SI: Oklahoma State football players got sex, drugs and money

Duh.

 

She won the Miss Dual Flotation Devices pageant in 2008.

 

Bravo. Great pull for so many reasons. Two big ones.

 

Not so cocky addressing this story.
http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/09/09/mike-gundy-releases-video-statement-about-sports-illustrated-series/

 

Part 1 (The Money) is up now:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/college-football/news/20130910/oklahoma-state-part-1-money/?sct=hp_t11_a2

 

OSU fans are already saying it's all just disgruntled former players and Thayer Evans hating their school. Some of the sources definitely fit the "disgruntled" description, but not all.

Still, I wonder about why there doesn't seem to have been a request made for the compliance records relating to all this since some people say they contacted the compliance office and in some cases it involved athletes filling out work sign-in sheets.

 

SI kind of buried the lede in the last graf ...

At Oklahoma State the bonus system, the booster and coach payouts, and the bogus jobs provided players with money that was seldom spent on extravagances. One or two standouts bought a new car or expensive jewelry, team members say, but the vast majority of the players used the extra cash to purchase everyday items -- food, clothing, tickets to a movie. "There were some athletes who were almost starving," says Carter. "Wherever the money came from, they were like, Yeah, I'll take that."

 

The sources being "disgruntled players" doesn't mean the story isn't true. Love how people believe that because the source is someone pissed off at the school, it inoculates them from blame.

 

However, I'm calling BS on this. Athletes at FBS schools in BCS conferences don't starve. I've seen the spread at a major college training table. They don't go hungry unless they're too lazy to walk to the dining hall.

 

WVU fans folks are going nuts too.

Not only are a few of those coaches now here, but the small-school-to-big-time program growth model that OK State followed may hit a little too close to home in Mo'Town.

 

No, they won't starve. But once they move off-campus, they may want to cook for themselves or order a pizza or something.

 

Anyone else find it a little hypocritical that we constantly implore colleges to better prepare kids for the real world then we complain when they do?