NCAA Growls

 A streak of lightening  went across the sky about 6.27pm tonight while both teams were warming up.  A mandatory 30 minute wait  while the lightening cleared out brought on a steady drizzle of rain which has caused the second postponement of the Fike-Rocky Mount baseball game.  They will try again Wednesday at 5.00pm at Gryphon Stadium.



Yesterday the NCAA Infractions committee came down hard on Ohio State Football coach Jim Tressel.  Those of you that have been away for six months or so, Ohio State announced just before the bowl game this year that five players have sold free gear that they receive as being a football player.  Once pressed on the issue coach Tressel informed the world he had known about the infractions well before the football season started but he didn't know who to tell.

Now do you think that I think that the man in charge of maybe the biggest football program in the country didn't know what to do when he was told he had players breaking NCAA rules.  If that is the case then Ohio State needed to fire him immediately because they had a blind man driving the bus.

The NCAA yesterday plainly says that Tressel lied to them during their investigation.  Look no further than Bruce Pearl as to what the NCAA expects to happen.  Fire the coach or we will nail you to the wall on infractions.  Even firing Tressel The Ohio State will probably have to forfeit last years wins and bowl game.

Tressel has lived off the mold  of he was clean as a whistle.  Yet, when confronted with possible cheating he swept it under the rug hoping it would pass but it did not.  My Grand Ma use to say this all the time : If you tell the truth the first time you never have to change your story".

How can anyone who supports Ohio State defend this action? How can Tressel walk into my house and tell me that he will teach my son the correct way to live life?  He is labeled a cheater from here to eternity.  Yes everyone makes mistakes and we must pay for them.  Jim Tressel needs to pay for his by removing himself as head coach and Ohio State and try to get a division 2 or 3 job.

Now the latest on Carolina:  I don't know whether you saw ESPN's Between the lines segment Sunday or not but they interviewed former Carolina player Marvin Austin.  The interview started out  how you have made it not having football for a year.  Somewhere in the middle of the interview Austin started a forest fire that can't do anything but bring sanctions on UNC.  The bottom line he confessed to being paid to play for UNC.

It seems that college sports is in shambles, every which way you turn somebody is cheating and getting kick backs.  What alternative do we have?  Do away with scholarships all together.  If we went totally no funding  for ahtletes you play for the enjoyment there would still be the $100 handshake. 

We live in a world today it's me first, at least the NCAA is trying to control it to some degree maybe not very well but there is some control and like the highway patrol they catch some body every now and then.  Which makes some of us slow down for a while.