[Husker] Two Husker Wrestlers Caught with their pants down

[jon johnston]

On Aug 14, 2008, at 7:46 AM, Steve Reichenbach wrote:

>> I don't think the rule is outdated, I think it's more pertinent than
>> ever. Never before could college athletes use celebrity to their
>> advantage, never before could they be so taken advantage of. You said
>> it yourself with the USC reference.
>>
>> This is part of paying dues, and what these guys did was so  
>> incredibly
>> stupid, it's beyond belief.
>
> I'm not commenting on either the online pictures or whether or not
> the NCAA rule is outdated, but it is a little funny to say that the
> NCAA has to protect the athletes from ways they could make money.
> The NCAA may have an interest in doing so, but it isn't really to
> keep them from being "taken advantage of".  In fact, some argue, with
> some merit, that it is the NCAA that takes advantage of the athletes.
>


It's a fine line either way, making money or being taken advantage of.  
Maybe ask Rhett Bhomar how he feels about it.

At some point here, the arms race we're in is going to have some  
serious implications, there's a crisis brewing because the discrepancy  
between have and have not is increasing all of the time. It's not so  
much the money, because that's been an issue for nearly 100 years now,  
but it's the number of organizations who can't keep up that's the  
problem, ala French Revolution.

Jon Johnston
http://www.cornnation.com