Let's read into the Auburn President's angle

From the "Check Your Drivers License, you are in a state of denial" department (right down the hall from the Computer Science Linux lab), we find these comments on the USAToday today...

"This really isn't an athletic issues; it's an academic issue," Ed Richardson said.

How convenient! He makes some salient points about students other than athletes got the same classes - but don't tell us the esteemed Professor Petee (with Bobbleheads in background) doesn't offer up evidence in this official photo that he is a sports nut! I may think differently if he had Todd MacFarlane Spawn figures on his walls, but if the bobblehead fits...

I am willing to side with the SOC department on one point - what they did was not wrong by the letter of the law, but it certainly violates the spirit of higher education that one book report equals 3 credit hours.

Color me more bitter than Mickey Mantle, but if this is the educational equation these days, I have a serious bone to pick with Mrs. Coppock in third grade for making me fight through Beowulf, or Mrs. Johnson in high school with Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. IT WASN'T EVEN MODERN ENGLISH!

Melt with me if you will - is this truly the blasphemes coming down on athletics, or is this a non-story? Talk amongst yourselves...