Update: Oregon LOSES! The disgrace of Oregon in the Rose Bowl.

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Update:

Karma being what it is, the Ducks qwacked up and lost to what was allegedly an inferior Ohio State team, 26-17.



Making it even better was Blount's late fumble that cost any chance of a win. He really COUGED IT!

Serves them right.

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Unfortunately, Oregon will be playing in the Rose Bowl in a couple of hours.

I say unfortunately, because a football program without character and integrity shouldn't be playing anywhere, let alone in the Rose Bowl, and Oregon qualifies on both counts.

Oregon has a player by the name of LeGarrette Blount. Blount is a criminal... a thug... a punk who sucker-punched another player AFTER Oregon managed to lose to Boise State... and he managed to do it on national TV.



If he had an ounce of integrity, HE would have voluntarily left the Oregon Ducks BEFORE Oregon's coaches had the chance to take any action, one way or the other.

Of course, Blount SHOULD have been arrested on the spot; tried, convicted and sentenced to prison for his assault. You know, like any of US would be if any of US had just walked up to someone and smacked them in the face.

But no, the Ducks took a course of scamming some fake punishment for this guy... as if it came close to fitting the crime.

And now, this scum is going to play in the Rose Bowl.

Those running the program at Oregon who allowed this should be fired; the school administration that allowed this should be fired, and the governor who let this go on should be fired.

What is SUPPOSED to be the purpose of college athletics, anyway? Isn't it SUPPOSED to make those who play into better students... better people?

How did allowing an already suspended-once-this-year thug to remain on the team accomplish that? What kind of message did the complete mishandling of this nonsense send?

Where is all this concern coming from that to kick this punk off the team and out of school is somehow, as one moron put it,

But you have to wonder what would have become of Blount had he been completely removed from the team. You have to wonder whether he would have stayed in school, whether he would have graduated, how he would have reacted to having his entire life ripped away because of one incident.

Do we wonder that about robbers? How about drug dealers? Murderers? No?

Why not? What's the difference? This is a CRIME, no different than any other.

And his punishment?

Why, he gets to keep his scholarship and play in the Rose Bowl.

The Oregon Ducks are a disgrace and they make me sick.

In a discussion I had with an alum of many years ago who was a 4 year offensive tackle for the Ducks, I asked him about this and he told me "I liked it better when it was just football. It was a better program before any of us heard of big money or Nike. Now, I don't like it so much."

No truer words have ever been spoken, John. And the stench of this will follow this program around for a long, long, time.

It is my earnest hope that Ohio State humiliates Oregon today.

Because Oregon deserves it.
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