2013 College Football Season

[BIGmike]

Texas fires Manny Diaz and hires Greg Robinson.

[Cnasty]

Texas fires Manny Diaz and hires Greg Robinson.

Did they really give up 557 yards rushing to BYU?!??!

[BIGmike]

Texas fires Manny Diaz and hires Greg Robinson.

Did they really give up 557 yards rushing to BYU?!??!

The worst part is BYU's QB Hill was like 10/29 passing and is completing like 30% of his passes through 2 games. No shit BYU was going to run.

[Cnasty]

SI reporting that Oklahoma State paid its players for a period from 1999-2011 under Les Miles and Mike Gundy

A very Miami-like lead program with cash, strippers, and drugs being used for payment.

This is going to be awesome.

[Cnasty]

Sports Illustrated announced a five-part investigative series into the Oklahoma State football program on Monday, as the university braces for damaging allegations based on the previously revealed details off the report.

The first of five segments in the series, tabbed "The Dirty Game," will launch Tuesday morning at 9 a.m. ET.

PREVIOUSLY: Oklahoma State 'very concerned' with allegations

All the hype for college football's most anticipated matchup of this season — Saturday's SEC clash between Alabama and Texas A&M — could suddenly take a backseat to the SI series as it spreads out through Friday and concludes Sept. 17.

The series is based off a 10-month investigation that included interviews with more than 60 players who played for the Cowboys between 2001 and 2010, as well as current and former OSU football staffers.

The report reveals allegations that Oklahoma State went to extreme measures to build a winning program following 11 losing seasons in 12 years. Since 2002, the Cowboys have posted 10 consecutive winning seasons.

Oklahoma State athletic director Mike Holder said Monday via the Tulsa World that the allegations left him "very concerned" and that he didn't want to "believe it was true."

The allegations claiming "an increased willingness to cut corners and bend rules" are focused on former coach Les Miles, who was the head coach in Stillwater from 2001 to 2004 before taking over at LSU.

The allegations are also directed at current coach Mike Gundy, who was promoted from offensive coordinator in 2005. Gundy said, in response to the allegations Monday:

"I'll be real honest with you. I know the part that may have involved me. I'm not sure we know it all yet. But we've had tremendous support from administration, from the people behind the scenes who have looked at this and researched it. …I'm going to guess that once we get all the information and we see what's out there, then our administration and the people inside will look at it and we'll see where we made mistakes and we'll try to make ourselves better and we'll correct it and then we'll move forward. And I would hope that there will be some of it that we look at and say I'm not sure one way or the other based on what's out there."
According to the magazine, SI executive editor Jon Wertheim, SI assistant managing editor Hank Hersch and SI.com executive editor B.J. Schecter oversaw the investigative report, which was written and reported by senior writers George Dohrmann and Thayer Evans.

"We wanted to take a comprehensive look at a big-time program, particularly one that made a rapid ascent," says Wertheim. "There's obviously a steady drumbeat of scandal in college sports – improper benefits here; a recruiting violation there – and plenty of rumor and hearsay about the unseemly underbelly. For this piece, we were more about venturing inside the factory and seeing how the sausage is made."
The series, which will be launched on all of SI's platforms, focuses in detail on the following:

- Part 1: Money (On SI.com Tuesday, 9/10 and in the 9/16/13 SI issue): SI finds that OSU used a bonus system orchestrated by an assistant coach whereby players were paid for their performance on the field, with some stars collecting $500 or more per game. In addition, the report finds that OSU boosters and at least two assistant coaches funneled money to players via direct payments and a system of no-show and sham jobs. Some players say they collected more than $10,000 annually in under-the-table payouts.
-Part 2: Academics (On SI.com Wednesday, 9/11): Widespread academic misconduct, which included tutors and other OSU personnel completing coursework for players, and professors giving passing grades for little or no work, all in the interest of keeping top players eligible.
-Part 3: Drugs (On SI.com Thursday, 9/12): OSU tolerated and at times enabled recreational drug use, primarily through a specious counseling program that allowed some players to continue to use drugs while avoiding penalties. The school's drug policy was selectively enforced, with some stars going unpunished despite repeated positive tests.
-Part 4: Sex (On SI.com Friday, 9/13): OSU's hostess program, Orange Pride, figured so prominently in the recruitment of prospects that the group more than tripled in size under Miles. Both Miles and Gundy took the unusual step of personally interviewing candidates. Multiple former players and Orange Pride members say that a small subset of the group had sex with recruits, a violation of NCAA rules.
-Part 5: The Fallout (On SI.com Tuesday, 9/17, and in the 9/23/13 SI issue): SI finds that many players who were no longer useful to the football program were cast aside, returning to worlds they had hoped to escape. Some have been incarcerated, others live on the streets, many have battled drug abuse and a few have attempted suicide.

[shel311]

Don't care what Les did at Okie St, don't care what he's doing at LSU, only care if he gets caught.

[shel311]

Sports Illustrated announced a five-part investigative series into the Oklahoma State football program on Monday, as the university braces for damaging allegations based on the previously revealed details off the report.

[Cnasty]

I'd love to see that douchebag fry

[shel311]

I'd love to see that douchebag fry

You're just mad because for 3 years straight you constantly said he would Cokerize LSU and that didn't happen.

[Cnasty]

Damn right I am!!

[shel311]

I try to stay objective and take the good with alllllll of the bad lol. A championship, 2 SEC titles, 2nd most wins in all of football since he took over, probably the 3rd best program at worst in CFB since he took over. Ya never know what you'll get when you get a new coach so until this success dies down, I'm good with it all.

[ChampDizzle]

Part 4 interests me

[LetsGoPeay]

I read somewhere that when it came to the money that the players got very few bought any extravagances. The article I saw reported that the players said the by and large most of them bought groceries and day to day necessities because that was what they needed.

[Cnasty]

I read somewhere that when it came to the money that the players got very few bought any extravagances. The article I saw reported that the players said the by and large most of them bought groceries and day to day necessities because that was what they needed.

Still "against the rules"

Miami players needed strippers day to day as a necessity but they are cast in a worse light than anyone.

We dont want to hear it!!

[shel311]

Okie St pays players, bit of a news story

Miami does it, media heads call for the deathpenalty and iit's headlining every sports outlet for what felt like a couple of weeks.

Poor Miami.

[autiger730]

So much bad going on in the world of bammer today, on the bear's 100th b-day no less:

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootbal ... eir-poodle

http://blog.al.com/wire/2013/09/bear_vs ... alaba.html

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ncaaf--doc ... 13237.html

[shel311]

That 2nd article about Bear Bryant and 9/11 is so ridiculous. ;lol;

[trendon]

That 2nd article about Bear Bryant and 9/11 is so ridiculous. ;lol;

I just posted on Facebook that the 9/11 thing is over; it has officially jumped the shark.

[LetsGoPeay]

That 2nd article about Bear Bryant and 9/11 is so ridiculous. ;lol;

I just posted on Facebook that the 9/11 thing is over; it has officially jumped the shark.

Obvious jsence trolling attempt.

[trendon]

That 2nd article about Bear Bryant and 9/11 is so ridiculous. ;lol;

I just posted on Facebook that the 9/11 thing is over; it has officially jumped the shark.

Obvious jsence trolling attempt.

Not a clue how you would have gotten to that idea. The only person you could ever accuse me of purposely instigating is Dak.