EDSBS LIVE: SCANDAAAAL! EDITION
Oh, festiva! Celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima with EDSBS Live tonight as we discuss SCANDAL in college football and at large with our guest, you.
The Four Scandalous Questions for the evening:
Who knew Hester was a Tide fan?
1. What was the worst scandal your school ever had? SMU fans, please feel free to call in.
2. What’s the worst scandal in college football RIGHT NOW? Feel free to slander whomever you like, so long as you are entertaining about it while on the air.
3. What’s the worst scandal you personally have been involved with? We’ll reveal ours on air, so scandalous is it.
4. What’s your favorite scandal? Nick Leeson, Rogue Trader. When you take down a whole bank with a single bet, you’re living to win, man. Leeson now writes books called “Coping With Stress” and plays poker professionally while running an Irish soccer club. Aside from time spent in Singaporean prison and colon cancer…where’s the downside, exactly?
We’ll see you tonight. Listen in with the sidebar or by going here at NowLive.com.
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Hester’s a fictional composite of a ‘Bama supporter and a Buckeye fan — she’s wearing an “A,” but it’s scarlet. And Wayne wants you to know it ain’t his baby, man.
Comment by DevilGrad — May 13, 2025 @ 3:30 pm
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Not really me, and not football. But, one month ago USC’s athletic department approached a number of basketball season ticket holders and told us that we had to pony up $3,500 per seat to guarantee they wouldn’t bump us from our seats. The open house in which we were to donate our money and select our seats took place last week… just a few days before the OJ Mayo story broke.
My theory is that the athletic dept knows that it’s in deep shit and wanted to cash in before 1) the basketball team loses scholarships and 2) the fans realize the team’s going to suck this year. Knowing this, they tried to hurry their season ticket holders into dropping $3,500 per seat in order to keep their seats. Mind you that I already donate $3,000 annually for the right to buy those seats.
Anyhow, something smells a rotten in the state of Troy. Throw this story on top of Reggiegate and you’ve got an athletic department that lacks control of it’s playas.
Comment by angry trojan — May 13, 2025 @ 3:35 pm
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1. The Bobby Williams years were a riot. Players picking up felonies left and right, a QB on coke, a WR on dope, and other offenses I’m sure existed. Just use your imagination.
2. Apparently USC has a payroll for its players. Even if you look into it NCAA, it’s alright, because Pete Carroll wants you to know that you’re just doing your job, and still loves each and every one of you. No matter what.
3. My high school XC girls’ coach was accused of giving his athletes performance enhancers, such as Vitamin C and Sudafed (which, if you know anything about Sudafed, is actually detrimental to a XC runner). This eventually led to two of my track coaches quitting, a front page article in the newspaper of the 2nd biggest city in Michigan, and said XC coach eventually resigned.
4. Teapot Dome, forever and ever. William McKinley, we miss you.
Comment by Ground0EastLansing — May 13, 2025 @ 3:38 pm
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1. What was the worst scandal your school ever had?
Lack of Institutional control for the Aggies under Jackie S. and RC’s watch….mother***** 10-0-1 season all for naught.
2. What’s the worst scandal in college football RIGHT NOW?
Jim Delaney
3. What’s the worst scandal you personally have been involved with?
I post on an Aggie board that broke the OU/Bomar/Big Red Imports scandal months before the news got ahold of it. I read the original post and thought “that guys a moron.”
Well who’s the moron now?
4. What’s your favorite scandal?
The concept that Erin A. and Herbie are hitting it. Small lover’s spat after the 2006 MNC
Comment by ThreenOut — May 13, 2025 @ 3:42 pm
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While the actual name is unspeakable, we’ll just call him Ogan Lay Oung Yay.
Comment by Mike Pigott — May 13, 2025 @ 3:43 pm
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Going to watch some college baseball tonight at Turner Field so I cannot make it tonight.
1) Jan Kemp
2) How Boise is allowed to play on blue turf.
3) Nothing major outside of a harmless stolen test, er study aid that was found in a lecture hall after an exam.
4) Marion Barry, Mayor of major city gets caught red handed buying crack.
Comment by Mitch Cumstein — May 13, 2025 @ 3:43 pm
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re: Nick Leeson… AND he had Ewan McGregor portray him in a movie. Colon cancer can’t touch that.
Comment by Flatlander — May 13, 2025 @ 3:46 pm
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1. Charlie Pell - gave us Hell. Almost SMU’d the Gators
2. Lack of institutional control in Tally. Tutors, grade fixing, cheating, a fired athletic director. It’s got it all!
3. Let’s just say it involved New Orleans and the Central City Lockup
4. Non-sports - Abscam, sports - Goldclub
Comment by Kerwin4two — May 13, 2025 @ 3:49 pm
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1) The fall of Switzer… The whole Thompson-as-coke dealer thing was just one facet of the whole mess.
2) U$C
3) does being present at the 2005 Orange Bowl count as a scandal? If not, I got nothin’
4) I’m still holding out for the day it is revealed that Vince Young was gene-spliced at birth with gazzelle DNA. I guy can dream can’t he?
Comment by CincySooner — May 13, 2025 @ 3:55 pm
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1. Pell. Fucker.
2. Does DickRod count?
3. I attended the Olympics once.
4. Free $hoes. Or Adrian McPherson.
Comment by Brian O'Blivion — May 13, 2025 @ 4:11 pm
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Oh, I don’t know what should we talk about?
You’ll understand of course if I plead the 5th….
Comment by Paragon SC — May 13, 2025 @ 4:15 pm
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1. What was the worst scandal your school ever had?
Steroid story broken by SI in the 80’s
Or that JoeMo was knocking the bottom out of a cheerleader and was subsequently given a heart attack shot in the showers to keep it under wraps
2. What’s the worst scandal in college football RIGHT NOW?
Anonymous blog posting (HA!)
3. What’s the worst scandal you personally have been involved with?
I got yelled at by a stripper at Scandals once.
4. What’s your favorite scandal?
Tommy Bowden still having a job despite never sniffing the ACC championship with the huge assload of talent they have had during his tenure.
Comment by Out of Conference — May 13, 2025 @ 4:18 pm
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1. Two Words: Lawrence. Phillips.
2-4. I’ll get back to you.
Comment by Carlinthemarlin — May 13, 2025 @ 4:25 pm
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1. What was the worst scandal your school ever had?
Traddies, the on campus bar, is closed for 2 years while they remodel the student center. Just out right scandalous!!!!!
2. What’s the worst scandal in college football RIGHT NOW?
The face that it’s May and not September.
3. What’s the worst scandal you personally have been involved with?
Me, a song girl, some blow, and living the dream back in 2006.
4. What’s your favorite scandal?
Ronaldo and the transvestites, try to spin that one!
Comment by NordeezyUSC — May 13, 2025 @ 4:26 pm
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1) Barnett years: Point-shaving.
1a) Walker years: Asthmatic kid dies on the practice field after loading up on dietary supplements.
2) APR
2a) Schools that don’t even pretend the players are taking classes during the season.
3) I pray the statute of limitations has expired after 20-something years, as I admit to being in the social circle of some unindicted co-conspirators in a multi-state cocaine ring.
4) Kwame Kilpatrick. He’s walking proof that sometimes the voice of the people is the voice of an ass.
Comment by PJ from NU in SF — May 13, 2025 @ 4:33 pm
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Ground Zero, Teapot Dome was in Harding’s administration. (He was from Ohio. ‘Nuff said.)
Comment by PJ from NU in SF — May 13, 2025 @ 4:37 pm
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1. Alarm clock radios and pillows, anyone? Okay, that was tame, compared to the Brewer years…no more trips to Platinum Plus or Tiffany’s Cabaret for future Rebs now.
2. The joke that is NCLB, sorry, I mean the APR.
3. Um…I plead the fifth.
4. Of all time? Gotta go with Bill, Monica, and the little blue dress. Good times, good times…
Comment by the croominator — May 13, 2025 @ 4:42 pm
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1 Having a defensive coordinator level a fan during the opposing team’s post-game rush-the-field celebration — on national television. Oh, and did I mention that the celebrating idiot was a plaintiff’s attorney?
2. Uneven, inscrutable enforcement of APR sanctions.
3. Whitewater.
4. The Max Mosley affair in the UK. The jokes there just write themselves.
Comment by DevilGrad — May 13, 2025 @ 4:43 pm
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What time is thing happening?
Also I propose Question #5: What is your favorite song by Scandal?
Comment by babaoje — May 13, 2025 @ 4:55 pm
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1.) (sigh) Fab Five. (*grumble*stevefischer*grumble*).
2.) Got to be USC. Or how in the hell does Wwweis still have a job.
3.) I used to drink underage in college. Heavily.
4.) Iran-Contra. Generation-defining Iran-Contra.
Comment by Anon — May 13, 2025 @ 4:57 pm
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R E G G I E B U S H
been waiting for the hammer to fall on USC for a few years now.
especially cause i’m a sooner fan i’m wondering where the NCAA is for them cause they were on us quicker than a hunter on deer tracks……
Comment by Brad/CrimsonBlood — May 13, 2025 @ 5:10 pm
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1) Charlie Pell, 107 NCAA Violations in 5 years. You can take the Bama grad out of Bama … but he’s still a Bama grad. RIP you glorious, cheatin’ bastard.
2) Circumcisiongate.
3) Nothing major….yet.
4) Hawaiian pizza + penis + Ohio Atty General = you can’t make this stuff up:
http://wonkette.com/377852/ohio-attorney-general-luring-female-staff-with-hawaiian-pizza
Comment by PW — May 13, 2025 @ 5:12 pm
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#15 - You’re right Sir, +100 to you.
However, my feelings for McKinley still stand.
Comment by Ground0EastLansing — May 13, 2025 @ 5:15 pm
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1. 2001-2003 under Sherrill. Total crap teams staring down probation. Second favorite: the spat between Eric Moulds and Derrick Taite, allegedly over a coach’s daughter.
2. The mountains of cash that athletic departments rake in
3. Bachelor party misunderstanding (not Very Bad Things level, but…I’m shutting up now).
4. Does D.B. Cooper count? If not, I’ll say Fatty Arbuckle.
Comment by jakldawg — May 13, 2025 @ 5:19 pm
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1. Been keeping up w/ LSU lately?
2. SAT prep: APR:NCAA Oil-for-food:UN
3. I won’t give you my biggest scandal. I will give you my 37th biggest scandal: impersonating the fire-alarm in 2nd grade. Made them punk classmates of mine jump their damned drawers.
4. Professional Wrestling
Comment by MCab — May 13, 2025 @ 5:20 pm
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people, there’s scandals and there are scandals and then there is vladimir montesinos. this due ran peru during the 90s when it mattered. he was raking in money from coke dealers AND the cia. and then, just to be a bigger bastard, he filmed every sad son of a bitch he bribed to blackmail them later.
by the time it all fell apart he and his buddy alberto fujimori broke into the the top ten most corrupt government’s list with a fucking bullet.
being from louisiana i thought i’d never see a more corrupt government than what huey p. long and edwin edwards cobbled together in the bayou state but, trust me, they were AMATEURS.
Comment by kleph — May 13, 2025 @ 5:25 pm
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1. What was the worst scandal your school ever had?
Text-gate. Jesus, what a clusterfrick of program embarrassment; its been worse than the 3 different scholarship penalty events in the past 30 years.
2. What’s the worst scandal in college football RIGHT NOW?
Ohio State as a serious national power- I mean really, when your signature wins are Michigan yearly, and a MNC win over Miami the better part of a decade ago, why are you held up to take a beating against better teams repeatedly?
If OSU plays for a title again this year, Delaney has nudes of everyone involved in the BCS formula.
3. What’s the worst scandal you personally have been involved with?
False-alarm impregnation of a pair of girls, who happened to be each other’s sisters- and their daddy owned a gun shop. Not fun times.
4. What’s your favorite scandal?
The ‘Murder’ of Pope John Paul I. Lots of good tin-foil hatters out there on that one- and it takes a lot to make the Truthers look crazy, but they do a good job of it.
Comment by EireHog — May 13, 2025 @ 5:55 pm
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1) My own alma mater of Ohio University is both dull and terrible so we don’t really get scandals, per se. Though Gary Trent was a COLOSSAL asshole.
2) The continued and unquestioned support for Saudi Arabia, home to 15 of the Sept. 11 hijackers.
3) I got fired from my job as a newspaper reporter for blogging. On the newspaper’s blog. Don’t call the executive editor a flamenco dancer, kids.
4) Everything involving Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons is comedy gold. Pretty soon he’s going to reach that Dick Cheney/Mike Tyson/Brittney Spears level where you’ll believe any story about him, no matter how outlandish.
Comment by Harris — May 13, 2025 @ 6:10 pm
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1. What was the worst scandal your school ever had?
Logan Young and his “mysterious death”, plus all the charges he had, never convicted….
2. What’s the worst scandal in college football RIGHT NOW? This new fangled thing called APR….I thought 0.9% for 60 months was a good thing……
3. What’s the worst scandal you personally have been involved with? Getting throw out of a strip joint with Neil Rackers and his holder Pope when they played for the Bengals, ol’ Rackers thought the chick was fat so he place about 50 cents in change on the floor, which got us kicked out since change on the dance floor is a occupational hazard that the fat ho could slip on it and fall off stage…
4. What’s your favorite scandal? High gas prices….and foreclosures……The price of oil and how we get to hear how the oil companies are raking in “record profits” and they play it off like “Dude, my bad, we just made $30 billion dollars last quarter, so sorry bout that last tank of gas, we’ll get it fixed….”
Then people get mortgages they cant afford on interest only loans, then the interest goes up, property values go down……you know the rest
Comment by Mr. Pelican Pants — May 13, 2025 @ 6:32 pm
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Nobody knows scandal like the Sun Devils, I may have to call in tonight…
1) Suspended player Loren Wade kills former player Brandon Falkner.
2) ASU cheerleading program just got the ax for appearing on the interwebs in their underwear (they were kinda fat by A-State standards, so no biggie)
3) True freshman girl comes to our fraternity party, leaves drunk, crosses street against a red light, killed by a speeding drunk driver. Driver is a lawyer and ditches his car and turns himself in three days later to avoid greater charges. You would have probably heard more about it hadn’t it happened in early September, 2001.
4) ASU cheerleader Courtney Cox making her professional porno debut in her ASU uniform.
God there’s so many more…
Comment by Big Jon — May 13, 2025 @ 7:54 pm
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1. Lawrence Phillips — the gift that keeps on giving.
2. USC’s best players in two sports are were getting cash and gifts from agents. Lack of institutional control in multiple sports makes one eligible for the SMU treatment from the NCAA.
3. I lead a righteous life, brother. And nothing’s all that scandalous hereabouts unless you scale the outside of your girlfriend’s apartment building to beat the hell out of her. I mean, we’ve got standards.
4. The whole TV preacher meltdowns of the 80’s were superfun, especially living in the town where CBN was headquartered.
Comment by Albino Tornado — May 13, 2025 @ 8:14 pm
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1. What was the worst scandal your school ever had?
Lester Earl leaves LSU for Kansas. He & Roy Williams decide to kick the Tigers in the balls earning us probation & a shitload of scholarships gone. http://tinyurl.com/6bv7uj
2. What’s the worst scandal in college football RIGHT NOW?
The fact that the Pac-10 & Big 11 are standing in the way of a playoff because of their anal desire to play in the Rose Bowl.
3. What’s the worst scandal you personally have been involved with?
So many to choose from. I’ll go with the one that involved me revealing LSU new shitty Toonces logo to the world on a message board a week before it was officially released, thus earning me personal phone calls from the marketing director and senior associate athletic director wanting to know how I got it. http://tinyurl.com/3qq9sc
4. What’s your favorite scandal?
Three words…”IT’S ROLLIN’ BABY!” Gotta love Mike Price.
Comment by LSUMeathead — May 13, 2025 @ 8:15 pm
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1. Ed Reed losing the Thorpe Award to Roy Williams. I didn’t know who Thorpe was so I looked him up and I was appalled. The folks of Oklahoma named an award after a Drunk, Olympic Cheater, National Disgrace, Wife Beater, who was stripped of his medals, and died friendless, peniless, and alone in a trailer and was burried in an unmarked grave without his medals.
2. Having a semi-retired lettuce farmer steal the 2002 National Title in what is known as the Worst call in the History of Sports. The called ended a 34 game winning streak, an undefeated coaching record, and a title defense.
3. Swindle, my publicist would shit if she knew I was even posting on this forum.
4. The LAPD trying to frame OJ Simson.
Comment by Oranse Taylor — May 13, 2025 @ 9:54 pm
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1. Jackie Sherrill took the football team to south farm to watch a rancher castrate a bull prior to the 92 Texas game. Rush Limbaugh even talked about that one. Apparently Sherrill asked the players what the difference between a steer and bull was — they didn’t so he decided it would be educational. State won that game, btw.
2. The NCAA rules committee.
3. I asked a kid why his parents were getting divorced — he didn’t they were getting divorced. I was eight.
4. Clinton-Lewinsky. That was a year’s worth of fun.
Comment by hailstate — May 13, 2025 @ 10:56 pm
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1. The two-year long, sex n booze filled media orgy that was the Colorado football recruiting scandal.
2. That Rick Neuheisel not only still coaches, but coaches at a major school.
3. I worked for the student newspaper when the CU scandal went down. Got some weird stories about things Barnett said off the record.
4. Always been a fan of that one season when Chris Rix got about 140 tickets for parking in handicapped spots.
Comment by justin — May 13, 2025 @ 11:10 pm
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1. What was the worst scandal your school ever had?
My school? Hmm… Mack accumulating so much talent and have so many resources and winning only 1 MNC. Simply scandalous.
2. What’s the worst scandal in college football RIGHT NOW?
Lack of a playoff in I-A football
3. What’s the worst scandal you personally have been involved with?
Does continuing to exhibit poor judgement count?
4. What’s your favorite scandal?
UN Food for Oil
Comment by bevo — May 13, 2025 @ 11:39 pm
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1. What was the worst scandal your school ever had?
Gotta go with Jan Kemp….although while I was there, the Tony Cole/Jim Harrick cluster and Quincy’s “broken thumb”/coke and gambling habit.
2. What’s the worst scandal in college football RIGHT NOW?
Probably USC’s blatant violations.
3. What’s the worst scandal you personally have been involved with?
A pay for play scheme in the 80s with Luther Campbell….oh wait, that wasn’t me….
4. What’s your favorite scandal?
Iran-Contra…..what’s the worst that could happen?
Comment by UgaMatt — May 14, 2025 @ 7:33 am
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1. Operation Equinox (1991) or the plagarism scandal (2001) that made a physics professor a star! I wonder what 2011 will bring.
2. The BCS “championship” game.
3. I gave a pair of socks to a recruit on a visit back in the 80s. I hope the Statute of Limitations on that has expired, lawya.
4. Donna Rice and Gary Hart. The man paved the way for Bill Clinton to become president!
Comment by Stormy — May 14, 2025 @ 7:43 am
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#33 lets be honest… Roy Williams CARRIED that 2001 Oklahoma team. Ed Reed had the benefit of being on an all-timer of a team.
and in 2002, I saw they replay just like the rest of the nation… Sharpe made contact before the ball arrived. The call was late, but not wrong.
Per Wikipedia (I know, I know…wiki isn’t a great source): “The Call” has since been defended by some sportswriters as a good one[2][3], was validated by the National Association of Sports Officials[4], and was selected by Referee Magazine as one of the “Best 18 Calls of All Time.”
Comment by CincySooner — May 14, 2025 @ 7:48 am
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1) Ronnie Harmon - 1986 Rose Bowl
2) Fox Broadcasting
3) Created and was president of a fake organization to get better on campus housing.
4) The entire financial industry.
Comment by Nile — May 14, 2025 @ 8:46 am
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1. i’d like to say john blake, but let’s be honest, nothing beats this: http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q250/FrontLobo/si%20jinx%20cover/oklahoma1989.jpg
2. bob stoops’ inability to win a bowl game
3. my senior year of high school, i was caught in between a big fight between the president of the school board and the superindentent (i was like a redneck archduke ferdinand, who didn’t get shot) - the super’s friends even hired a PI to follow me…so i did the only logical thing, which was convince the president of the school board to have a keg party at his house after senior prom - guess who ended up on the 10:00 news in Tulsa come monday?
4. the admission of texass into the union - after failing a few times to get that racist, horrible, wretched state admitted, tyler eventually snuck them in in december of 1945, after he had already lost his re-election bid, in some part due to his support of texass statehood - this horrible, horrible state later became the last segregated football team to win a title, because they’re racists and they probably beat up puppies as well - my god, how i hate texass
Comment by okiedomer — May 14, 2025 @ 9:01 am
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1. The whole Bob Tyler crap back in the late 70s. Wiretaps. Probation. We should have known better to hire an Ole Pi$$ grad as HC and AD.
2. A tie - USCw & the BCS.
3. What I did as an athletic department tutor in Starksville. Also at Alabama in grad skool.
4. The $3.3 trillion (yes, trillon) that the US DOD & HUD can’t account for over since 1990.
Comment by yoyofutbawl — May 14, 2025 @ 9:11 am
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33 - wow, hate Thorpe much? He was also named the top athlete of the first half of the 20th century by the AP. His medals were restored by the IOC after his death. He was the best multi-sport athlete of his generation. And oh, he was also inducted in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
And that call couldn’t have happened to a more deserving fanbase. And I’m no fan of tOSU. And I had no idea there was such thing as “Referee Magazine”.
Comment by Brian O'Blivion — May 14, 2025 @ 10:02 am
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1) L. Philips (what a waste)
2) NCAA turning its collective head when it comes to U$C cheating.
3) I’m innocent.
4) The Clinton years.
Comment by Me — May 14, 2025 @ 10:04 am
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1. What was the worst scandal your school ever had?
Dang, so many to choose from according to my Bama friends. Personally, in my opinion when we graduated a player that could not read was horribly embarrasing.
2. What’s the worst scandal in college football RIGHT NOW?
The fact that USC and all their cheating is being overlooked. Have to agree with the Bama’s here; “Selective prosecution:
3. What’s the worst scandal you personally have been involved with?
Clayton Lonetree
4. What’s your favorite scandal?
So many unanswered questions about Logan Young’s death.
Comment by kt — May 14, 2025 @ 10:23 am
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1. Kim Dunbar. Yes, we Domers actually have one (minor) scandal. I think we lost one scholarship for one year.
2. Look, can we just get the freakin’ truth about Reggie Bush? I’m not going to whine about the Bush Push, but for christs sake, the Trojan Athletics Department is about as well run as Lebanon right now.
3. Nothing fun really.
4. The Kennedy Assassination. Jack Ruby didn’t shoot Oswald because he was a patriot…
Comment by wooderson — May 14, 2025 @ 10:41 am
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1. Could it be anything other than Jan Kemp? Maybe Harrick? Oh, wait, I’ll go with Quincy Carter! 6 TOs vs South Carolina.
2. Right now? Maybe the way the #4 team moves down two spots after #s 2 and 3 lose. FUCK YOU KIRK.
3. I got grades for PE classes I didn’t go to because I was a student-athlete. Couldn’t tell you one damn thing about volleyball. The next year the old alma mater goes on probation for violations in, no kidding, women’s basketball.
4. Fuck nut W is the GD POTUS. Twice. Un-fucking-believable. What was that someone said about the mayor of Detroit? Yeah, what he said.
Comment by UgasTexan — May 14, 2025 @ 11:54 am
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RE: #33
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLqrAcQuqVo
Also, not sure about your defnition of “now” but you must have been serving a nickle in chino if your biggest scandal happening “now” is a pass interference call from 6 years ago. If you are a Miami fan, I am sorry that the 2002 game sent “the U” into a impressive downward spiral; however, the call, while actually holding (same enforcement in the situation) wasn’t exactly a scandal.
Comment by COB — May 14, 2025 @ 12:24 pm
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1. What was the worst scandal your school ever had? Ed Martin.
2. What’s the worst scandal in college football RIGHT NOW? The lack of a real playoff for the national championship.
3. What’s the worst scandal you personally have been involved with? I’ve done some stupid things, but none of them involved any official malfeasance. I’ve copied homework assignments.
4. What’s your favorite scandal? Teapot Dome.
Comment by snowcrash — May 14, 2025 @ 12:48 pm
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Holy crap I just found this again.
This is the scandal I looked at at the time and thought the poster was a moron.
Awesome.
http://www.texags.com/main/forum.reply.asp?topic_id=567066&page=1&forum_id=5
Comment by ThreenOut — May 14, 2025 @ 12:59 pm
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1. Not the biggest, but most hilarious. Our men’s basketball team was involved in a calling-card scandal in 1991. Several players ran up thousands of dollars in long-distance charges on an asst. coach’s calling card (remember those?). The NCAA investigation was fairly open-and-shut, since the players involved used the illegal card from their OWN phones in their apartments and dorm rooms. Academic all-Americans, they were not.
2. The fact that Ron Franklin isn’t calling the national title game.
3. Mostly standard campus drunken shennanigans.
4. Marshall’s Jobs-for-Mops scandal a few years back, when the ensuing NCAA investigation revealed boosters ghost-payrolling players $25/hour for “janitor” jobs and that Marshall had taken *65* Prop 48s over the previous four years.
Comment by Papa Lou BSU — May 14, 2025 @ 2:02 pm
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Thank god some Ohio State fan made a Youtube video to clear up the controversy. Being cheated out of a national championship might have been real uncomfortable otherwise.
Im over it; Coker is a piece of shit and we didnt deserve to win, but having OSU fans offer a home made youtube video as some sort of validation chaps my ass.
As for Ed Reed/Roy Williams, that I won’t ever get over. Who cares that Miami had a better team, the award is supposed to go to the best defensive back in the country. Roy Williams is a glorified cover linebacker who has since been exposed, and everyone outside of Oklahoma is aware of this.
The BIGGER injustice, however, was that Sean Taylor lost the award to Derrick Strait two years later. Sean had 10 interceptions, 3 touchdowns, 77 tackles, shut down Larry Fitzgerald and haunts Chris Rix’s nightmares to this day. Derrick Strait had 80 tackles, 3 Interceptions. What a joke that award is.
Comment by NOLAcane — May 14, 2025 @ 4:17 pm
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Yeh I have to agree on “The Call” the ball got there before Sharpe did….had it been now, it would have been overturned, shouldnt have been a flag anyway, WTF was the ref looking at anyhow?
Comment by Mr Pelican Pants — May 15, 2025 @ 11:09 am