I ain’t embarrassed to use the word; I’m talking about ethics.

by Sailor Ripley on Apr 25, 2011 5:23 PM CDT in Texas Longhorns and Other Football

Johnny Caspar asks Leo if the points being made about ethics are clear. Leo's reply: "As mud."

Scanning the college headlines lately when the NCAA comes up has left me feeling much the same way.

I always try to relate things to some scene in Miller's Crossing. If there isn't a ready fit, I then go to Belle de Jour, but that's another story.

Recently we asked the rhetorical question who likes knockers and golf? The obvious answer was pretty much everyone. Even lesbians. And especially John Junker.

You will recall that John was paid mid six figures to make it rain and play golf. Apparently, the NCAA says that's a no no.

So the NCAA convenes one of its many collections of mandarins, this one called the NCAA Postseason Bowl Licensing Subcommittee (you can't make this shit up), to get to the bottom of this tangled mess of table dances and boat drinks.

Many people think the concept of a jury or one's peers is a constitutional right but in fact that verbiage doesn't appear anywhere in the sixth amendment. Nonetheless, it is an enduring belief in America and one that the NCAA takes very, very seriously.

This is the reason the membership who will rule on whether the Fiesta Bowl will retain its NCAA license comprises at least nine people who accepted a three-day golf trip from the Bowl Championship Series' Fiesta Bowl.

It was called the Fiesta Frolic.

Somebody needs to be treated like Eddie The Dane. Or Rug Daniels.

Oh and the committee will meet to discuss this hot topic in New Orleans. New Orleans. You want to get shit done, go to Muncie. You want to wake up with a glazed face and a tattoo, go to New Orleans.

We're all getting a pretty good idea why it's the "Fiesta" Bowl.

Johnny Caspar just wants a framework. He wants to know the ground rules. I think I know what the NCAA would say if you asked to it to look in to its heart.

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Great flick. Great post. And to think these NCAA mob bosses continue to give playoff talk the high hat. Makes me want to get these guys in a room with Tic Tac.

by Jesus Shuttlesworth on Apr 25, 2011 5:33 PM CDT reply actions

Awesome. Tell ’em to take it on the heel and toe.

by Juan Beniquez on Apr 25, 2011 5:37 PM CDT reply actions

Oh, come on, Tommy. You know I don’t like to think.
Yeah. Well, think about whether you should start.

by Mad Clapper on Apr 25, 2011 5:51 PM CDT reply actions

Now I have to watch Miller’s Crossing tonight.

It’s getting really hard to find the good guys in college sports (revenue generating) isn’t it.

by Rasputin on Apr 25, 2011 6:24 PM CDT reply actions

always put one in the brain.

by massordnance on Apr 25, 2011 6:24 PM CDT reply actions

This post put a smile on my face. Thanks. The NCAA, the BCS, et al. It really is all just a bunch of rackets isn’t it?

by Branch Rickey on Apr 25, 2011 6:27 PM CDT reply actions

Since a good friend of mine has season tickets to the Fiesta bowl, and the associated tickets to the MNC game when its in Glendale, I see no reason to inflict any punishment whatsoever on the Fiesta.

Indeed I spent a good part of this past years pre MNC game playing (bad) golf. Of course I had to pay for my own, but if John Junker were to volunteer to pay some green fees for me and my boys, I wouldn’t call the NCAA.

By the way, if I was Johnny Caspar (or in this case Johnny Junker) and the NCAA was moving in on my action, I would send Tom Reagan to infiltrate certain Dallas based entities with billion dollar stadiums and or billionaires with an interest in a college football playoff.

Or maybe Johnny Junker is Tom Reagan and Johnny Casper is from Dallas. I’m having a hard time keeping up now

by roach on Apr 25, 2011 6:30 PM CDT reply actions

Now if you can’t trust a fix, what can you trust?

by Salt Pillar on Apr 25, 2011 7:16 PM CDT reply actions

Oh and the committee will meet to discuss this hot topic in New Orleans. New Orleans. You want to get shit done, go to Muncie. You want to wake up with a glazed face and a tattoo, go to New Orleans.

B12’s been known to hold “spring meetings” — you know, the ones where they decide not to fix the football tiebreaker — in places such as Beaver Creek, Colorado (although maybe not anymore). I thought I remembered them doing something in Carlsbad, too, but if not, there would be some place similar.

by Bob in Houston on Apr 25, 2011 7:44 PM CDT reply actions