If I’m Mark Richt, I’m yelling loudly at anybody willing to listen to me. Mark Richt does the right thing (i.e. is upfront and honest with NCAA investigators and sits a kid that is in danger of being ruled ineligible for the NCAA) and while missing his best player for the first four games (three of them conference games) he ends up having the worst season of his tenure and is elevated to hottest of hot seat status with the possibility of being canned for another subpar season in 2011.

Meanwhile, Jim Tressel plays five kids, all of whom contributed heavily to a Big Ten championship and a Sugar Bowl victory, that he has knowledge in April that they’ve committed NCAA violations that would render them ineligible. As such, he has no job secuirty issues whatsoever because he bent the rules to prevent his season from being railroaded by the NCAA/Big Ten.

At this point, what incentive does a coach have to be honest with the NCAA anymore? Bruce Pearl and Jim Tressel got nothing more than wrist slaps from their institutions after learning that major NCAA violations were committed by the respective coaches. The Auburns/Ohio States/Oregons of the world have shown us that in this new NCAA regime, the best option is to deny deny deny, then spin spin spin. I don’t know how guys like Mark Richt who try to do the right thing are expected to “compete” anymore when the system is as broken as it is now. Maybe this is a narrative on society as a whole. It really does bug me to see such “completely unethical” and “morally reprehensible” behavior as the actions of these coaches rewarded. You are also all racist, uneducated, and not true fans. I also did not say you are racist, uneducated, or true fans.