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I'm not even sure why the author of that piece posted the results of his poll. It says that 74% of the coaches polled think no more than 26 teams (20%) are cheating, with 57% saying less than 10% are cheating. The author completely ignored those results to write about his pre-drawn conclusion that cheating is rampant in college football. He should have just written an opinion piece about cheating in college football.

I'm sad to have given that article a click-through.

How many do this AND GET CAUGHT? Those are the ones we know about. The rest is speculation based on probability that those who gat caught are just the careless ones. When you are dealing with millionaires, it may be difficult to tell them what to do - or to NOT do.

Usually it is the unhappy cheater who feels he/she didn't get their fair compensation that leads to disclosure. Remember the Logan Young case where the NCAA was informed by a coach who felt short-changed by Young and made the report. Had Young paid as promised, we might still think that player went to Bama because he loved the staff.

(08-07-2017 12:08 PM)imjustafatkid Wrote:  I'm not even sure why the author of that piece posted the results of his poll. It says that 74% of the coaches polled think no more than 26 teams (20%) are cheating, with 57% saying less than 10% are cheating. The author completely ignored those results to write about his pre-drawn conclusion that cheating is rampant in college football. He should have just written an opinion piece about cheating in college football.

I'm sad to have given that article a click-through.

Those are opinions of coaches, whose livelihood depend on exploiting the current system in place. If you want to believe less than 10% are cheating feel free to have that opinion. I see no way it's even close to possible that this is the case in the current climate. Players are getting paid massive amounts of money all over the place, and whether it's right or wrong, it's still against the rules in place.

All any beat writer has to do is go jot down tags and vin numbers of all of the late model $40k+ cars in the player lots during Alabama and Auburn football practices and blow the whole thing wide open, but then they would of course lose their job as beat writer.

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(08-07-2017 12:08 PM)imjustafatkid Wrote:  I'm not even sure why the author of that piece posted the results of his poll. It says that 74% of the coaches polled think no more than 26 teams (20%) are cheating, with 57% saying less than 10% are cheating. The author completely ignored those results to write about his pre-drawn conclusion that cheating is rampant in college football. He should have just written an opinion piece about cheating in college football.

I'm sad to have given that article a click-through.

If you don't think that 20% is cheating is a big deal, maybe you should ask the other coaches in the same division about their opinion of their one guy.

The number who cheat in sport recruiting and team maintenance is probably similar to the number of other business persons who cheat on their individual or company / corporate tax returns, their expense accounts or "fudge" on their profit /loss statements. Keep in mind that most politicians are former business persons who were convinced by friends to run for office.