I think you meant Nick Saban at Alabama, not Lou Saban, the other unrelated famous coach.
This happened at Penn State, but who doesn’t think this couldn’t happen at Alabama, Texas, Michigan, USC, or even at basketball powers like Kansas or North Carolina?
College sports is the most corrupt sporting institution in this country, hands down. Fans will overlook rape, murder, molesting, cheating, and other illegal and institutional violations, if it means conference championships, bowl victories, NCAA tournament runs, and national championships. Roll Tide; Hook em’ Horns, On Wisconsin, Rock Chalk Jayhawk, we are Penn State; win at all costs!!!! So what if our assistants molest over 50 kids, or our players rape girls all over campuses, or we pay players to come to our school, or violate so many NCAA violations. We won the NCAA tournament, or the Fiesta Bowl! Go team go!!!! Kentucky is so much of a better school than Rice, because they have won 8 national basketball championships, and Rice has won zero. And Alabama is a much better school than Northwestern, because Alabama has won 13 national football championships, and Northwestern has won zero.
In the SEC (Surely Everyone’s Cheating), every school except for Vanderbilt has had major NCAA violations since 1990. And why do these schools do it? Well, how many Sugar, Fiesta, Orange, and Rose Bowls, and national championships in football or basketball has Vanderbilt won? (actually ZERO - EVER!!!) How many has Alabama, Auburn, LSU, Tennessee, Florida, Arkansas, and Kentucky won just since 1990? In basketball, those teams have won 6 N.C., and in football they have won 12 national championships since 1990. Nobody cares how much the SEC schools cheat; its just their WINNING(Charlie Sheen??????) attitude that everyone cares about.
I have always had high regard and respect for the southern states as having more moral, God-fearing, descent folks than the rest of the country. I guess in college sports, though, they absolutely don’t.
> In the SEC (Surely Everyone’s Cheating), every school except for Vanderbilt has had major NCAA violations since 1990...I have always had high regard and respect for the southern states as having more moral, God-fearing, descent folks than the rest of the country. I guess in college sports, though, they absolutely don’t.
‘Major’ doesn’t necessarily mean it helped them significantly in winning (though I don’t doubt that some of that has occurred). My alma mater, the University of South Carolina, just got one for some players staying at a local hotel for a much lower long-term rate than ordinary customers (apparently the hotel benefited because other customers like to be around football players). It wasn’t accused of using that to gain a competitive advantage in recruiting, though, and the university itself took steps to remedy it (after its compliance officer had admittedly been grossly negligent in monitoring the situation).
I think the main reason the SEC tends to win in football is that recruits like to play in whatever conference is best at the moment, and right now that’s the SEC. Also that conference pays coaches a lot, and football is the major sport in the high schools, and a big part of popular culture.
The University of South Carolina won two straight national championships in baseball, though, and made it to the finals the third year (this year) without any scandal or credible accusation that it won because of cheating. It has had good coaches, and in recent years has built a nice stadium and facilities (totally within the rules). Also the climate of the South gives southern schools an advantage in baseball.