{"id":1459,"date":"2013-09-10T12:09:10","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T17:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1459"},"modified":"2013-09-10T12:09:10","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T17:09:10","slug":"sports-illustrateds-five-part-series-on-oklahoma-state-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1459","title":{"rendered":"Sports Illustrated’s five-part series on Oklahoma State football"},"content":{"rendered":"

Illicit payments, toothless drug policies, academic dishonesty and even the use of sex to induce recruits comport with the most cynical perception of big-time college sports programs. More troubling and revealing, though, was the human cost of the corruption in Stillwater. From Dohrmann and Evans’s reporting, a portrait emerges of \u00a0ill-prepared young men who feel they were exploited by the university.\u00a0 Over the past decade an astonishingly large cohort of OSU players never earned a college degree, lasting only a season or two, their scholarships revoked after they were injured, arrested or simply deemed unable to contribute<\/strong>. Once the perks ended and they were discarded, some former Cowboys turned to drugs and crime, and a few attempted or contemplated suicide. As one former OSU assistant says of the players, “The sad part is when [the coaches were] done, they threw them away.<\/strong>“<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

via Sports Illustrated’s five-part series on Oklahoma State football – College Football – SI.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, over at Northwestern:<\/a><\/p>\n

New Northwestern University head basketball coach Chris Collins has put down some roots here, paying $2.55 million for a newly built, seven-bedroom house in Winnetka.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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