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Washington Post (Sally Jenkins) - NCAA created culture that drove Laremy Tunsil toward low-lifes

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The initial fallout from Tunsil’s tumble in the NFL draft involved a lot of lectures about the perils of social media and moral posturing by the NFL on the harms of marijuana — most of which is nonsense and none of which is the real evil. The real evil is the underground economy on which college football has long rested, which has grown to include a seriously mean criminal element.

The worst part of this subterranean economy is the way it criminalizes the wrong people for perfectly trivial behavior. Text messages from Tunsil’s hacked Instagram account, another little bit of vengeance, show that in February and April 2015, Tunsil texted Ole Miss assistant athletic director John Miller asking for financial help that amounted to less than $500. It also shows Miller quibbling with him.

Tunsil: “Coach, Mom’s light bill is due. It’s $305. What should I do about it?”

Miller: “Wow — for one month??”

That a player with a million-dollar future had to scratch around for a couple hundred dollars so that his mother’s lights wouldn’t get shut off is the situation that presumably motivated him to accept help from someone a lot worse than an assistant coach.

Opponents of a free market in college sports say this is a doomsday scenario. But the scenario of doom already exists. Coaches and alumni have created independent funds for supplementing scholarships with cash. There are bidding wars for players and an ever-widening gap between rich schools and poorer ones. All of this already is happening.
 
Washington Post (Sally Jenkins) - NCAA created culture that drove Laremy Tunsil toward low-lifes

Excerpts...

The initial fallout from Tunsil’s tumble in the NFL draft involved a lot of lectures about the perils of social media and moral posturing by the NFL on the harms of marijuana — most of which is nonsense and none of which is the real evil. The real evil is the underground economy on which college football has long rested, which has grown to include a seriously mean criminal element.

The worst part of this subterranean economy is the way it criminalizes the wrong people for perfectly trivial behavior. Text messages from Tunsil’s hacked Instagram account, another little bit of vengeance, show that in February and April 2015, Tunsil texted Ole Miss assistant athletic director John Miller asking for financial help that amounted to less than $500. It also shows Miller quibbling with him.

Tunsil: “Coach, Mom’s light bill is due. It’s $305. What should I do about it?”

Miller: “Wow — for one month??”

That a player with a million-dollar future had to scratch around for a couple hundred dollars so that his mother’s lights wouldn’t get shut off is the situation that presumably motivated him to accept help from someone a lot worse than an assistant coach.

Opponents of a free market in college sports say this is a doomsday scenario. But the scenario of doom already exists. Coaches and alumni have created independent funds for supplementing scholarships with cash. There are bidding wars for players and an ever-widening gap between rich schools and poorer ones. All of this already is happening.

The John Oliver expose earlier the thread is very good.
 
Washington Post (Sally Jenkins) - NCAA created culture that drove Laremy Tunsil toward low-lifes

Excerpts...

The initial fallout from Tunsil’s tumble in the NFL draft involved a lot of lectures about the perils of social media and moral posturing by the NFL on the harms of marijuana — most of which is nonsense and none of which is the real evil. The real evil is the underground economy on which college football has long rested, which has grown to include a seriously mean criminal element.

The worst part of this subterranean economy is the way it criminalizes the wrong people for perfectly trivial behavior. Text messages from Tunsil’s hacked Instagram account, another little bit of vengeance, show that in February and April 2015, Tunsil texted Ole Miss assistant athletic director John Miller asking for financial help that amounted to less than $500. It also shows Miller quibbling with him.

Tunsil: “Coach, Mom’s light bill is due. It’s $305. What should I do about it?”

Miller: “Wow — for one month??”

That a player with a million-dollar future had to scratch around for a couple hundred dollars so that his mother’s lights wouldn’t get shut off is the situation that presumably motivated him to accept help from someone a lot worse than an assistant coach.

Opponents of a free market in college sports say this is a doomsday scenario. But the scenario of doom already exists. Coaches and alumni have created independent funds for supplementing scholarships with cash. There are bidding wars for players and an ever-widening gap between rich schools and poorer ones. All of this already is happening.

Tunsil was getting A LOT more than ~$300/month. That's why when he came back and asked for more the guy responded the way he did and made the we had an agreed upon amount comment.

Sally contradicts herself a little bit here because if the market was as free and gap widening as it is then the expected #1 pick in the NFL draft wouldn't have to "scratch around for a couple hundred dollars".
 
Tunsil was getting A LOT more than ~$300/month. That's why when he came back and asked for more the guy responded the way he did and made the we had an agreed upon amount comment.

Sally contradicts herself a little bit here because if the market was as free and gap widening as it is then the expected #1 pick in the NFL draft wouldn't have to "scratch around for a couple hundred dollars".

I don't have a problem with a coach paying for a kids mom electricity to stay on, I think there should be some funds available to these kids in emergencies, but if anyone thinks that this kid was just getting money for him mom's bills is delusional.
 

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