Wow, what a mess. I'm trying to read this stuff with an objective and open mind - which is a bit difficult since I am an OSU grad. Even though the writer - Thayer Evans - is a longtime OSU hater and OU homer, there is no way it is all B.S., but there are some things that don't add up. First of all, even though I follow the program I have never even heard of most of these guys who say they got money, and almost all of them were kicked off the team after a year or two. Also the number of ex OSU players who have taken to Twitter, Facebook, etc defending OSU and calling the article nonsense is getting bigger by the hour. SI couldn't find one top player during that time who would say they took money? Not one? I'm sure they were interviewed, why is no one quoted denying it? Does some under-the-table booster money flow at most big schools? Absolutely, it would be naïve to think otherwise. But boosters and coaches handing out cash in the locker room and "making it rain" on team planes in full view of reporters and countless others? Hmmm.... In the last 24 hours 4 players in the article who were quoted as saying they were paid for "sham jobs" have said the reporter totally misrepresented what they said. Once again, I am not naïve enough to think OSU has been completely clean but this smells like a hatchet job. And the accusation that players had tutors doing their school work for them, and counselors directed them to easy classes? That's just shocking !
I can't imagine that being done for any college athlete
It will be interesting to see how this plays out...
I can't imagine that being done for any college athleteIt will be interesting to see how this plays out...
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