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OT: 30+ Charleston Southern players suspended

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calinative umstudent said:
Tad Footeball said:
No sympathy here as this is on Charleston Southern as an institution and not the NCAA and their typical horse$hit this time. When I was at UM football players (and probably most scholarship athletes) walked into the bookstore with a list of their classes and they basically had a freakin' waiter walk around and pull their free textbooks and then jump the line to cash them out at the register. Charleston Southern was obviously running some sort of loose honor code debit card system here and it came back to bite them in the *** when a bunch of teenagers probably decided to get headphones instead of that Excerise Physiology 101 textbook.
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Maybe not sympathy, but definitely empathy. This is ****ing stupid. I'm sure there were those that did not buy the book and only bought headphones. But I'm also sure there were some that bought all their books and with the remaining $50 bought notebooks, pencils, etc and were still suspended AND had to pay a fine.....all while they bring in millions for an Athletic department. It is clearly BS, and these schools and NCAA act like they don't have the money to give these players walking around money. This IS on the cartel known as the NCAA.
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I'll meet you halfway. Sympathy for the good souls that did buy addl school supplies. Empathy for the kids that bought headphones or iPods and may have knew it was technically against the rules but obviously didn't think the potential punishment was this severe. I'm stopping short of turning this into an easy indictment of the many stupid rules of the NCAA though as Charleston Southern is well aware of said rules and obviously had a system going here that was obviously going to be abused by teenagers. On top of that, I believe this exact thing was an issue on episodes of that Last Chance U doc series that aired weeks ago and people from every athletic dept in country have probably watched it. It boils down to people breaking rules and then wanting to make this a bigger issue about the flawed system that created the rules.....after they get caught. This program either should blame itself or its administration for being lax in the manner they handled any financial disbursements or benefits and scholarship athletes .

That said, we'd NEVER even hear about this if this was a SEC school. If we did, it'd be years after the fact and the story would disappear after the school offers some obvious lie. See the Laremy Tunsil story.
 
I can't think of anything more unamerican then getting outraged over someone being a little fortunate with money that they've earned.

Do you guys stand outside of whole foods and scream at people for shopping outside of their means because they used a credit card?
 
OrangetieFatface said:
I can't think of anything more unamerican then getting outraged over someone being a little fortunate with money that they've earned.

Do you guys stand outside of whole foods and scream at people for shopping outside of their means because they used a credit card?
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Those people don't have the courage….it's easier to hop on you moral soap box to promote the sham of "amateurism"
 
OrangetieFatface said:
I can't think of anything more unamerican then getting outraged over someone being a little fortunate with money that they've earned.

Do you guys stand outside of whole foods and scream at people for shopping outside of their means because they used a credit card?
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No. But it's a good idea.
 
DTP said:
Tad Footeball said:
No sympathy here as this is on Charleston Southern as an institution and not the NCAA and their typical horse$hit this time. When I was at UM football players (and probably most scholarship athletes) walked into the bookstore with a list of their classes and they basically had a freakin' waiter walk around and pull their free textbooks and then jump the line to cash them out at the register. Charleston Southern was obviously running some sort of loose honor code debit card system here and it came back to bite them in the *** when a bunch of teenagers probably decided to get headphones instead of that Excerise Physiology 101 textbook.
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This is how it worked at UCF too. Players had a list of books and supplies. The bookstore would give them everything on the list. Nobody was just given a stack of money and told " buy whatever you want".
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Maybe headphones were supplies.
 
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Local news last night said only 16 are suspended for FSU, 14 took the game last week, and two will sit out a later game.
 
Talk about a meaningless game being even more meaningless and less of a practice type of game for FSU who in my opinion should give Charleston Southern an option to forfeit.
 
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