AL.com...Your idiot letter to the editor of the day

by Paragon SC on Jun 14, 2009 5:27 AM PDT in News Comment 4 comments

Ed.Note...A reader informed me that this isn't a column but a letter to the editor. My mistake, so I changed the title and some of the content. Regardless, it is still misinformed and it paints a fan base (one that is pretty knowledgeable) in a bad light for not knowing enough about a subject before "sounding off". I am surprised that AL.com published this...to me its tantamount to endorsing the position taken in the letter. - P

This is the second piece like this I have seen come out of AI.com in the past week.(emphasis added)

However, to be put on three years' probation seems extreme to me, especially considering the University of Southern California and its "friends" allegedly paid extreme amounts of money to Reggie Bush and his family (and no telling how many others) and nothing has been done by the NCAA about this.

Really?

I can certainly understand some 'Bama fans wondering just what the NCAA is doing considering they just got nailed for infractions that occurred while they were still on probation from another set of infractions. We have no beef with the Alabama fan base or their football program. In fact most USC fans respect Alabama football and their history in the sport more than any other SEC team. USC and Alabama have strong ties in the sport.

NO WHERE has it been written or reported that USC gave money to Reggie Bush's parents. This was not a booster, something that Alabama knows a lot about, lining the pockets of players with $100-dollar handshakes. It has been well documented that this was a would-be agent that entered into an agreement with Bush's parents. When Reggie knew and what Reggie received and when he received it it still not known. It doesn't take a genius figure that the reason that NCAA hasn't acted is because they don't have enough to go on. That would include school involvement. The fact that the NCAA wants to see Reggie's deposition (whenever that happens) before handing down their ruling is evidence enough to show that NCAA's investigation on the Bush matter is dead in the water.

3 years? Right...

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INSTITUTIONAL control

What is it:INSTITUTIONAL control a large organization that is influential in the community, e.g. a college, hospital, or bank to exercise power or authority over something such as a business or nation
But in the sense that a school can’t control anyone or thing outside of its institution, why because the world is not bound buy it. How can USC control what the Bush family does on its own time with or without their child. This an outside source and the Ncaa can not expect the schools to control it it is not legal for one thing. I could see if the someone at USC introduced these people to the Bushes but they didn’t that all happened in San Diego probably way before Reggie even enrolled at SC.
So sorry BN and others wanting the world to come down on SC but it might but shouldn’t oh and BTW: Your tennis player was paid by a BOOSTER in which is Lack of Institutional control.

Paul D. Kelley

by so.cal.native1952 on Jun 14, 2009 11:44 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

It's Alabama, after all

Shouldn’t we giving kudos instead that someone from Alabama can actually write.

by Zoulou on Jun 15, 2009 3:37 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Ouch!

Conquest Chronicles

by Paragon SC on Jun 15, 2009 4:04 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

The bammer mentality

I grew up with these people and used to be one of them. I visited both the uat and the Auburn campuses my senior year in high school. It didn’t take me long to see the difference. uat was full of snobs and addicts. At Auburn, everyone was friendly and the campus was beautiful.

The bammer mentality is one of denial: They refuse to bury Bear Bryant, holding desperately to the hope that someone will arrive and be Bryant’s reincarnation. They cling to what they call their “national respect and tradition”. Yeah…right. Since the NCAA handed down a just punishment for the crapstain that is uat, I’ve seen in news articles and blogs what the real national picture of bammer has become. But they’ll never see it, claiming that all detractors are simply jealous.

The NCAA’s punishment doesn’t touch bammer’s future, except for the probationary period that will put them under a microscopic eye searching for misbehavior of any kind. I think even Nick Saban is having a hard time getting the bammer nation to let it go and look to the future. The past is all they have and that’s what the NCAA has wiped out. bammers hate this, believing they should be the only ones who can rewrite their past.

And now they’ll appeal. Someone yesterday hinted that the appeal will ask for the vacated wins to be reinstated – and that they’ll ask the NCAA to retroactively give them some more NCs. bammers like doing that sort of thing. Ask Logan Young, if you can. He learned that, for the bammer nation, the past is only as good as its witnesses.

by AubieJon on Jun 19, 2009 6:03 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs