re: Gurley Eligible for Auburn

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By recruiting top athletes, you bring these risks into play, but also get to win games.

By not recruiting top athletes, you just lose. Good news is you don't have NCAA problems because your players aren't worth paying.

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Quite true. Like most decisions there are trade-offs and unknowns.

1. Status quo. You keep recruiting the best athletes you can attract regardless of background and perceived attitudes and roll the dice on how much they contribute before they are caught in rule violations.

2. Like other universities you do a better job of covering up the violations realizing that the legal world is changing relative to college football. In other words you rationalize your integrity.

3. You do a better job of filtering athletes recognizing that you will be forgoing some of the elites because they will likely be rule violators. And yes, this means that the top end potential for future teams will likely be less but your integrity remains in tact. Hopefully this would attract student athletes who actually care about our university and their education over their professional football potential. This option is probably consistent with the trend at UGA towards increasing our academic status and in handling incidents by the book.