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Especially the ones who had tests fixed for them
Posted on: August 2, 2016 at 09:48:13 CT
McMuffin MU
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Doug Smith is my favorite Mizzou player of all time but lets be real about how he came to be on the Mizzou campus.
As we know, academic fraud, payments to players and their families, sweeping criminal acts under the table, etc are the hallmarks of the current success of programs like ku, North Carolina etc. It trickles down to varying degrees to other D1 programs as well, but generally you can rest assured that behind every "great" program lies many a great crime.
Of course I want to win against those programs and others. But to say that their winning matters more than our character is to give a level of credence to the scum and slime that programs like ku and North Carolina have turned college basketball into that I am unwilling to give them. I simply put no stock in any of their accomplishments because I have a full understanding of the backhanded shady ways in which they were accomplished.
I realize that for Mizzou to win at that level it must also wade in the muck, and I know that players like Doug Smith and AP and others were very likely at times part of the same mess. So sure, I will get a kick out of Mizzou winning at that level if and when it happens. But the overall sport of college basketball means a lot less to me than it used to before I had access to as much information as I do now about just how shady and lame all its underpinnings are. If Mizzou wins the national title, I will use the opportunity to talk sh** to ku fans and other ***** fans out there nonstop. Because they deserve it. But that's about all I would get out of it at this point.
I don't really care much for the sport of college basketball in general anymore. I would much prefer they just establish NBDL type minor league professional teams across the country that various universities could lease their existing basketball arenas out to as an added source of revenue for the school but not have to enroll the athletes themselves as "students" at the college, cuz that part is all utter bullsh*t. I know that won't happen but at least that would be more honest. Then we could know the *real* operating budgets of Team Lawrence, Team Chappell Hill etc rather than speculate about how much under the table disparity there is in their recruiting, could have our own Team Columbia be free to increase its payments to its players under contract, procure housing for their families as needed, not try to adhere to some random campus safety policy when they get in trouble since they wouldn't be on campus anyway, etc. It will never happen of course, but if it did, that would be a sport I would actually feel good about following.
Edited by McMuffin at 09:52:09 on 08/02/16
As we know, academic fraud, payments to players and their families, sweeping criminal acts under the table, etc are the hallmarks of the current success of programs like ku, North Carolina etc. It trickles down to varying degrees to other D1 programs as well, but generally you can rest assured that behind every "great" program lies many a great crime.
Of course I want to win against those programs and others. But to say that their winning matters more than our character is to give a level of credence to the scum and slime that programs like ku and North Carolina have turned college basketball into that I am unwilling to give them. I simply put no stock in any of their accomplishments because I have a full understanding of the backhanded shady ways in which they were accomplished.
I realize that for Mizzou to win at that level it must also wade in the muck, and I know that players like Doug Smith and AP and others were very likely at times part of the same mess. So sure, I will get a kick out of Mizzou winning at that level if and when it happens. But the overall sport of college basketball means a lot less to me than it used to before I had access to as much information as I do now about just how shady and lame all its underpinnings are. If Mizzou wins the national title, I will use the opportunity to talk sh** to ku fans and other ***** fans out there nonstop. Because they deserve it. But that's about all I would get out of it at this point.
I don't really care much for the sport of college basketball in general anymore. I would much prefer they just establish NBDL type minor league professional teams across the country that various universities could lease their existing basketball arenas out to as an added source of revenue for the school but not have to enroll the athletes themselves as "students" at the college, cuz that part is all utter bullsh*t. I know that won't happen but at least that would be more honest. Then we could know the *real* operating budgets of Team Lawrence, Team Chappell Hill etc rather than speculate about how much under the table disparity there is in their recruiting, could have our own Team Columbia be free to increase its payments to its players under contract, procure housing for their families as needed, not try to adhere to some random campus safety policy when they get in trouble since they wouldn't be on campus anyway, etc. It will never happen of course, but if it did, that would be a sport I would actually feel good about following.
Edited by McMuffin at 09:52:09 on 08/02/16
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Especially the ones who had tests fixed for them - McMuffin MU - 8/2 09:48:13