Damn, OU got Bomar'd bad. I agree this could be proactive on stoops part. Hopefully not for OU's sake. Aggy should be happy. TraderbigtexxxJorge, hurry up and finish here, you will fit in fine at texags.com
Perspective from a Sooner fan: Bomar was caught drinking after the TCU game (1st game/loss of the season) and then was caught again drinking at a Hornet's game.
I'm not saying this because I'm a Longhorn, but I'm saying this because I'm a fan of College Sports. The NCAA should launch a pretty in-depth invesitgation on OU's athletic program. I am very suspicious that Adrian Peterson happened to get a brand new Lexus from a dealership that just got caught paying 2 OU players $18,000 for 5 hours a week.
This is truly the epitome of irony. Have you not noticed that your own school's football team has a drug problem (how many players in the last 5 years have been caught with drugs? 20?), a problem with graduating its players, and even had a major NCAA violation with the baseball team for a very similar offense of having a sham job that illegally paid a volunteer coach (completely against NCAA rules)?
20? If you were gonna make sh*t up, couldn't you have come up with an even higher arbitrary number? I can think of 3 or 4 football players linked to Texas since 1996 (10 years, rather than 5, if you weren't sure about the math in that one, bigtexxx) that have been involved in drugs. 1. Ramonce Taylor, as has been documented. 2. Ricky Williams, as has been notably documented in his pro career. 3. and 4. Kwame Cavil and Aaron Humphrey ALLEGEDLY the night before the Cotton Bowl vs. Arkansas in January 2000. If you can give me 16 more players in the last 10 years, let alone 5, it'd be the first time you impressed me with your anti-UT banter. (Wow....I really need to be on the BBS more, because I TOTALLY overlooked bigtexxx's posts on the academic/ athletic issues at Tennessee, Miami, USC and Auburn the past few weeks. They had to be on here somewhere, right? I mean, we all know he responds to ALL schools' issues of academic integrity, right? Or, maybe like the good Rice Owl he is, he cheated and is having someone else post for him in regard to those issues....)
Business as usual in the BC$ conferences.. Seriously, can we stop bu!!sh*ting around and just give these guys stipends?
I forgot to type that I know UT has had it share of problems as well, but both OU's basketball and football team broken some major NCAA rules. bigtexxx- Do you actually believe paying a volunteer assistant coach on the baseball team is just as serious as the starting QB for OU receiving $18,000 working 5 hours a week? And how did you come up with 20? I'll have to admit I'll miss your silly UT rants. I don't think you have ever once been right, but of course, you always bail the thread just in time.
jungle.....funny you bring those schools up, as a fan of an SEC school.. I read a lot on Tennessee and Auburn as of late Have posted on them on other boards... I spent a lot of time reading up on that Auburn NY Times story You are right.. there are far more schools with problems than just UT and OU
i guess bigtexxx has decided to go with comedy for his last few posts. my god man. graduating players is not an ncaa rule, so why would they investigate that. I would suspect a lot of major programs have players who use recreational drugs. there is already a system in place to catch that. if you know players are being caught, apparently it works.
I can't remember a time when I've been proven wrong. UT-Austin runs an athletics program designed to win, at the expense of the quality of person/student they bring in to do so. Drugs, not graduating players, setting up sham jobs for volunteer coaches to gain advantages, having a star player who completed 3.5 years of education at UT-Austin score a freaking 6 on the Wonderlic test, etc. It's so bad that it's comical. I'm surprised the school is letting its name get drug through the mud and risk its good academic reputation. Ramonce Taylor's drug bust was a bigger story in the papers than anything that's happened academically at the school in as long as I can remember. In terms of football team drug problems, I'm not sure if it's 20 or not. That's why I initially asked. Off the top of my head, players who have been busted include Ramonce Taylor, Ricky Williams, Cedric Benson, Selvin Young, Edorian McCullough, Aaron Harris, Larry Dibbles, Erik Hardeman (felony possession of coke), Kwame Cavil, Aaron Humphrey. That's TEN players right there. Just a pathetic embarrassment to college athletics. The fans don't even care, they're just happy when they see more points on the board than their opponent. This doesn't even include things like Brock Edwards assaulting people to the point they need facial reconstructive surgery, Matt Nordgren and Cedric Griffin getting CONVICTED for assault and criminal mischief. Don't forget about Jason Klotz beating his girlfriend, either, or the baseball players getting into a fight a couple of years ago at a restaurant in Arlington. All of these players remained on their respective UT-Austin athletic teams. Awful. It's completely out of control over there, and it's about time somebody pointed it out instead of just ignoring it.
Absolutely ridiculous. I'll give you that our athletes aren't great students, but that is true at any halfway decent athletic program, but to say that the University as a whole isn't academically accomplished is downright ignorant. Vince didn't score a 6, and don't act like you don't know exactly how many UT athletes have been involved in some sort of drug problem. If you listed 10, that's probably how many there are. Six more, texxx...don't go wasting your posts in the D&D or, heaven forbid, the GARM...we need to hear more of your opinions regarding the University of Texas.
6 posts left and football season is about to start, I would think you would want to save one for the weekend of Sept 16th.
Are you blind? Did you not read where I wrote that UT-Austin had a good academic reputation? They're the 52nd best school in the country according to US News. That's good. I said that there hasn't been an article in the papers related to academics at UT-Austin as big as the Ramonce Taylor drug bust. People read the news. All these drug busts, assaults, and other criminal activity are not having a positive effect on the school's reputation overall. It's bad PR.
bigtexxx, compared to other big-time college athletic programs, would you say UT's troubles are worse, roughly equal, or better? What about OU? You keep harping on UT, but other programs have worse problems. Yet, I never hear a peep out of you about them. Why is that? If you're going to shake your fist at UT, frame it in a reference so as to compare it to other large, public schools, like Ohio State and FSU, not small, private schools like Rice. (Hence my first question.) Otherwise, I could compare my school (Cornell) to yours (Rice) and say that, relatively speaking, Rice is a veritable cesspool for athletic violations and arrests versus my school. See, I can play your game, too.
