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SUPPORTING EDUCATION THROUGH ATHLETICS
Page 14 • The Battalion
OPINION
Thursday • December 1, 1994 iort
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Cotton Bowl '95 fans
should 'thank' NCAA
Texans should be giving a
Texas-size “thank you” to the
NCAA for making possible a
1995 Cotton Bowl with a South
west Conference host who is
barely rated in the top 25 and
has the awful record of 6-5-0!
That’s right! Thanks, NCAA,
for punishing the innocent,
while letting the guilty get only
a kind of “slap on the hands.”
The 1994 Texas A&M foot
ball team members have not
broken the NCAA rules, yet the
NCAA, the Southwest Confer
ence, and the administration of
Texas A&M made an agree
ment that these innocent A&M
athletes are ineligible to be con
ference champions or confer
ence representatives at the
1994 Cotton Bowl — even with a
10-0-1 record!
Shouldn’t those guilty of vio
lating NCAA rules be punished,
not those who have not violated
the NCAA rules?
I haven’t heard any indigna
tion, any protests, any dissatis
faction with this situation of
the innocent being punished for
the guilty! Why are the admin
istrations of member schools of
the NCAA accepting this habit
of punishing the innocent?
Why do the coaches of NCAA
athletes accept this habit of
punishing the innocent? Why
do alumni associations of
NCAA schools accept this habit
of punishing the innocent?
Why do sportswriters who re
port even the trivial sports in
formation accept this habit of
punishing the innocent?
OOPS! I’m in error for
thanking only the NCAA for a
mediocre 1995 Cotton Bowl
match-up! I expand my “thank
you” for a mediocre 1995 Cotton
Bowl match-up to the adminis
trations of the member univer
sities of the NCAA, the coaches
of college athletes, the alumni
associations of NCAA member
schools, and the sportswriters!
All of these groups have and
are silently agreeing that the
innocent shall be punished for
the guilty in college athletics.
After all, these groups re
ceiving my “thanks” are lacking
in both economic and political
power to change this unfair,
un-American, and unjust sys
tem!
(Or is it more accurate to
conclude that they lack the in
tegrity to right an obvious
wrong?)
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