Tom Osborne invokes the one-size-fits-all defense to the NCAA.
… Osborne told The Associated Press on Thursday that “the arrangement was done before we even knew about Taylor Martinez or that we knew he was a football player.”
No word on whether Osborne was smirking when he spoke with the reporter.
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Wait wait wait. So they Nebraska signed a contract with Corn Fed one year before they offered the guy’s son a scholarship and Osborne says they didn’t know? Wow.
Even if that were true, why is it appropriate to keep the relationship after you offer his son a scholarship?
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Yeah, DUH. They sure as hell knew he was a football player shortly after signing that contract…Huh.
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NCAA officially incorporates the Sgt Schultz defense into it’s rules “I (WE) KNOW NOTHINGGGGGGG!”
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This is hilarious. The NCAA has gotten themselves in the position our law enforcement authorities would be if Courts started accepting as a matter of law the “I found it or I don’t know how that got there” defense in petty drug cases.
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The thing that worries me is, What is anyone going to do about the NCAA? Selective enforcement has been issue for them for a while now (anyone remember Duke forfeiting games after Core Maggette was found ineligible for signing with an agent? Riiiiiiight.)…Who’s going to get these arse-wipes to change their ways? I mean, public scrutiny/pressure has always worked so well with them.
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Whose going to get them to change their ways. One hell of a law suit.
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Just woke up…
What am I doing in Memphis?
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On this one I am actually kinda “meh?” ::shoulder shrug::
If Nebraska was his first deal, or if he didnt have deals with other schools, then that makes me start to think a little more about it since that would be about the only way to establish quid pro quo which I assume to be the NCAA standard, oh wait, do they actually have standards?
Though I do feel like a clothing line called “corn fed” should be doing a little better than just 5K in profit to the “Cornhusker” nation…
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