I can't get over how many people are shocked and disillusioned by this. Don't they have any knowledge of the history of college sports? When I was a sports mad kid (11-12 years old), I tried to read every sports history type book that my library had. MLB, NFL, college, etc. It was shocking to find out how thuggish baseball was before WWI, but nothing came close to how shocking the stuff going on in college football was (and basketball too, once it got going). Things far beyond this current scandal, Ivy League schools involved up to their necks. Paid players, slush finds, sex scandals, non students playing entire seasons. While they were eventually able to tone down the most outrageous stuff, they have never been able to really clean things up. There is no "good old days", when the sport was pure. It's been filthy since the beginning. When you accept that reality, you will be able to deal with the scandals, when they occasionally come to light. Cheating is a way of life, be it sports, business, or politics. As they say down in NASCAR country, "if you ain't cheatin', you ain't tryin'."
