Retired sports writer/classmate of JoPa lets loose a rant on today's college football

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Last Updated: September 03. 2011 6:02PM
Jerry Green
Turncoats plus cheaters plus bad math equals college football


The college football season is upon us with all its sis-boom-bah, its flock of outlaw programs and its weekly polls, educated — there's an odd word to connect to major college football — guesses.

We start this season with the Big Ten having 12 teams and the Big 12 having 10 teams. And we wonder why America's finest universities have low graduation rates among the NCAA's so-called student athletes.

And as we begin we have the defectors and the cheaters, the chief college football newsmakers since the January BCS championship game.

Nebraska has joined up to become part of the remodeled Big Ten, the bastion of Michigan, Michigan State, and Ohio State. Colorado and Utah have become turncoats to their established conferences and now mix with Southern California, Washington and Stanford in the Pac-12 — once upon a time known as the Pac-10.

And to update the start of this season, we have Ohio State, Auburn, Miami, Oregon, USC, Louisiana State and Boise State among the perennial powers caught with variations of naughty behavior.

And we wonder why — again — some of the foremost student athletes in intercollegiate football will sign their future NFL contracts with Xs.

To add to the football festivities, we have Texas A&M and Oklahoma scheming to secede from the mathematically challenged Big 12 to enlist in the mighty Southeastern Conference.

Meanwhile, we have Texas aligned with ESPN, America's foremost provider of mass football melodrama and frequent misinformation, in the formation of the Longhorn Network.


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