Geez, Lighten Up Sexual Ballers

Wow. I guess it has been a while since the last entry. As usual, life happens I guess. Anyhow, I've recently exposed myself to a little more media. I vaguely know who Marc Tyler is, a senior running back at RBU, "Reggie Bush University," but I could not help laughing out loud when he was flagged down by TMZ outside a nightclub.His rant about RBU, getting paid, and being from USC, the University of Sexual Ballers, was just flat out hilarious. I'm even laughing now.

Tyler drew harsh backlash from his coaches and administrators and his dad even sided with them. He has been suspended for at least 1 game in the upcoming season. This, however, is not what nearly made me go crazy. While listening to a radio show, USC Athletic Director Pat Haden mentioned that he and the coaching staff considered dismissing him from the team altogether. WHAAAAAAAAATTTTTT!!!!!!! Dismissing him from the team!?!?!?!?

Now this pissed me off. Don't forget how Lane Kiffin was one of the complicit coaches during the flagrant Pete Carroll era. If anyone believes Kiffin did not know what was going on while an assistant at USC during the Carroll era, then they are super-naive (I tend to gratuitously put super before any word possible). He saw guys rolling around in nice cars, nice clothes, and saw Bush's working class parents being able to afford to fly around the country. Somehow, Marc Tyler was simply making a little harmless joke while being obviously intoxicated outside of a nightclub is worthy of nearly being kicked out of the program?. He's 21 for crying out loud. A 21 year old kid making a harmless joke while drunk outside of nightclub when EVERYONE knows he's joking.

I really hate how the student athletes are treated in today's culture of big time college athletics. Chris Rock made a good joke about blacks in the history of the United States. He compares it to having an uncle that molests you, but pays your way through college *laughing*. That fits with college athletes. There is so much impropriety going on. They are treated like cattle. They are being manipulated by ADULT coaches, ADULT administrators, ADULT scouts, ADULT parents, ADULT boosters, ADULT hangers-on, ADULT "mentors," ADULT media members, ADULT wannabe-agents, and all those ADULT shady-ambiguous types. On the other side, coaches like Kiffin get to bounce around and leave programs in shambles to get their money (yes, that same money that Terrell Pryor is not allowed to make off of his own property) and have absolutely no obligation from anyone to actually have a program that turns boys into men and actually graduate them. Nope. Win at all costs, and just don't get caught even though everyone knows everyone is cheating on some level.

In the grand scheme of things, what are Tyler's comments anyway? You can argue that it came at a bad time with USC still serving its two year post season ban. However, it was a little 20 second joke while drunk outside of a nightclub as a 21 year old. So USC knew Bush was doing what he was doing, but yet threaten to take away Tyler's privilege of playing college football over a silly drunken mini-rant about the former player that literally took away his right to play for a championship in his senior year? While I never attended USC, they always stayed close to my heart because they are just right there where I grew up virtually. I used to live virtually around the corner. Today, however, I'm one step closer to just giving them up along with all college sports all together.