Each week during the off-season we will be doing this feature that will simply be called "This Week In College Football". We will cover the biggest news and stories of the past week and give some opinions and analysis. In addition to covering the weekly happenings we also do a weekly roundtable where we discuss varying topics and we give several opinions on each topic. If you haven't read it yet then check out this weeks roundtable, it's all about the Big Ten. It was a pretty busy news week so let's get started...
HBO Real Sports
Earlier this week Bryant Gumbel and HBO took on college sports as they discussed corruption and the NCAA. Overall, I was very disappointed by the presentation. HBO brought forth four Auburn players who made accusations but never named names and didn't have any proof other than their word. There were no follow-up questions asked (or at least shown). They did a segment with Ed O'Bannon (former UCLA basketball player) about a class-action law suit against the NCAA for using players likeness in video games. If I was HBO and I was trying to make a point then I would have never spoke about the NCAA basketball game. The NCAA basketball game was so profitable for EA Sports that they didn't even put out an edition this year! Seriously, guys get your stuff together. Using the football game here was a no brainer as that's the money maker in terms of this scenario but HBO dropped the ball on that one. HBO also glossed over the two biggest accusations on the program. The first was an Auburn player receiving envelopes of cash from a coach. No coach was named in the accusation. The next was Stanley McClover saying that on his trip to Ohio State he was taken out by players and asked to pick a girl of his choosing. It was said that sex was included in this visit. We all know girls are used by the schools (see also: Lane Kiffin) in different ways but to actually come out an accuse a school of providing a woman to have sex with on a recruiting trip is a bombshell. Too bad HBO didn't bother to follow up on any of this or give us any facts.
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