Congress getting in on the basketball investigations

KU launches an internal invesigation

and.here.we.go


there has never in the history of internall investigatons has there never not been shite there. this is how that conversation goes


ku ad: "we're good right"


self: ......

KU Ad: "right?"


self: .............

KU Ad: "frick"

Just what this situation needs. the damned government!!!!... if there is an organization more inept and bureaucratic than the NCAA its the damned federal government....ain't this going in the shitter fast

I think the frame that sports writers have put on this regarding the NCAA is wishful thinking. The NCAA doesn't have the power to control all of this. It's not a law enforcement body and as a regulatory body it's powers are extremely weak when it comes to anything proactive -- basically they have no proactive powers, only after the fact powers and even those are limited as hell (I mean they basically have to take what's handed to them and rely on people talking - they can't even subpoena).

As much as folks want to blame the NCAA, they don't want to give them the powers to actually police this on a scale that would have to happen and even if NCAA powers were expanded, they'd have no authority of the AAU circuit and the apparel makers that have corrupted basketball so much. If the Feds, congress, or anyone else want college basketball cleaned up to an acceptable level it starts by taking aim at AAU and the apparel makers and that's an area where the NCAA has zero authority.

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Hot damn! It'll get fixed now, for sure.

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Absolutely. It's about time that Cong...wait, that was 'sarcasm', wasn't it? My momma warned me about sarcasm when I was just a youngster. Said it starts out with sarcasm, which leads to 'irony', which leads to unreconstructed Yankeeism. You almost got me there. Nice try, but I'm wise to you now.

Oh thank goodness. Congress is here to solve the problem! They are so good at getting things done.

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He is a hog fan dipshit

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I don't keep up with all of you, he has the wrong team by his name and I went with it, when you get a life you will not know who everyone's team is, dumbass.

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As much as folks want to blame the NCAA, they don't want to give them the powers to actually police this on a scale that would have to happen and even if NCAA powers were expanded, they'd have no authority of the AAU circuit and the apparel makers that have corrupted basketball so much. If the Feds, congress, or anyone else want college basketball cleaned up to an acceptable level it starts by taking aim at AAU and the apparel makers and that's an area where the NCAA has zero authority.

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All true, though they can take aim at the universities as beneficiaries. The universities are vital stepping stones for any player who wants to maintain a public profile pending the draft, after all, at least as long the one-and-done rule exists. In essence, they can blackball the recruits and players themselves. Less cooperation from the recruits makes it more difficult for AAU and the apparel makers since these players are both the linchpin and the raison d'etre of the system itself. At least in theory. In practice, they'll all just start being more careful in how they operate.

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Cormac McCarthy, James Agee, Harper Lee, Truman Capote, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Conner, Tennessee Williams, Eudora Welty, Mark Twain, and countless other Southern writers would strongly disagree with your momma about irony.

To be Southern is at its very core to be steeped in irony.

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My momma didn't read any of those. She loved Lewis Grizzard. I've never read him, so I don't know what his humor is like.

I did just re-read 'As I Lay Dying' a couple weeks back. It's easier than 'The Sound and the Fury' (if not by much) and still sounds impressive when hitting up girls at the cotillion.

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My momma didn't read any of those. She loved Lewis Grizzard. I've never read him, so I don't know what his humor is like.

I did just re-read 'As I Lay Dying' a couple weeks back. It's easier than 'The Sound and the Fury' (if not by much) and still sounds impressive when hitting up girls at the cotillion.

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"As I Lay Dying" is one of my favorite novels. I read it in high school on the recommendation of an English teacher who knew I liked Faulkner. (Yeah I know how nerdy is liking Faulkner that young - I mean adults fake read him ). I was so taken with how the story was told that I wrote "My mother is a fish" on the sides of my kick arse Chuck Taylors. "Sound and the Fury" is great but I'd also recommend "Absalom, Absalom!" as Quentin's struggle with what it is to be southern stands to this day as the perfect illustration of what southerners of conscience and intellect struggle with.

My step-dad loved Lewis Grizzard and had a ton of his comedy tapes and as a kid we'd listen to them on long trips. I found his humor hilarious as a child but today I find it chauvinistic (in the classical sense where the word refers to regional prejudice or overzealous nationalism - seriously everyone should google the word because it's so associated with 'male chauvinism' that the true meaning has been lost.)

That's not to say Grizzard is without merit. In columns and in his standup he had some wonderful insights. He's just problematic because in many ways he promoted some of the very things southerners need to shed in order to get on with our lives and improve the standing of so many things within our states.