{"id":3788,"date":"2011-04-04T13:55:45","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T19:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/\/?p=3788"},"modified":"2011-04-04T13:55:45","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T19:55:45","slug":"twis-is-more-trouble-brewing-for-ncaa-football-powers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/twis-is-more-trouble-brewing-for-ncaa-football-powers\/","title":{"rendered":"T*W*I*S: Is More Trouble Brewing for NCAA Football Powers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Flat-football-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3790\" title=\"Flat football 1\" src=\"\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Flat-football-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"174\" \/><\/a>We may be in for an ugly spring and summer as the underbelly of NCAA football&#8217;s highest level begins to reveal itself in front of us on the Internet and sports outlets nationwide.\u00a0 With the Fiesta Bowl scandal, ex-Auburn football players telling all about alleged pay-for-play schemes and Ohio State head coach Jim Tressel finding yet another knee-deep pothole to step in, there is not much good news to divert our attention.\u00a0 Instead, if\u00a0the trend holds,\u00a0anticipate more\u00a0players, and perhaps even former coaches, stepping forward with details of past under-the-table deals.\u00a0 Some will\u00a0tattle for the\u00a0notoriety and their 15 minutes of fame.\u00a0 Others, presumably wrought with guilt, will insist they had no choice but to participate in the shenanigans.\u00a0 In any case, it all could signal additional program penalties and groundbreaking changes in how recruiting is conducted,\u00a0boosters\u00a0are overseen\u00a0and players&#8217; activities are monitored.\u00a0 It had to come sooner than later as Pandora&#8217;s Box was brimming.\u00a0 The Communication Age with the public&#8217;s news-now mentality is coming at a stiff price for those of us who really only want to watch college kids play the game we dearly love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We may be in for an ugly spring and summer as the underbelly of NCAA football&#8217;s highest level begins to reveal itself in front of us on the Internet and sports outlets nationwide.\u00a0 With the Fiesta Bowl scandal, ex-Auburn football players telling all about alleged pay-for-play schemes and Ohio State head coach Jim Tressel finding &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/twis-is-more-trouble-brewing-for-ncaa-football-powers\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3788"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}