ESPN Investigates Oversigning
by Tyler T. on Dec 19, 2010 3:29 PM EST
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PrintESPN has a good piece on the oversigning movement in college football and, specifically, the SEC's abuse of the lack of NCAA regulation. It's disappointing that they didn't involve Alabama more in this story, as you can't really discuss oversigning without involving Nick Saban.
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Forget it, Tyler. It's Chinatown.
Oversigning.com has a pretty good bead on oversigning news when it happens. Though the main guy is a bit ham-handed at editorializing, he makes most of the same points this ESPN story does: it’s only the SEC (except Vandy/Georgia/ who oversigns egregiously (except for Vandy/Georgia/Florida, Miami, and Troy), and about the numbers. The commenters there don’t give a fuck. For every one of these stories about how people are getting screwed out of college educations, they attack the main guy’s Buckeye fandom or claim that their coaches don’t force people to leave the program (even when they do, like in the above video) or point to some incomparable situation at Ohio State or claim that the coaches treating the players like cattle is GOOD (because they’re giving illiterate mongoloids the ability to flunk out of college or, in Auburn’s case, earn a sociology degree). Until Mike Slive or the NCAA change recruiting rules to actually prevent oversigning and sanction the coaches who do, there’s no point in telling reasonably moral people (i.e. 95% of college football fans) that oversigning is bad when the 5% who actually needs to change (the paranoid SEC types) are sociopathic.
Sorry for the vitriol, but there is nothing in college football, not the BCS or Cam Newton or pay-for-play that makes me angrier than this.
Ann Arbor is a trollop.
I found Oversigning.com last night. Very impressive site, and while the commenters seem to not care, keep in mind the majority of readers probably don’t coment. I think it’s had 3 million hits, so it is causing some attention to be paid to the problem. I think we have to keep in mind that most fans probably have no clue what it is, or at least know little about it, especially if they only follow the sport casually. It is good for the awareness of Oversigning to grow, even among the 95% that you mentioned.
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