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| Jim Tressel speaking at his news conference on the scandal |
In the back of every ones minds who follows major collegiate sports programs has to wonder, how much does cheating happens? Lately in the news, coaches of major collegiate have come under fire for unethical behavior and breaking NCAA rules. Of the latest in the news is Ohio State coach Jim Tressel. He was found to be hiding facts about his players selling memorabilia to a local tattoo shop. In December, five student-athletes on the football team was suspended by the NCAA for the first five games of the 2011 season because of their actions. It has been made public that Coach Tressel has known about the situation since as early as April. This is just one of the many situations that has come about, others consist of Oregon's football program for paying a man to recruit a high school athlete and the Tennessee men's basketball program gave improper visits for recruits and then lied to the NCAA about it. These are just a few of the recent discoveries made by the NCAA and these are just some of the minor ones. The University of Southern California has seen its football program and basketball programs put on post season sanctions. The findings in this case consisted of one of their players received $100,000 from and agent and free tickets to professional sporting events. The question I have is, how many programs are actually doing these things? These are just the teams that are getting caught, I could only imagine that there are many other happening that have just not been discovered yet. I believe it so much that, I would even go to say that in major collegiate sports that if your not cheating, your not winning. Many programs have to look in a mirror and ask them selves, when is enough actually enough. NCAA is suppose to be an association where amateurs are suppose to compete, while it seems that some of these student-athletes are making a living playing collegiate sports.
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