Posted on 04/21/2017 8:53:09 AM PDT by mikeus_maximus
"One of Aaron Hernandez’s first official acts as a freshman football player for the Florida Gators was to sucker punch an employee at a Gainesville bar so hard that he ruptured the poor guy’s ear drum. Tim Tebow, who then was a sophomore quarterback, intervened in the dispute and tried to make everything better. Tebow, you see, was the public face of Urban Meyer’s national championship-winning program at UF. Aaron Hernandez was its secret and seedy underbelly. Hard to believe the Gators had one of the greatest role models in sports history and one of the most heinous criminals in sports history on the same team, at the same time. And not even all of Tebow’s goodness could eradicate the immense evil Hernandez harbored inside himself. ...
It should be noted that Hernandez was never criminally charged in the incident in which he ruptured the Gainesville bar employee’s eardrum, nor was he given any significant punishment by UF. In another more serious case in 2007, he was reportedly never even questioned by police or his head coach even though he was a suspect in Gainesville shooting that left two men wounded, including one who was shot in the back of the head. That case, categorized as an attempted homicide, remains unsolved. When the Gainesville Sun’s Pat Dooley asked Meyer, now the head coach at Ohio State, about the shooting incident four years ago, Meyer made it sound as if it was just a minor distraction. .... "
(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...
It has become a huge money making industry for NCAA, MSM, beer and car advertisers and trinket makers(China).
That’s the problem...............
Pretty much of college sports.
I always thought the old saw that college coaches mold the character of their athletes was a bunch of crap. The only important metric was winning and the coaches knew that it was the only way to keep their jobs. A perfect example of this is Joe Paterno’s ignoring of reports that kids were being raped in his shower rooms, and he dismissed the report as “some kid got fondled.” They have no interest beyond the win-loss record.
Amateurism = communism. Amateurism should never be a part of American values and I don’t know how you could think that it should be.
Daily Mail reported today that Hernandez had a gay lover in prison. “seedy underbelly” indeed/
Thew media will go to any extent to protect Bill Belichick. Roger Goodell probably wrote this himself. But, please, let’s remember that every single thing Aaron Hernandez did was Urban Meyer and Tib Tebow’s fault.
I love what Tebow stands for but lets be honest, he was TERRIBLE as a QB in the NFL.
As long as fans wrap their lives around “their team” there will be too much money and too much crap.
If the big conference teams build their squads around student athletes, you would see better games on Friday nights at the local high school.
But that isn’t going to happen.
Yeah, watch any of the ESPN 20 for 20 docs, and most of them show thugs failing at real life.
I have a relative who works in that prison. That rumor is BS. No one was touching him. And he hadn’t gotten into that stuff.
Oh yeah, because the media loves Belichek.
The Pats did the right thing. They cut his loose as soon as they could. And they did not look back.
Belichek had nothing to do with this adult’s behavior.
Totally the point of the article...
College sports used to be all about amateurism—until some sports started drawing in lots of money. Then college sports became all about making more money by getting better and better talent. But too much of the best talent wasn’t really college material. The athletes make lots of money for their colleges, but aren’t allowed to be (officially) paid themselves. It’s all become a farce.
Let the NFL and NBA establish their own farm systems. Let the athletes on those farm clubs get paid what they’re worth. If students at college want to play football or basketball, let them. But no athletic scholarships, no pay. They will be true scholar athletes. If they are good enough to turn pro, scouts can search them out and offer them jobs. The student can decide for himself if getting a degree or turning pro is better for him.
Pro Atheltes have often come out of the lower classes and the attention and money overwhelm them.
Think about Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford. What would their lives be like today? They spent most of the 1950’s drunk.
Ty Cobb was a jerk. Babe Ruth would have been out of control nowadays.
Lou Gerhig was probably the best role model. Few and far between.
The media protects Belichek. So you think Urban Meyer and Tim Tebow are responsible for his actions?
Tebow was brilliant as a college quarterback....he wasn’t bad in the pros but he got so little real time and backing to be better....
too many universities are known for their sports teams before their education.
Seems backwards and deviant from the original intent to be a university to me.
Actually, the athletes make lots of money for the college athletic department.
At most colleges, that's where it stays. Oh, I'm sure there are some sort of fringe benefits that a college gets from having a top athletic program. But it is difficult to accurately quantify. As far as following the money directly, at most schools 100% of the athletic department revenue stays in the athletic department and does nothing financially for academics.
Any other idiotic ideas? As a newby, Tebow turned the Broncos around and took them to the playoffs further than anyone expected.
He was damn good, but make no mistake, people above disliked him because he was swimming against the NFL thug current. Elway didn’t like seeing someone way more popular than him.
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