College Football News Roundup

Good for Coach Rhoads! I love what he’s doing with that team.

Aggy should have made a run at Rhoads

I guess Bill Clements will finance Craig James “run”, will be just like old times.

“The Ol’ Ball Coach and South Carolina say they will eliminate 6 scholarships over the next 3 years as part of self-induced penalties for NCAA infractions.”

I’m sorry, that’s not a penalty. That’s a rounding error on the roster.

Make it 6 scholarships PER YEAR FOR 3 YEARS, then we’re starting to talk about “penalties”.

i heard that craig james killed 5 hookers at smu… are the allegations true?

Wow, with the progress that Paul Rhoads is making at Iowa State of all schools, I’m surprised he’d sign onto a 10 year contract extension. If he can bring Iowa State to even semi-relevance, it would be enough for better programs to start looking in his direction when they deal with finding their next coach.

I hope that leave of absence lasts at least until December 29.

Graham knows, indeed.

Congrats Cyclones.

As for NCAA punishment, how about making the schools pay for additional scholarships but take away money with fines, bowl games, television appearances and ability to be employed by a NCAA institution? That’s what I call punishment for the guilty. Violators would rue the day they dared cheat. Unfortunately, the NCAA became spineless after they gave SMU the death penalty.

A pox on Penn State ever more. Whether they like it or not, funding anything to do with child abuse prevention now does not absolve them from their role as accomplice in Sandusky’s crimes. They created more victims through inaction and cover up, and it is unforgivable.

Just remember, aspiring politicos, “it’s better to be caught in bed with a dead hooker than a live boy”. (Penn State and Syracuse U are desperately trying to incorporate these lyrics in to their fight songs.)

I’m not sure I’m outraged by one of the South Carolina infractions.

The hotel in question is not the Four Seasons: you almost expect its ads to feature footage by Adam James.

I think Leach only really put Craig’s kid in the closet because he knew the police were coming to question him about the 5 dead hookers. The civil suit and the book are all a smoke screen. What they need to do is dig up the bones to chemically test them for the "Craig James Douchiness" bacteria (CSI style) that has been known to have affected most of the ESPN staff, especially that of "Doctor Lou", who sounds like he’s gargling skeet-skeet when he talks. This is likely due to the excessive salivation caused by the bacteria.

Released in the grand jury testimony is the fact that Joe Paterno knew quite a lot about the allegations against Sandusky as long ago as 2002…and still did essentially nothing. I have no outrage apt for such gross dereliction of duty and decency. I’m left stunned and bewildered. What COULD the man have been thinking??? Any football legacy he had has now been buried under the steaming pile of shit which is his sense of morality and integrity. I can think of no way it can ever be disinterred from it.

As for those who would burn Penn State the institution with those who betrayed it…
Consider if such a thing happened at UT. Would you burn it?
The institution is bigger than, and not at all the same as, the individuals who might happen to be in charge at any given time. The institution consists of its legacy, its alumni, its achievements, etc., etc.
The men who betrayed that legacy and trust are the criminals here, and I realize that the circle may be a wide one. Most Staters are as shocked and dismayed as anyone else, I’m sure (I don’t actually know any; I’m projecting). The institution is damaged, but with good leadership can recover.
As for football sanctions, don’t be ridiculous. The NCAA only gives penalties for real crimes like lying about things that weren’t actually violations in the first place.

Craig James has never denied killing five hookers while enrolled at SMU. I personally believe, albeit sans evidence, that he did not sleep with any of those hookers before offing them.

I know the OBGYN who delivered Adam James, and he told me that he had to give an epidural to Craig. Apparently, the vaginas from Celina are too sensitive for

…natural childbirth.

@55f100tx Where’s Bill Clements going to fund Craig James campaign from? The Grave, Bill died in May

So he is gay.
http://news.yahoo.com/miss-mayor-reveals-gay-visiting-gay-sex-shop-142405501.html

I’m concerned that Craig James has not addressed the rumors that Craig James killed 5 hookers at SMU.

JoePa is a truly horrible human being.

Lurker, the difference is that Penn State became Joe Pa University several decades ago. TEXAS has had several larger than life personalities, but none of them have been bigger than the program or the university. Penn State has had only one, and he is everything to them. Without Joe Pa, there quite literally is no Penn State worth talking about.

Certainly Paterno has been the dominant personality on campus and in happy Valley and is their most recognizable representative (though Sandusky is rapidly catching up in that respect), but he is NOT the University.
  In the 2010 report on top research universities from Arizona State’s Center for Measuring University Performance, Penn State comes in at number 29 overall, number 12 among public universities—incidentally, one spot higher than Texas A&M both ways (Texas is 15th and 7th, for comparison). By this one can conclude that Penn State is a respected academic institution. Founded in 1855, the university had a long history before Paterno ever showed up.

  Consider a hypothetical: If Darrell Royal had hung on as coach until today with the kind of success that Paterno has had, then a similar situation occurred to oust him in ignominious fashion, would you be ready to burn the University of Texas? Consider all that UT is and would be with or without football.
  Remember that the scandal at Penn State does not involve the vast majority of the faculty or students. This is something which has happened OUTSIDE the traditions of the university. This happened as an offshoot of the cult of personality surrounding Joe Pa.
  My point is that, regardless of the public recognition of Joe Paterno as the best known representative of Penn State University, he is, in fact, a PERIPHERAL figure to the university’s mission. Football is a peripheral activity when you boil it down to essentials. Penn State would go on without football. Penn State football would not go on without Penn State. If the public forgets that football is not the central purpose of an academic institution like Penn State or The University of Texas, or even the University of Oklahoma, that’s mostly the public’s fault.
  This scandal is damaging to Penn State because of public perception, flawed as it is. That’s why the Penn State Board of Trustees acted rather quickly to fire individuals responsible for the scandal becoming a scandal (the courts will decide the rest). They know that the university is bigger than the individuals who betrayed it.

I’ll stop here. That’s already more thoughts than I can usually keep straight at once.

I had paragraphs in that, I swear, but the indents don’t carry over.

lurkerinthedark-

Two points in your posting stick out:
1)“This is something which has happened OUTSIDE the traditions of the university.” Not exactly. What happened happened within the traditions of the University simply because the football program was one of the most cherished traditions at Penn St. What happened was that those in charge failed to property oversee and administer that tradition. The problem of failing to properly administer is not a failing of the football program or of Joe Pa. The failure to administer was the failure of the Board of Regents which, to date, has not been reconstituted so the endemic problems within Penn St. University have not been addressed. It was the Board of Regents that failed to keep the scandal from becoming a scandal.

2) Not only has the Board of Regents failed to fire those responsible for allowing the scandal to become a scandal, they have taken no substantive actions to show the accept responsibilities for their failings. Just imagine what the plaintiff’s lawyer will say to the jury in summation when asking for punitive damages. The school has not fired those ultimately responsible for oversight (The BOR), the school has allowed the program to remain under the supervision of one of the “inside Paterno guys” (The current interim coach), the school has none nothing to self assess a penalty. In short its pretty much business as usual with a few key insiders shoved aside and replaced with a few other key insiders. The only ones to suffer have been the kids and the football program (and the school) are both hoping this all blows over. So far, they just don’t seem to understand that what happened was the worst scandal in the history of college sports. If Penn St doesn’t change things at Penn St, the hundreds of millions in punitive damages the school will pay will unquestionably change Penn St.

Does Craig James have anything hiding in his (electrical) closet?

I was under the impression that the BOR had fired those who knew of the allegations and were essentially responsible for the cover-up. I have seen nothing that would implicate the BOR itself in the cover-up.
However, I now read a story from the Washington Post in which it explicitly says, “an investigation by The Associated Press suggests that blame also rests on Penn State as an institution and the entrenched traditions of now-fired head football coach Joe Paterno.”
“As an institution.”
So, your points are valid.

Craig James was allegedly known as the “Hooker Assassin” at SMU. There were many rich and influential people that were SMU donors at the time CRAIG JAMES KILLED 5 HOOKERS AT SMU. Along with the payments to the players came expectations that certain indiscretions committed by these rich guys be "taken care of" by certain players on the team - allegedly. Apparently, Craig James, being the consummate teammate that he was, enthusiastically volunteered (allegedly) to take over the duty from Eric Dickerson, who was a consummate professional – or at least he had the decency to refuse to play for A&M. As a result, Eric had the opportunity to develop more on the field and become one of the best RB’s in history. Meanwhile, CRAIG JAMES KILLED FIVE HOOKERS, two for himself, two for Eric, and one just because she asked if he played for the Broncos (allegedly). The moral decay that Craig incurred resulting from killing the 5 hookers combined with the sleaziness that Craig James had to wallow in to get Leach fired is what really sucked out the last bit of soul he had – undoubtedly doing more to prepare him for the US Senate than anything else could have.

#rememberthefive

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9u-JdUHQFQ