PG/SG O.J. Mayo (Official Thread)

[methomps]

Originally Posted by OCBucksFan

I have mixed feelings on this issue:

On the one hand, if Mayo had been free to go to the NBA out of HS this wouldn't even be an issue. People are going to have to deal with this, the fact is, most schools will do anything for a chance to hang that banner, to get that spotlight, and this "one year" rule only fuels this.

So, who do you blame? Do you blame the NBA? Do you blame the school? do you blame the kid? It's a tough issue, and there's not going to be a lot you can do about it. One year, the kids just have to get along grade wise, and they don't even have to make a full year.

On the other hand... Methomps, just stop. Ok, so this somehow makes Bush innocent? This somehow makes all the speculation towards your football program forgiven? No, this just means that ESPN actually got their own lead and went with it instead of going with the word of someone who they had no contact with. You can't use one mistake to justify another, just like we couldn't do the same thing. Whether you want to accept it or not, there's something dirty going on in your sports program... do I think Pete Carroll has master minded this? No, but I do think your school needs to look at how much contact your boosters have with the athletes, I think your AD needs to start paying more attention to all aspects of your program. I think you need to stop living in denial and accept there may be some issues.

Whoa, I don't know where you got that from. There is page after page in that thread complaining that ESPN is using kid gloves with USC and turning a blind eye to the program's issues. There is even speculation that it is tied to some Disney exec. who went to USC. This recent Mayo investigation reveals all of that talk to be pure bullshit. I never claimed it says one thing either way about the Bush situation itself.

I think someone even said I was living in denial about ESPN's love for USC.

[DaytonBuck]

Originally Posted by methomps

Whoa, I don't know where you got that from. There is page after page in that thread complaining that ESPN is using kid gloves with USC and turning a blind eye to the program's issues. There is even speculation that it is tied to some Disney exec. who went to USC. This recent Mayo investigation reveals all of that talk to be pure bullshit. I never claimed it says one thing either way about the Bush situation itself.

I think someone even said I was living in denial about ESPN's love for USC.

What does Percy Miller have to say about all this?

[OCBucksFan]

Originally Posted by methomps

Whoa, I don't know where you got that from. There is page after page in that thread complaining that ESPN is using kid gloves with USC and turning a blind eye to the program's issues. There is even speculation that it is tied to some Disney exec. who went to USC. This recent Mayo investigation reveals all of that talk to be pure bullshit. I never claimed it says one thing either way about the Bush situation itself.

I think someone even said I was living in denial about ESPN's love for USC.

Aaah, my bad, you were going a different way with that and I took it the wrong way, sorry dude.

['BusNative]

Originally Posted by DaytonBuck

What does Percy Miller have to say bout it bout it all this?

FIFY

[methomps]

The funny thing is that what the NCAA may need to do to preserve its credibility (punish USC) may be at odds with what it needs to do to preserve its integrity. USC investigated Mayo thoroughly before he got on campus. So did the NCAA. USC sent a number of administrators (compliance folks, USC general counsel, and athletics officials) to West Virginia to do due diligence. The NCAA also held a lengthy and involved eligibility hearing on Mayo back in 2007.

If, as is alleged, this has been going on for four years, then the NCAA missed it just as much as USC did. Yet I don't see them sharing our punishment. Both sides did a lot of looking.

While deciding that USC should've done more may please the crowd, it would also be the height of hypocrisy.

[DaytonBuck]

Originally Posted by methomps

The funny thing is that what the NCAA may need to do to preserve its credibility (punish USC) may be at odds with what it needs to do to preserve its integrity. USC investigated Mayo thoroughly before he got on campus. So did the NCAA. USC sent a number of administrators (compliance folks, USC general counsel, and athletics officials) to West Virginia to do due diligence. The NCAA also held a lengthy and involved eligibility hearing on Mayo back in 2007.

If, as is alleged, this has been going on for four years, then the NCAA missed it just as much as USC did. Yet I don't see them sharing our punishment. Both sides did a lot of looking.

While deciding that USC should've done more may please the crowd, it would also be the height of hypocrisy.

Is due diligence being done with Demar Derozan?

[methomps]

Originally Posted by DaytonBuck

Is due diligence being done with Demar Derozan?

I don't know. I don't have the access I did a year ago.