So, does anyone know of anything interesting that happened last week?
The internet was set afire with a five-part series from Sports Illustrated written by George Dohrmann and Thayer Evans. I thought that today I'd write a little bit about the reactions to it. I want to be clear here that I have no interest in defending SI's story. Even if every single allegation in the story is true, I don't really care. The NCAA's rules are dumb, and dinging OSU for breaking dumb rules strikes me as a waste of time, except to the extent that it gives me ammunition to needle my OSU fan friends.
Unfortunately for Sports Illustrated, their series was pretty sloppy, and most bafflingly they devoted half of what has been published so far to marijuana use and sex, both of which strike me more as telltale signs of everyday college life than of an out-of control football program.
Conceding that the SI report was really weak, though, I also didn't think the local media totally covered themselves in glory.
Before the story even dropped -- before we had any idea what would be in it -- KFOR, for instance, was already circling the wagons. Here's Channel 4's long-time news anchor Linda Cavanaugh: