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Re: Why doesn't everyone fake injuries

Well, I'd hope that maybe we could at least attempt to have some modicum of ethics and integrity being coached. I realize in the shuffle of all the money going around (particularly in a place like Eugene), nobody seems to care about a single thing besides the playoff and "winning at all costs".

Call me old fashioned (happy to accept that), but these are still mostly all just student athletes, most of whom won't ever sniff a pro football career and it'd be nice if we could not "gameplan to cheat". What are we teaching kids when that's an acceptable part of "the plan"?

That's mostly a rhetorical question and the answers aren't positive.

I'm very happy that many, if not most, coaching staffs still have some integrity and care for instilling some correct values -- none of which involve cheating.

As an aside -- if I were Oregon, I'd can Lupoi. That guy is a POS, a cheater and frankly not a good DC either. Surely they can find a better person for that role.

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John - given the PAC12 turmoil I thought you’d find this excerpt from Bruce Jenkins SF Chronicle column today of interest……..

These are depressing times for the Cal and Stanford football teams. Even worse than the won-lost records is an unavoidably bleak future with football-obsessed rivals gaining a massive edge in high-profile player transfers and lavish NIL deals. That’s just not how the Bay Area schools operate, which brings to mind a suggestion from Gary Cavalli, now retired after a long career in the Stanford athletic department. “I would consider forming a league of programs that still value academics,” he wrote on his Inside Track blog, “perhaps including the likes of Stanford, Cal, Northwestern, Rice, Vanderbilt, Boston College, Syracuse, Duke, Virginia, Tulane, Army, Navy, Air Force, and others who feel that the current descent into professionalism has gotten out of hand. Rather than try to keep up with the Joneses, why not form a league that actually stands for something? A league that gives priority to education. Whose players fill out the same applications and meet the same admissions standards as the rest of the campus. Whose players actually go to class. A league where ‘student-athlete’ would actually mean something. Andrew Luck might call it ‘The Nerd League.’”

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