re: LSU featured on college football live on ESPN

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You might gobble that NCAA report hook, line and sinker, but I don't.

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I see. So the facts ascertained by the NCAA investigators over years of investigation are all pure manufactured lies because one of the people involved is not a credible witness. But your version is the pure, unassailable, unvarnished truth because it is based 100% on the word of Reggie Bush . . . clearly an unbiased party with absolutely no reason whatsoever to fabricate, mislead, or lie about what went on in this situation. I guess O.J. really didn't do anything wrong, either, right? (Mayo, not the other one)

Somehow, I'm not surprised. The difference between us is that when my school does something bad, I'm pissed off at the people that did it, not the people who caught us. And I don't pretend like it didn't happen, or we didn't do it, or there's some big conspiracy out to get us. We paid Lester Earl. And it was a terrible thing to do. And it was stupid and wrong. And were punished for it. I grumbled that the punishment was a bit stiffer than it should have been, but I never tried to minimize what we did.

Bush was paid. He was paid in cash, among lots of other benefits. The coach knew about it, and let him keep playing. That is cheating on close to the highest order in the NCAA. If that had been the only violation, it would have warranted major sanctions. But it wasn't. It was neither the only violation for the football program nor the only sport in which there were violations. SC was cheating rampantly across the board, and doing so while already under probation. And instead of accepting that, and owning up to the major cheating your team team used to win its championship, you just keep making up lies and excuses.