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Media daze
The 5-at-10 and the cast of characters that make up Press Row spent most of last week at SEC media days.
The rest of the power college athletic conferences are next deep in their media events this week. Here are four items of interest across the college sports landscape. (Feel free to use that old-school Walter Cronkite type-writer/breaking news music in the background.)
– Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby (here’s betting he can teased as a tot) said plainly that cheating pays in college sports. With the state of flux for the NCAA and their limited capacity to investigate and enforce – especially at a time when the power leagues like Ol’ Bob’s there are practically threatening to leave every other week – he makes a fair statement. But Bob, you and the rest of the big-boy schools want to have more autonomy and want in some ways to police yourselves, right? You are the Big 12, which once was the Big Eight, which once was the Southwestern Conference, which has a history so dirty and crooked Louisiana politicians were considered lightweights. And, if the power conferences are allowed the autonomy to police themselves, do we really think that will cut back on the cheating? Sure we don’t.