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<blockquote data-quote="Bruce Wayne" data-source="post: 110843" data-attributes="member: 231"><p>I largely agree with you but honestly, there have been plenty of other equally "bad" bad boy college football players over the years very much tolerated by their head coaches and so on. You can go all the way back to George Gipp of Notre Dame in the 1910s to find this as a pretty constant seedy side of collegiate football. Gipp was a pool shark and gambler who didn't even attend classes at Notre Dame but spent his days in the billiard halls hustling fools. Hollywood immortalized that ringer. </p><p></p><p>College football is not as structurally monolithic as a professional league like the NFL and so there will always be even multiple "black eye" kinds of misbehaving or embarrassing players out there who never get kicked off their teams. Stephen Garcia was suspended 5 times!! So I don't have any problem with each case being treated individually and also being ultimately only the concern of the head coach, athletic director, and school president. That is, it is far more up to the appropriate authorities at a university to teach, coach, and discipline their student-athletes in fulfillment of their roles as <em>in loco parentum.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p>Now, that being said, bring all the heat, criticism, and scrutiny you want to the university authorities and Jimbo!! Same with UNC and any other place that wants to operate as a factory exploiting these kids for their athletic gifts.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bruce Wayne, post: 110843, member: 231"] I largely agree with you but honestly, there have been plenty of other equally "bad" bad boy college football players over the years very much tolerated by their head coaches and so on. You can go all the way back to George Gipp of Notre Dame in the 1910s to find this as a pretty constant seedy side of collegiate football. Gipp was a pool shark and gambler who didn't even attend classes at Notre Dame but spent his days in the billiard halls hustling fools. Hollywood immortalized that ringer. College football is not as structurally monolithic as a professional league like the NFL and so there will always be even multiple "black eye" kinds of misbehaving or embarrassing players out there who never get kicked off their teams. Stephen Garcia was suspended 5 times!! So I don't have any problem with each case being treated individually and also being ultimately only the concern of the head coach, athletic director, and school president. That is, it is far more up to the appropriate authorities at a university to teach, coach, and discipline their student-athletes in fulfillment of their roles as [I]in loco parentum. [/I] Now, that being said, bring all the heat, criticism, and scrutiny you want to the university authorities and Jimbo!! Same with UNC and any other place that wants to operate as a factory exploiting these kids for their athletic gifts. [/QUOTE]
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