Oklahoma St. Football: Busted

Oklahoma St. Football: Busted

   This past week revealed much about dastardly goings on inside the rising college football program at Oklahoma State University. The Cowboys have been on the rise for the recent few years after having spent many years as a basement-dwelling laughingstock of a program as its in-state archrival, Oklahoma, never faltered from the top of the college football rankings. Alas, Oklahoma State's rise to the top was not what it seemed. Simply, they were cheating.

   

   Under Coaches Les Miles and then later Mike Gundy, it has been reported that players were given illegal benefits in just about every possible way you could dream of. Money was awarded to players who performed well during games, sometimes in excess of $1,000 for any particular game's performance. Even less important players who were not headed to the NFL and were not directly responsible for the team's success or failure were rewarded with hundreds of dollars handed to them for performances on or off the field. All of money given to these so-called student-atheletes is incomprehensibly illegal. In addition to these players being paid against the rules, they were given academic handicaps that were only available to successful football stars at the college. Even worse was the alleged rampant drug use by the football team. Says ex-star linebacker Donnell Williams, "Drugs were everywhere." Coach Les Miles even went as far as to hire a staff of females to show recruits around the school; the women had sex with many of the recruits allegedly. The school will investigate itself and will figure out the next course of action for their troubled football program.