College sports are sleezy these days because the big time programs are usually filled with blind lemmings who will turn the other cheek to anything wrong as long as they are winning. College football has turned really sleezy because the quality of coaching has gone down over the past 20 years.
I remember reading Bill Walsh talking about the difference in college coaching way back when he first started and then what it was like in the 90's when he went to Stanford. I paraphrasing here, but he said that back early in his career when they would do coaching clinics it was almost extensively about drills, getting players to perfect technique and execution. Now it was all about recruiting and how to be a better recruiter.
And truth be told, on the college level where talent levels can be so different from team to team, even truly great coaches will struggle if they inferior talent.
So you have the blind lemmings kissing these kids' arse and if the coach does whatever it takes to get the recruits, then the lemming will kiss their arse as well. And then the players are now looking for handouts from agents and really don't care about the school, so they become con men themselves. And it just creates one big vacuum of sleeze.
I think the best example of this is Bobby Petrino. It took him *less than 1 season* to become an un-hireable coach in the NFL. He was a joke of a coach and was viewed as having zero character and integrity.
He then goes to Arkansas and within 2 years he's a successful coach that is loved and revered in Arkansas.
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