The first day of fall was a few days ago so it’s only right that I return to blogging. So much has happened in my personal life and the world since my last piece. There’s so much I could say that I don’t know where to start but here goes.
I can’t believe what the NCAA is doing to the schools who won football championships in the early 2000s. How can they pay coaches millions of dollars while giving the athletes who fill the stadium hardly anything? Yes they get a free education and 15 minutes of fame but they need money to survive. As a student athlete at the highest level you have no opportunity to make money via summer internships like traditional students, due to pre-season conditioning. Furthermore if a student plans to be a professional athlete their contribution to the school serves as an internship and resume to that chosen career field. I don’t know how much the athletes should be compensated but much like the BCS system immediate changes are needed. It puts these 17 – 22 year old men in such a compromising situation. 
What really got me is the apparent “partnership” between the NCAA and NFL as it relates to Terrelle Pryor. This young man accepted a 5 game suspension to return and play for Ohio State this season but was dismissed from school. As a result he had to enter the NFL supplemental draft, once drafted the league decided to hold him to the suspension. Really? I just don’t get how he can be kicked out of school and still be liable to fulfill that 5 game penalty. Its not like he broke any NFL rules. Even still I would say he appears to be one of the lucky ones he found a nice team in the Raiders, and will get the opportunity to fulfill his NFL aspirations. We all recall how differently things happen to another former Ohio State player Maurice Clarett when faced with a similar situation.
I intended to touch on several topics in this first post but football was so heavily on the brain that I failed to cover anything else so I’ll be sure to make up for it next week.