The Poison Keeps Flowing (T-News' Sr Editor Responds)-

[SUPERCOACH]

It's sad but true in what DeWitt says. Until a governing body, wether it be the NCAA or a state government, steps in with an iron fist and says this has to stop, it's only going to get worse.

There has to be laws and/or enforced rules that applies to, anyone that trys to sell an athelete's skills or an athelete knowingly offering themselves for a price, established and strictly enforced. This would include everyone that offers these gifts and those that accept it, with both to be prosecuted for the same crime.

There are rules and laws, but like all laws/rules you have to catch them and prove it. That's not very easy.

It is when they admit it.

[Marshal Dillon]

I love how the Barners keep yelling that there's no evidence, "just the word of the 4 players." I guess they never heard of Eric Ramsey, and he was one guy. Two or more will definitely hang you.


 

[Jamos]

You can add Terry Bowden to that list.

[McBaman]

Well the Barn is in the SEC West and we are required to play them every year -- aren't we?  The only thing we could do would be to move the game earlier in the year.  At least there wouldn't be so much build-up to it that way.

[LegalAcidity]

Fantastic column.  Thanks for the link.

Here's the way I see it (part of this taken from an earlier post I made over on the other board):

I practically grew up in the shadow of Bryant-Denny stadium; I parked cars on Saturdays during the fall for many a year in my Grandmother's front yard (and sometimes the vacant lot around the corner). One of my earliest memories is of the sound of the crowd barely three blocks away, and the voice of the PA announcer wafting through the air, commingling with the leaves of autumn on the way to my young ears. I can remember riding my bike over to and around the stadium. I remember every single solitary smell (both good and bad) that encompassed that walk from my Grandmother's house to the stadium. I can remember the Old Gray Lady and how she creaked and groaned under the tens of thousands of feet stomping before a big play. I remember Coleman Coliseum before it was Coleman. I played basketball in the original Foster Auditorium. I worked several different jobs for the University while in school.

In other words, when I say, "Yeah, I'm an Alabama fan," it just carries so much more weight than a lot of people realize. For me, being a fan of Alabama embodies more than what people may associate with being a regular "fan."

Part of what that embodies is echoed in the history of the University.  Part of it is the respect earned for the entire South by those wins back in the 1920s.  Part of it is the integrity and class exhibited by the teams fielded by Coach Bryant.  Part of it is the fact that, frankly, the University is the state school of Alabama, and not some former agricultural school that used to have "Institute" at the end of its name.  Heck, Auburn's had four names in its history; the University of Alabama has always had and will forever have only one.  The University is even 25 years older (and has been open continuously since its inception in 1831) than that other place.

It is why, as a high school senior, I only applied to one school: The University of Alabama.

It is why, when I made the decision to go back to law school, I only applied to one school: The University of Alabama School of Law.

Being an Alabama fan has less to do with where you went to school and more to do with your experiences, your life, and how that university, that team, those players, and those shouts of joy and cries of agony in defeat are woven into your soul. "IT" is something that I feel to my core; "IT" is the common community present on that campus and in that city.

You either get IT, or you don't. It's that simple.  In my opinion more of us get it than they do.

[Marshal Dillon]

Yea, but they're "Family" and ALL IN.     

[XBAMA]

good stuff Duke ... and right on the money 

[SUPERCOACH]

Great post LA!  I am going to put it on the blog.

[ssmithhhh]

Great post LA!  I am going to put it on the blog.

I have to give props to LA.  Nearly everything he posts is noteworthy.  Known him a long time back from the early TS days. 

He's so articulate, he speaks goodlier than I are.   

[LegalAcidity]

Great post LA!  I am going to put it on the blog.

I have to give props to LA.  Nearly everything he posts is noteworthy.  Known him a long time back from the early TS days. 

He's so articulate, he speaks goodlier than I are.   

I've always felt I have to post with an eye towards being goodlier or your eye will laser a hole through me.   

[SUPERCOACH]

           

[ricky023]

My compliments to you. The brief was excellent. RTR!

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