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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > The Most Horrific Sexual Abuse in Sports History is Coming to Light
 
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Kalli
Jun 2, 2001

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

It wouldn't destroy sports, but it would destroy a lot of colleges.

Most colleges rely on sports to drive alumni donations and fundraising, to the point that many, many, many schools are functionally just support systems for a sportball team. There are multiple states where the coach of the state university football team is the highest paid state employee -- i.e., higher than the governor, higher than the guy running the nuclear plant, the single highest paid state employee period.

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Kalli
Jun 2, 2001

axeil posted:

Here's how this happens:

I have no idea how to fix it, other than celebrating those who do take the very scary and difficult action of doing the ethical thing.

Look at the David Bliss case for example. Baylor, early in the 2000's had one basketball player murder another. An assistant coach secretly recorded head coach David Bliss plotting to cover up cash payments he had made to the player (an NCAA violation) by painting him as a drug dealer. Bliss ended up eventually getting another head coaching job, while the assistant has been completely black balled and had his life destroyed.

(For those that don't follow sports, this is a very different Baylor case then the mass rape scandal they just went through).

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