A little background info for the non-college basketball fan so this makes more sense:
1. Bill Self just got a big raise, so he's now making almost 4 million a year until 2022.
2. I "also" work at KU. Even though it might as well be another planet, theoretically, we're getting paid from the same source.
3. A few ex-KU players are allegedly customers of this giant marijuana ring that was recently busted by the feds.
4. When Tyler Hansbrough's mom worked for UNC, she was allegedly using university funds to do shady things like travel around the country.
The point of posting my own text conversation and counting it as a blog post: this is what it's like to be a college basketball fan right now-- or just any sport, really. Do I talk shit to Fundy about how KU beat UNC in the Elite 8 last year? Or maybe the beat-down from the 2008 Final Four? Does he brag about how UNC stole KU's coach, then won more titles in four years than KU has in the last 20? Nope, we go right for pot-smoking and Hansbrough's mom. Every school has its own scandal somewhere; it's just a matter of when it will come to the surface, and all you can do is hope its nothing too awful. For instance, I will GLADLY take a Johnny Dakota scandal over, say, getting busted paying your players or something. A huge majority of college basketball players smoke weed; to think otherwise is naive. Such is life in the sports world in 2012. Sometimes I miss the innocence of youth. All we had to do then was rock our Starter jacket and blindly love our teams, and we didn't know about the sometimes seedy underbelly of recruiting, jersey chasers, cheating in class, etc. etc. etc. Oh well.
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Get it? Johnny Dakota? GET IT? I don't mean to mistrust you guys, you're usually pretty quick on your feet.....I just really wanted you to get that one.
