That rhythmic beep beep beep from the monitor is about to be a single tone. College athletics is flatlining. Here we are again. . . another scandal. It’s like clockwork. As if the academic fraud at North Carolina, the hookers at Louisville, the institutional coverups at Baylor, on and on ad nauseam weren’t enough, Tuesday saw a fresh batch of turds get flung into the fan.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past 48 hours or so, you are well aware of the FBI investigation for bribery and fraud that has expanded to pay-for-play and has landed four people in jail, Louisville Cardinals head coach Rick Pitino and AD Tom Jurich effectively fired, and a vast majority of college basketball fans of any significant program sitting on the edge of their chair wondering when (not if) the next shoe will drop and whether their program will be the one on the receiving end of the thud when it does.