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Scott Wolf has covered USC for the Daily News since 1996. A USC
graduate, he covered his first Trojan game in 1984 for
the Daily Trojan. Scott is known as the "scourge of the Internet
message boards," according to radio host Petros Papadakis. Despite this
moniker, there's no truth to the rumor he takes pleasure in
antagonizing the "Internet geeks."
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I note that the majority of the first early voters are pessimistic about this situation. Color me a naive optimist, but the fact that the NCAA reviewed O.J.'s admittance quite carefully could play into SC's favor. The NCAA had the same information as SC and found that O.J. was in compliance. So SC should not be held to a higher degree of care than the NCAA up to that point.
After enrolling who knows what O.J. did? Or Bush? Or many others? The schools cannot police all these athletes. And, besides, the times they are a changin'. Ethics are on the decline, from the rude way people drive, to steroid athletic advantages, to taking improper money while in school. This behavior cannot be stopped. Reasonable control is the best we can hope for.
Scott, you pot-stirrer you.
Of course, there is another logical (and most likely) option you didn't consider... that Mayo did wrong but USC cannot be blamed for what it didn't know..... which would be "Wrongdoing by Mayo but not by USC"
"The schools cannot police all these athletes."
You see, there I disagree with you. I'm sorry, but Angelo Johnson is not going to be taking money from an agent any time soon, and neither is our third string full back. There really are only a few players they have to monitor. Is it so hard to monitor 2 or 3 or 4 people on the basketball team? I hate this "plausible deniability" stuff. I suppose the moral is it's okay to cheat as long as we don't get caught.