Oh I agree that it's good for the players, and I'm glad because if you claim to be giving them an education, it shouldn't be a renewable product. That being said, college sports is a business, so there is an underlying factor here.

and it was as a blatant recruiting/marketing tool. The school doesn't want it, but by having it, suddenly they have something no other school has. Kinda f-ed up that way when you think about it.

Pretty ignorant of you to take that comment literally. Most kids I know do have drinking and/or smoking citations yet are able to work any and all types of jobs (from blue collar to lawyers/bankers/consultants, etc) and are not shamed for these infractions, because people make mistakes.

Lived upstate, only a 1.5 hour drive from Cooperstown for four years, but never made it there, surprisingly. And yeah, vendettas against players prove you shouldn't have a say in the voting process. That being said, the managers of the AL once gave Palmeiro the 1st Base Gold Glove in a season where he played less than…

It just proves to further the point the BBWAA shouldn't be involved in voting for the HOF. The org. is almost like the NCAA, everything it does is just incredulous. There's obviously never going to be a perfect voting system in any sport for an arbitrary "Hall of Fame," but these changes just make it even worse.

You know Albert Pujols's trainer was connected to distributed steroids, so likely he was a user. Let's just say that it's more likely than not that there were multiple former users on the '06 team, considering it had only been banned for 2 years

Yep, there used to be two pots of coffee in the clubhouse, one was the regular caffeinated, the other was spiked with Greenies

And Buzz Bissinger's "3 Night's in August." Did you ever read that? Made me want to puke. He mapped out the final forty starts of the year, calling it his "Thing of Beauty." And that was just the first chapter...

They should just be admitted with no asterisk. Everyone turned a blind eye to it, and it was not illegal, so you can't just retroactively say "screw those guys" when it comes time to vote them in.

Is there a more hated successful manager/coach in any sport? The media has built up this obsession of LaRussa, but look at what he actually happened on his watch.

Torn meniscus all of last year, herniated disc until an epidural a few weeks ago and since then he's been hitting around .300. There's hope

Yeah, you can obviously use it how you like; however, if you don't use it on rent/food and you have no other money to fall back on, then you'll get kicked out of housing.

Sounds like he had a some parents that were nice enough/able to support him. If that's the case, then yeah you can do whatever you want with the money. Trust me, I knew players that would live in shitty housing far away from campus on purpose to save as much of the monthly check as possible

One of the two "punting experts" the Vikings hired said he was in the top third of all punters. They also both admitted that it's nearly impossible to rank punters, because they have no idea what any punter on another team is being told by his special teams coach.

You're actually very wrong. You get that check, but have to use it for housing. Any athlete that lives on campus has to use that same check for their room and board. I was involved in D1 athletics, so I know how it works. Room and board isn't "paid for" by the university. You're given a grant, hence your neighbors…

His claim would be he's fired over his opinion on gay marriage. If that's the "for cause" reason he's fired, then that I'm pretty sure would be illegal

I also think part of it is he is angry at being blackballed (most likely the case, and unsurprising) from the league, and therefore wants to air dirty laundry form a locker room that the NFL thinks it can keep private. I think he wants to take on Goodell and co and show them that they're not these god figures they act…

Part of the reason he doesn't keep his mouth shut, I'd assume, is because he's taking on not just the Vikings, but "The Shield." He knows he's fighting a literal PR machine that has millions of sheep that will believe what it wants them to believe. If he doesn't come out like this, then he'll lose the PR war.

Soon the draft will be 14 days long: 1/2 round each day. I'm not even joking

Care to go more in depth? Can't say I've ever spent time in Tennessee, but am curious to know more about how his son has caused all of these problems