Write the intro paragraph

[gravedigger]

To rosebowl's book:

The year is 2007. A 10 year old from Brookhaven goes outside to play with his friends as the school year winds to an end. Meanwhile in Wayne county.........

[Todd4State]

One day I was going to a 7 on 7 tournament and Megadeath was playing on the radio.

[DancingRabbit]

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. During the December recruiting dead period a new word began to circulate from Oxford - Recruitapalooza.

[ScoobaDawg]

So on the friday show he said this appeals event was what he was waiting on for the last chapter.
Why would he not wait to write about the final verdict that should be coming in a couple months and the fallout from that.
If nothing else... wait till the NOA's are released you fought so hard on so you can get the names that rightfully deserve to be trashed.

[DancingRabbit]

So on the friday show he said this appeals event was what he was waiting on for the last chapter.
Why would he not wait to write about the final verdict that should be coming in a couple months and the fallout from that.
If nothing else... wait till the NOA's are released you fought so hard on so you can get the names that rightfully deserve to be trashed.

That will have to be in the next book. They won't stop cheating long enough for him to wrap up the book.

[Todd4State]

So on the friday show he said this appeals event was what he was waiting on for the last chapter.
Why would he not wait to write about the final verdict that should be coming in a couple months and the fallout from that.
If nothing else... wait till the NOA's are released you fought so hard on so you can get the names that rightfully deserve to be trashed.

I guess he was concerned about possibly being sued for slander I guess. If it's something available to the public and something that they can't cover up then I think that goes out the window.

[Bully13]

That will have to be in the next book. They won't stop cheating long enough for him to wrap up the book.

Nice.

[oldjoedawg]

So on the friday show he said this appeals event was what he was waiting on for the last chapter.
Why would he not wait to write about the final verdict that should be coming in a couple months and the fallout from that.
If nothing else... wait till the NOA's are released you fought so hard on so you can get the names that rightfully deserve to be trashed.

He has not wrapped up the book at all....he plans to have the names of the disassociated boosters in hand and if tsun should somehow fail to reveal them, he will include them in the book. As I see it, the book is not about the penalties arrived at by the COI, but is about the culture of corruption that exists in tsun recruiting and a large part of it will deal with why no other media source really wanted to cover the story from the get-go. Had he not pushed and pushed, hardly any details would be known. The penalties levied by the NCAA will be well-known when the final report comes out....what SR is writing about would not have been known.....

[Turfdawg67]

See below...

[Turfdawg67]

To rosebowl's book:

The year is 2007. A 10 year old from Brookhaven goes outside to play with his friends as the school year winds to an end. Meanwhile in Wayne county.........
... a guy, possibly an Ole Miss booster, is telling him how great he is on the gridiron and that "grades really don't matter, if you are with us". And "here's a little something that'll help you and your family out until you sign with Ole Miss". "There will be a lot more where that came from too... if you stay loyal to us."

[Bothrops]

One day I was going to a 7 on 7 tournament and Megadeath was playing on the radio.

Dude..it's Megadeth \m/

[BeardoMSU]

I'll provide a haiku for inside the front cover....


Oxford was burning,
and a Beaver's teeth gnashing...
God said: it. is. done.

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[gravedigger]

He has not wrapped up the book at all....he plans to have the names of the disassociated boosters in hand and if tsun should somehow fail to reveal them, he will include them in the book. As I see it, the book is not about the penalties arrived at by the COI, but is about the culture of corruption that exists in tsun recruiting and a large part of it will deal with why no other media source really wanted to cover the story from the get-go. Had he not pushed and pushed, hardly any details would be known. The penalties levied by the NCAA will be well-known when the final report comes out....what SR is writing about would not have been known.....

Somehow I believe that om's antics are just fuel for the fire. What seemed to set Steve off in the beginning was the almost willfull hands off policy a certain state newspaper was taking in the face of such a serious story. He tried to get them to accept responsibility to report an obvious slam dunk story. I don't think he expected anything so ridiculous as a sports editor stalking an investigator or an overly zealous message board reader seducing the same investigator. Heck, that never happens*** He just wanted some equitable reporting. What we all have known all our lives in this state is what he wants
out in public. The idea that A tax funded organization can use Public funds to circumvent laws, ethics and manipulate the largest news organization in the state. He's exposing the audacity of this states network and the shamefullness that it continues to be. Just so happens a college football team and its staff are the actors in the play.


Steve would have written the book with or without the names.

[nsvltndog]

There are some famous Faulkner quotes that are almost too good and ironic to not include. To borrow from the SEC commercial, it is the Sound.....

"Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed."

And the Fury.....

"A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and well doing and even sometimes for evil. But he won't fail to see a chance to meddle."

First quote is our impression of the author and 2nd quote is how the Bears feel about him, Rosebowl the Meddler.

And of course...."The past is never past. It's not even dead." Is a good literary depiction that many don't think they are even capable of reforming their recruiting practices.

The real Fury resides in Indianapolis.

[Drugs Delaney]

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. During the December recruiting dead period a new word began to circulate from Oxford - Recruitapalooza.
Now that's a good one!

[JDog13]

Was the dark of the moon the week of the fifth of June
In a Cannon loaner flippin' dawgs
Mask-over Laremy with a reefer bong
And a Barney burnin' logs
We is headin' for AJ on H-eight-two
'Bout a mile outta Starky Town
I says, "Papa Archie, this here's the Beaver."
"And the NCAA's about to put the hammer down."