[FULL DISCLOSURE: I am an alumnus of the University of Georgia, but not affiliated with the university in any official capacity. These comments merely represent my personal opinion and nothing more.] I need to vent my frustrations, before my head explodes. I need to express my anger, even though I have no idea how demanding the right thing be done will actually help or accomplish anything, except it might make me feel a little bit better. We can save the argument for another day about whether the NCAA should allow players to be paid. Though I think that players should be allowed to have some sort of income, it's irrelevant to the point that I intend to focus upon today. Likewise, for the time being, we can also ignore that the NCAA earns nearly $1 billion dollars per year in revenue, in spite of the fact the organization is treated as a non-profit by the IRS. Right now I don't even want to bring up the relevance of the Ed O'Bannon court decision to this suspension, even though the ruling would seem to be quite pertinent. It's also helpful and important to note that the NCAA lost that case. However at the moment, I only want to figure out the answer to one question: what is the NCAA going to do about its very serious and growing credibility problem? And what message did Mark Emmert and the NCAA think they sent the college football world by increasing Todd Gurley's suspension from two to four games? I agree with Bill King of the AJC, when he says their message is "honesty doesn't pay." While I believe most Georgia fans are proud of their school, their … [Read more...]