Clay Travis scathing critique of Sports Illustrated article

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And this justifies a cover story in Sports Illustrated?

Especially when Mathieu's eligibility wouldn't even be called into question over these club promotions absent him receiving substantial amounts of money in addition to his image being used. There is no allegation in the story of any substantial money or benefit changing hands. And are we really surprised that football players, shocker, get in for free at local bars or clubs in their college towns? This happens everywhere and when it's uncovered generally requires that the "offending" student-athlete pay back the cover charges to a charity.

Next thing you know Sports Illustrated is going to uncover that hot sorority girls on these same campuses also get to skip the line and receive preferential treatment once inside.

Is next week's SI headline going to show a group of hot LSU sorority girls emblazoned with this headline:

They. Get. In. Without. Waiting.

So the only "story" here is Mathieu's image being used by a local club.

Are you noting the hyprocisy yet?

Sports Illustrated, the largest sports magazine in the country, is raking a college kid over the coals for allowing his image to be used by a club while at the same time using his image on the front of their magazine to sell more issues.

Think about this for a minute.

SI's editors determined that the Honey Badger by himself, a guy who isn't even playing this year, made the most sense to put on the cover of their magazine in the middle of a football season in which LSU just beat the number three team in the nation on its campus and the only reason a player who didn't even play in that game deserved to be put on the cover of the magazine was because his image was being used to get people into a club.

The irony and hyprocisy is truly mind-boggling.

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