It seems as though all the talk of college football is about the Cam Newton scandal. Of course most people have already counted him as a thief, cheater, and a selfish guy after he stole a laptop, supposedly bought a paper off the internet, and asked for each school who recruited him to pay $200,000. I am not going to refute any of this happened, but what I am going to refute is the NCAA and what they pick and choose to care about. We have been through the UNC scandal this year where half of the team was dismissed or suspended, Reggie Bush lost his Heisman trophy for similar allegations that are against Cam Newton, and Michigan had to self impose punishments on their football team for working out too long. What about all the arrests that have taken place? Isn't LaMichael James from Oregon in the running for the same Heisman trophy that Cam Newton is up for that talks about how important integrity is to the voting panel yet he has admitted guilty to physical harrassment? James was only suspended for ONE game this year and the NCAA stayed out of it! Wasn't Carlos Dunlap from Florida arrested for a DUI last year but the NCAA still didn't step in? How many arrests have there been this year alone yet besides the law of the land stepping in, the NCAA has stepped aside?
My point to all of this is that the NCAA can't control everything. Agents will always have power and former players that still have friends on the team will always pay for a friend to come and visit. Alums from the school will do whatever it takes for the highest recruit to come to their school and they will still give extravagant gifts once they get there. Should their be regulations, ABSOLUTELY! I don't think that the college football players should be paid regardless of how much money they bring into the school, but I also don't think the NCAA should have as much power as they do either. Do I think agents and alums should give money, absolutely not, but at the same time do I think it is going to stop, probably not. Here is how I look at the NCAA-they are like our government. The Government seems to have too much power with their rules and how they spend their money, but when they delegate that power to each state's government, more seems to get accomplished. So do I like the SEC stepping in on the Cam Newton situation, absolutely YES! Each conference should concern themself over the internal happenings of each school. When the problem takes them outside of their conference, that's when the NCAA should step in and help. The NCAA can still make their rules and regulations within reason but with the help of each conference, I feel like they will get a lot more done and I truly believe there will be less problems like the Cam Newton sitauation.
PICKS of the WEEK Last week's record- 12-5
Miami vs GT-GT
Ole Miss vs Tenn-Ole Miss
Michigan vs Purdue-Michigan
Kansas St vs Missouri-Kansas St
Utah vs Notre Dame- Utah
Georgia vs Auburn- GO DAWGS
Penn St vs Ohio St-Ohio St
Texas Tech vs Oklahoma-Oklahoma
Virginia Tech vs UNC-GO HEELS
Texas A&M vs Baylor-Baylor
Miss St vs Bama-Bama
South Carolina vs Florida-GO GATORS
Oklahoma St vs Texas-Oklahoma St
USC vs Arizona-USC
Clemson vs FSU-FSU
