Ohio State Football Allegations

Don't they ever learn?

Five players from the Ohio State football team, QB Terrelle Pryor, RB Dan Herron, WR DeVier Posey, T Mike Adams, and DE Solomon Thomas, were caught receiving improper benefits from a tattoo parlor and its owner.

Seems pretty cut-and-dry doesn't it? Just another case of college players using their names to get a little boost financially. I don't think this tells the entire story though...

First of all, these players were not going to get $250,000 like Cam Newton's dad wanted for him nor is it like Reggie Bush getting a new car and a million dollar house for his parents. At the most these players sold merchandise that cost about $2,500. So realistically they weren't planning to rob someone of an astounding sum of money.

Secondly, the argument has come out that these players were trying to help out their families who have been hurting due to the recession. Some critics would say then that according to that previous statement it would be acceptable to rob a bank to sustain your family. To those mindless clear-cut people I give them a big, "STOP." If you rob a bank other people's lives are in jeopardy and the people being robbed aren't getting anything in return except for a psychologist bill. These guys just sold something in return for something else. If they own something who is to tell them what to do with it?

And last but not least I think the best way to stop these "allegations" from constantly coming out, the easiest, and what I believe the proper thing to do is just pay the players. Arguments against this idea state that "They are students and should not be paid to go to school." I'm going to go ahead and on every non-ignorant person's behalf and call BS on that one. These high level college athletes are not students. I would say 95% of the people on almost any highly ranked football team would not have gotten into that school without football. Students go to college to prepare for their career, whatever it may be. Football players also go to college to prepare for their career, the NFL. The students and the athletes just happen to be at the same institution.  The schools make billions of dollars exploiting the talents of these kids who don't really get anything in return. So why not just pay the athletes over the table rather than under?

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