with a minor in internet trolling.

Read the story and the comments and didn’t come away with anything I didn’t already know. All I got was Bama are cheats USC cheated but not as bad
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At the risk of another painful session of “Educate DFWTrogan”, let’s do this. From your link:

USC fans don’t want any major penalties. That’s not likely to happen.

Also from your link:

Alabama received five years’ probation, a two-year bowl ban and the loss of 21 scholarships over three years after it was found that Crimson Tide boosters paid players.

Boosters paid players. Again, boosters paid players. That’s the ultimate sin in college sports because it provides a competitive advantage. Preventing pay-for-play is the chief reason the NCAA exists.

Want to hear something funny?

…in the Albert Means case, Means never received a penny of the money alleged to have been paid, and was never supposed to. The money was changing hands between a booster and Means’ coach and there’s no evidence that Means even knew about it. Kenny Smith supposedly did, but on the order of about $20k.

Contrast the allegations against Bush, which (by some accounts) have he and his family receiving more in benefits than Means’ HS coach and Kenny Smith did combined.

Other problems with Miller’s article:

He’s comparing official documents from the NCAA in the ‘Bama case to partial leaks from the USC case and assuming that’s an apt comparison.

He takes the “staring down the barrel of a gun” comment wholly out of context. He makes it sound like it was just about the 1999 infractions, but it was more about the string of repeat-offender cases that led up to it.

He ignores the fact that pretty much every participant in the 2002 infractions case was wholly cooperative with the NCAA and, by the NCAA’s own measure, did everything they could have to prevent this.

Then you have this:

my family and I spend Christmas Eve in Alabama annually, so I know this is a sore subject among the Crimson Tide faithful

Miller is, by all accounts, one of ESPN’s PAC-10 writer, yet he has to listen to SEC fans trumpet the obvious superiority of the conference every year on vacation.

Think he might be a little biased?

come back trojan trolls, come baaaack! i want to talk shit to you….