOL", and his coach Urban Meyer backs up why this was such a concern to Mr. Jones:
“A really good skill set, intellectual, very smart, wasn’t necessarily very good at school. I wonder if that kind of set him back a little bit. That’s one difference between pro and college — now he doesn’t have to worry about classes and going to school and all that stuff. He can focus completely on football.”
I am sure Mr. Jones is much relieved that the burden of getting an education no longer stands in the way of football. We can also all breathe a sigh of relief for this heavily burdened young man. /s
Hardly.
The situations aren't related and really aren't very similar. FabFive paid money to come to MICHIGAN and as a fellow Fall 91 Frosh, can at least say I saw them in classes and with tutors.
Look at Northwestern. They were freaking shaving points and FIXING GAMES..! Yet there's rarely mention of that scandal.
But this is why I don't ever play the stupid game of pretending that transgressions don't occur everywhere.
osu's basketball scandal was exactly along the lines of "not playing school" at that school.
April 20th, 2016 at 10:50 AM ^
We can agree that these types of things, with degrees of variance happen at every school and are part of what the NCAA governs. As far as comparing the different situations and calling one worse than another, I think that depends on what color jersey you're wearing, right?!
The Not-So-Fab Five played fast and loose with the rules just like the other examples you noted and had to pay the price when the truths were revealed.
Taking money from booster, fixing games and not playing school are not just this school or that school, it's many times a case of which school gets caught and which schools don't.