Yahoo Sports is reporting that USC cheats...that parts not really news.
What is news, is the fact that Tim Floyd literally handed money to an agency to get OJ Mayo to play for him for one season...Nice work, Coach Floyd! You've taken the art of cheating to a low level that would make Coach Cal and Worldwide Wes blush. I mean, who actually directly gives money anymore? Not many...But clearly, Coach Tim Floyd has panache...and he understands you shouldn't leave a job to someone else you can do for yourself! The thing that's astounding to me is that OJ Mayo made over $200,000...for one season of college basketball. While the market of other cheating programs/agents/AAU coaches/corrupt athletic departments must have dictated such a number, it seems completely crazy to me that someone or a group of someones would be willing to pay so much for so little. If this is what it takes to finish fourth in the Pac-10, I guess I just don't want that type of success at Purdue. But well played, Coach Floyd, you were willing to pay for big results...I hope it was worth-while for you.
At least Tim always has the NBA to fall back upon...ooooh, wait, sorry.
How happy is the University of Arizona to have Sean Miller right now?
8 comments:
Quality photoshop there.
Can't even tell, can you?
Caption contest:
"Now take your stickin' money and get out of here!"
Dowd, did you just take that photo directly from the USC Mens Basketball Program?
The entire athletic department at USC is already under NCAA observation. This is like trying to put the fire out with a bucket of gasoline...
I don't give a lot of weight to Yahoo! stories that I don't see corroborated elsewhere, but I'm not surprised at these allegations.
Ryan F--
ESPN/ABC and CBS have multi-million/billion dollar deals with the NCAA for college basketball rights... how interested do you think they are in seeing big-time programs accused of malfeasance?
Probably not very much.
This is why the crumbling of the newspaper industry and actual investigative journalism is a bigger problem than anyone realizes.
Journalism is also more about sensationalism than news now, anyways.
There's smoke here...there are other source corroborating-
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=4162444
Plus, there was a story about Mayo & USC months ago...just not this kind of detail.
All that said, Ryan, sensationalism definitely sells in this day.
Paul, yes, I got the photo from USC's site:
USCsportshandouts.com
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