The hardest thing to stomach...

[garnermike]

...beyond what happened to the kids abused by Sandusky (and, indirectly, by the parties abetting the cover-up), is the two-faced media.

So many in the media had, for years, been criticizing the NCAA for being toothless in confronting the big-time college sports culture, for taking forever to follow its own violations investigative process and to make a sanction decision, and for imposing sanctions that were puzzling and/or meaningless.

So what happened after the "45 minutes of PSU infamy" NCAA news conference yesterday, one in which the NCAA wielded a swift sword of sanctions to the gut of one of the major bastions of big time CFB? What happened when the organizing/governing body of collegiate athletics in the U.S. decided "enough is enough," suspends its "normal" process, and empowers its leadership to impose corrective measures fitting the horrendous crime committed by one of its member institutions?

Well, as we've all seen and heard, a substantial amount of the media (including several of the talking heads @ ESPN) lambast the NCAA for working outside of its regular investigative/sanctioning procedures, for imposing sanctions that are simply too harsh (described as worse than the death penalty, by many in the media), and for taking an unnecessary full whack at the image, reputation, and fiber of a top-level college FB program.

I find that I'm switching TV channels and stopping my reading of quite few sports commentaries midstream because I start to gag.

Attn: sports media. Can't have it both ways. You either wanted the NCAA to assert itself or you didn't.

 

[orangecuse]

...beyond what happened to the kids abused by Sandusky (and, indirectly, by the parties abetting the cover-up), is the two-faced media.

So many in the media had, for years, been criticizing the NCAA for being toothless in confronting the big-time college sports culture, for taking forever to follow its own violations investigative process and to make a sanction decision, and for imposing sanctions that were puzzling and/or meaningless.

So what happened after the "45 minutes of PSU infamy" NCAA news conference yesterday, one in which the NCAA wielded a swift sword of sanctions to the gut of one of the major bastions of big time CFB? What happened when the organizing/governing body of collegiate athletics in the U.S. decided "enough is enough," suspends its "normal" process, and empowers its leadership to impose corrective measures fitting the horrendous crime committed by one of its member institutions?

Well, as we've all seen and heard, a substantial amount of the media (including several of the talking heads @ ESPN) lambast the NCAA for working outside of its regular investigative/sanctioning procedures, for imposing sanctions that are simply too harsh (described as worse than the death penalty, by many in the media), and for taking an unnecessary full whack at the image, reputation, and fiber of a top-level college FB program.

I find that I'm switching TV channels and stopping my reading of quite few sports commentaries midstream because I start to gag.

Attn: sports media. Can't have it both ways. You either wanted the NCAA to assert itself or you didn't.

I thought one of the best comments of the day was by Chris Fowler immediately after the NCAA presser. He was basically responding to what Emmert said about Institutions allowing/putting football/athletics, etc. in front of everything else...at all costs, too big to fail, govern, etc. Fowler's response was along the lines of...us who've been covering college sports for years now...really, well duh, that ship has long sailed...etc., etc...like, where have you been Emmert? Pretty comical, but how true!

 

[Crusty]

garnermike is 100% correct. These guys all talk out of both side3s of their mouths. They now offer up their self-serving comments trying to sound intelligent and they just reveal themselves to be fools.

 

[garnermike]

Let me add another great example here. Guy dumps on NCAA sanctions, and in a woulda-coulda-shoulda tome, says a 1-year DP would have been better. Really? What a tool....