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On page 8C of today's DMN, Vince Young say's "USC haven't seen the different guys on our team that are gangsta" Very honest statement! Pass out the switchblades and pistols............the longhorns are in da' house baby!!!!

Like USC has not seen their own gangstas!!!

The biggest denial going out there amongst all fans is that their team is full of nice young student athletes while the other team is full of no-account criminals.

If your team is among the top twenty football teams in america, the majority of the team is made up of near (or actual) criminals. That is just the way it is. If SMU finds itself there in our lifetime it will be because we made that compromise - which I say we go ahead and make.

unfortunately -

u are right -

how college football & basketball athletics have changed

Poor, silly white boys with no understanding of street lingo.

LOL!!!! I was just wondering, how long it would take you to run to their defense! I think if there were video of ut athletes shooting someone, you would come on this board and claim, WELL.........they must have altered the video!!!

ALEX LIFESON wrote: .... "USC haven't seen the different guys on our team that are gangsta" ....

Anyone have a Young-to-English dictionary?

re: If your team is among the top twenty football teams in america, the majority of the team is made up of near (or actual) criminals

Yeah sure....tell Joe Paterno & Charlie Weis’ that!

I was watching the TCU v Iowa St. game and the idiot anouncers are talking about what a great story the Iowa State DE Berryman is. He is a convicted felon who spent 258 days in jail for beating up another student and taking $4 from him and stealing another students cell phone. He is now back with the team. I am sure that the students that were attacked are just thrilled that this FELON is allowed back on campus and on a full ride. Of course he had 4.5 sacks so I guess all is forgiven right?

This is what is wrong with college football. What I would love to see is a rule that prevents convicted felons from playing college football. I am sure that the BCS schools would be impacted the most but then again I know what Nevada has 2 players on their team this year that would be impacted as well.

BrianTinBigD wrote: .... What I would love to see is a rule that prevents convicted felons from playing college football....

Couldn't agree with you more, although I'd extend it, of course, to all sports.
Can you imagine how this would affect Miami's recruiting strategy?

Previous poster proves my point - ND and Penn St. are just as bad as anyone else, but their fans are in denial.

What are you saying? That felons can play the game of football better than non-felons? This is crap.

My point is that a concivted felon does not deserve getting a full ride scholarship. It would be a simple rule. It has nothing to do with ability. You commit a felony and you can't play college football. You must go straight to semi-pro or pro and are not allowed on a college football team.

I remember we had a convicted felon in my freshman humanities class. He and the professor staged a stabbing to see what our perceptions were for convicted felons. It was pretty weird stuff. The felon was not, I repeat, not on any SMU sports team. That said, a nice private school like the University of Miami, seems to tolerate a few felons now and then. Sean Taylor, aside from being about the best safety I've ever seen, seems to have a small problem with criminal behavior off the field. Perhaps we could lease space in Huntsville and have a satelite campus there and just pull players out for games with an armed escort of course. Sort of like our Taos campus only with barbed wire and guns. We could put all the criminals on need scholarships and then pick whichever ones seemed to show the most promise in the 40. And the pointy heads at the NCAA will think we're helping rehabilitate criminals. What a concept!!!

EastStang wrote:Perhaps we could lease space in Huntsville and have a satelite campus there and just pull players out for games with an armed escort of course. Sort of like our Taos campus only with barbed wire and guns. We could put all the criminals on need scholarships and then pick whichever ones seemed to show the most promise in the 40. And the pointy heads at the NCAA will think we're helping rehabilitate criminals. What a concept!!!

Or, we can bring in ringers for one game, like the coach of Houston's Texas Christian High School did...
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