The Pros And Cons Of College Football Scandal

College football has had very noteworthy scandals over the years. Just do a Google search for "college football" and "scandal", and any number of incidents pop up. A college football coach -- who I called legendary up until 2011 -- was disgraced due to the actions of an assistant. A quarterback who currently plays for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers had his share of scandal when he was in college at Florida State.

Some scandals are more severe than others, and the most famous of which in my mind is the scandal that involved Southern Methodist University in the late 1980s. If you've never heard that story, SMU was found guilty of bribing recruits to get them to commit to the Mustangs. The NCAA took action and leveled the following penalties:

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It was the most hardcore penalty ever levied by the NCAA, and it destroyed the SMU football program. When June Jones led the Mustangs to a bowl victory in 2009, it was the first bowl game SMU won since the "death penalty".
Why am I bringing this up?

Because if I were the president of the NCAA, I would hand the Baylor Bears football program the same kind of penalty.

Two days ago, a federal lawsuit was filed against the Baylor Bears that claimed that 31 football players at the university engaged in 52 "acts of rape" over four years. The acts included alleged five gang rapes -- some involving ten or more players. Allegations of video recording and sharing these acts among teammates were also included in the lawsuit. Elizabeth Doe, a Virginia woman and the latest victim to come forward, told lawyers that she was allegedly gang raped in 2013 by two Baylor football players.

Allegations also state coaches of the Baylor football program used members of the "Baylor Bruins" -- a hostess program for the university for new students -- to have sex with recruits and players. This allegation was refuted by an unnamed former assistant football coach on ESPN's "Outside the Lines"

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