Actually no, everyone doesn't cheat. It's the "casual" college football fans that have this perception. Collegiate athletics have gone from an image concern, to a full blown image crisis... and posts like yours only prove it.
Alabama has the best compliance department in the country, and Nick Saban has run a squeaky clean program everywhere he's been.
Every program in this country is ONE rogue booster from being labeled "cheaters". That doesn't always equate to the program cheating, they're just the one's that get punished because the system is broken... and nobody has any power over the culprits to punish them.
This situation with Miami, and situations like Butch Davis/John Blake, and situations like Auburn and their BOT's are different because you actually have coaches and regents involved.
I don't believe there's an "innocent" program in the country... anywhere. However, there's a BIG difference between rule bending here and there, and flat out lack of institutional control and blatant cheating.
Hold on now Dr. Slimm. Dont act like Im being naive here. Youre the one being naive if you believe what youre saying. Just because a coach dosent "know" about his players getting paid, does not mean he is running a squeaky clean program or that the school isnt cheating. C'mon man. I hate to tell you this, but,..............GET REAL!
You and I both know that each and every school has boosters responsible for distributing the cash, gifts, and perks to the players. Thats how it works.
What was so disgusting about the case with the U is that some of the coaches and administration were personally involved in the cheating.
What they are supposed to do is the ole turn a blind eye to it. In other words, they know its going on without "knowing" its going on. Its all purposely done behind their backs. Its almost like how a lot of the mafia works.
The coaches go out recruiting and they give the kids and the parents the football program speil.(I dont know how to ****ing spell schpiel or what the **** ever it is) Thats all they are responsible for. Running the program. Later, or even before, is when the people in charge of the financial parts come into play. They will get the offers out to the kids and in a lot of cases the parents.
The coaches know that a big part of whether they get certain kids or not relies on how much money they are offered from what you would like to call these "rouge" boosters compared to how much other schools have offered them. They ****ing know it.
All the coaches do is make sure they dont know who the money is coming from or how the **** it is getting distributed. That way they never have to lie when asked about it. Thats all. Its real simple. This also keeps them from being asked why they didnt do anything about it. Because they didnt ****ing "know". They simply dont want to know. They know its happening and how the system works, but they bury their heads in the sand on purpose. The last thing they want to know is who is paying who and how. They just want to coach the team.
I hate that I used Saban as an example, but its not anything that dosent happen at every major program. Kids from broke families who need money are getting paid. Period. Some of them are straight up to the highest bidder like Cam Newton. Im sure a lot of programs didnt even want to touch him because they felt it would be too dangerous considering the amount his father was asking for and how obvious he was being about it.
So yea, all of them cheat. If you dont want to call a coach a cheater just because he makes sure he never gets any information about whats really going on even though he ****ing knows how **** works, then fine. Youre just twisting words to spin some bogus reality about college football.
But, there is nothing the coaches can do about it. Their hands are tied. First of all, he knows he cant win unless he lets that **** happen and secondly he cant go digging to find out whos getting paid and from where. That would get him fired. No college program would touch him after that either. It would be career suicide. He cant rat out his own school or even attempt to find out where the money is coming from. A guy like that could **** up the whole system. He might get himself killed.
Btw, I totally agree with the last two paragraphs of yours in the post I quoted. Big difference for sure.