1hawkeye1
Well-Known Member
The point of what story? I watched the entire Wilson story on the ESPN documentary and remember it as I lived in the area at the time. I get the whole senselessness of the street violence that plagues those areas to this day. It is tragic. I wish a solution could be found for gang related violence that extreme poverty seems to feed.
The interview today with McReynolds was interesting to me because of the fallout from the Deon Thomas affair, much of it pointed at Iowa bb. In the end, it would have been better for Iowa bb to just go along with the system,and maybe try to pay players ourselves...but instead we get hammered by the corrupt system as whistle-blowers, and have any shot at recruiting the inner-city shut down for decades.
In the end, cheating pays..that is the moral of this story.
But you started out your post with "last night on ESPN...." That story was not about players being paid to go to Illinois. Your post confoosed me as I am simpleton.