Iowa football has arrived!!!

BSpringsteen

BSpringsteen

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From Whitlock's column on the U

There’s a Nevin Shapiro knockoff on every campus. He might not own a yacht or have easy access to hookers, but he supplies in abundance whatever decadence Iowa City has to offer.
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He's right and we all know it. I wonder who that guy is at Iowa.
 
Something like this would be just a bit more difficult to keep on the DL in Iowa City.

I think a booster buying a bunch of players bottle service at the summit or riding on their yacht at the res may raise some eyebrows.
 
Well, this don't compare to cash, hookers, and blow, but we've got to use what we got.

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I'm sitting here wondering exactly what decadence there really is in Iowa City? I mean I can think of a few things but I'm guessing members of the football team get plenty of that on their own.
 
latrans said:
I'm sitting here wondering exactly what decadence there really is in Iowa City? I mean I can think of a few things but I'm guessing members of the football team get plenty of that on their own.
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i spent 4/5 years in IC. Had many friends on the fb team. the only decadence i know that they have is getting to bypass lines at bars, not having to pay cover, free/reduced price drinks and an ample supply of nice looking females.

other than that, i think the corn picture sums it up well.
 
Saying "everyone does it" is trying to justify those who get caught. When the majority of BCS schools are getting caught like Miami, USC, Oregon, osu, and Connecticut then I will accept the "everyone does it" explanation. Until then all this guy is doing is making excuses for major cheaters.
 
For the most part, I like Whitlock. I think he does a good job pointing out the hypocrisy of the establishment.

The problem I have is that it is so laced with racial overtones that it's hard to take him serious sometimes. Everything to him is the "man" keeping the poor black man down. He writes as if sports is just another form of slavery with the only difference being that they traded one group of "masters" for another. ADs, coaches, professional owners, etc are the "masters" who exploit the black man for his gifts and then tosses him away when his gifts no longer make them any more money.

Forget the fact that they are able to take advantage of a free college education (and all the "perks" that go along with being a college athlete), millions of dollars if they are gifted enough to go pro, and the adulation and praise of millions of people.

Yeah, they've got it real rough, don't they?

His points about the hypocrisy of those involved in the upper echelon of sports.....be they the NCAA, ADs, college presidents, coaches, owners, etc really are good points. The double talk that comes out of a lot of their mouths really is pathetic. However, he is constantly drowning out those good points with this constant harping on racism.....whether he overtly states it or covertly states it.
 
SpiderRico said:
For the most part, I like Whitlock. I think he does a good job pointing out the hypocrisy of the establishment.

The problem I have is that it is so laced with racial overtones that it's hard to take him serious sometimes. Everything to him is the "man" keeping the poor black man down. He writes as if sports is just another form of slavery with the only difference being that they traded one group of "masters" for another. ADs, coaches, professional owners, etc are the "masters" who exploit the black man for his gifts and then tosses him away when his gifts no longer make them any more money.

Forget the fact that they are able to take advantage of a free college education (and all the "perks" that go along with being a college athlete), millions of dollars if they are gifted enough to go pro, and the adulation and praise of millions of people.

Yeah, they've got it real rough, don't they?

His points about the hypocrisy of those involved in the upper echelon of sports.....be they the NCAA, ADs, college presidents, coaches, owners, etc really are good points. The double talk that comes out of a lot of their mouths really is pathetic. However, he is constantly drowning out those good points with this constant harping on racism.....whether he overtly states it or covertly states it.
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That is why he mentioned Iowa City--to interject the race card, yet again.
 
Nothing to the level of Miami, USC, etc. but it does indeed happen everywhere, a violation is still a violation no matter how small. Whitlock is a great writer but he doesn't do himself any favors playing the race card as much as he does.
 
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