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Scandals Have Always Plagued College Football, Including at Georgia - Flagpole
“Big-time college football is out of control, rotten from the foundation up” wrote sports journalist and former college football player Rick Telander in his 1989 book The Hundred Yard Lie. Telander’s book should be required reading for coaches and fans of the University of Georgia’s gridiron...
flagpole.com
From the article:
Today there is nothing funny when football becomes the tail that wags the Bulldog. Georgia may well win a third national championship in the next season, and if it does, Athens authorities could have to contend with a rah-rah riot downtown, proving what writer Elbert Hubbard meant when he said, “College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.”