Another Madison Manufactured Crisis.

Wow. An insta-sports fan.
"Give Me My Football Game, or Give Me ... Further Oppression"

(I bet she doesn't even know how many innings are in a football game. And the Hoosier fella is now a big Packer Backer, it seems. Anything to cheaply dig at President Obama, me thinks ...)

ADDED: Here's a much better read:

By Dave George, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

Oh, are you ever going to be fed up with college football this season.

Not because Nebraska will win the Big Ten title as a first-year member of the league. (Tailgating is the only inviolable tradition remaining in this game.)

Not because Florida Atlantic is denied a spot in a BCS bowl. (Howard Schnellenberger deserves a grand farewell, but there are rules about this stuff.)

Not even because ESPN owns everything. (Only those with the will power and discipline to look away from Thursday night college games have the right to complain.)

No, the reason you will find yourself nearing a nervous breakdown sometime between now and New Year's is the new rule concerning excessive celebration. It was approved last year but debuts in 2011. Simply put, a player can be flagged for taunting opponents on the way to the end zone, just as always, but hereafter it will be a spot foul if the offense occurs while the ball is live.

Somersault or high-step across the goal beginning at the 2-yard line, in other words, and a 15-yard penalty is assessed. Plus the touchdown is taken away. Plus fans come pouring out of the stands with torches and pitchforks. Plus coaches get doused in Gatorade just to keep them from spontaneously combusting.

We're talking about taking points off the board because of matters of decorum. Has the pendulum swung too far here on punishment for silly demonstrations of serious joy? Only by about 10 miles.

Wiping out touchdowns just for ticking off some grumpy zebra, why, it's un-American.

College football will survive this unpleasantness, however. The excessive monitoring of excessive celebration will run its course in a season or two and then vanish forever. The game is just too good to have the enthusiasm ripped out from under it, in part because no expert is expert enough to guess what's coming. ...

and for another, non-manufactured crisis in the sports world, here's Greg Stoda's take on the relatively light suspensions that came down this week in Miami:

"The kids were open and honest (with investigators)," first-year UM coach Al Golden said during an ACC teleconference call Wednesday .

Thus, the specificity of details.

Admissions of guilt is what they seemed to be, and that's why it appears as though the NCAA has the goods to drop a sledgehammer on Miami.

"I don't know what the NCAA garnered," Golden said.

Oh, he probably has a pretty decent idea.

Golden, though, now gets to move on to the extent that he can concentrate on Maryland and the season knowing who's going to be on his roster . Whatever happened wasn't on his watch, anyway, and whatever happens to the 'Canes later might not be either, if Golden chooses to get out.

The wording from Kevin Lennon, vice president of academic and membership affairs for the NCAA, was warning-bells stern in the organization's statement, specifically about allegations regarding UM recruits, which just happened to lead to the harshest penalties (6- and 4-game suspensions) handed out to UM players.

"... our members have continually stressed that involvement of third parties during recruitment will not be tolerated, and there must be accountability for inappropriate behavior," Lennon's statement read.

Also, as Virginia Tech coach Frank Beamer put it during the ACC teleconference, "I think your responsibility is to educate your kids."

UM either didn't do that, at least not sufficiently, or did and was ignored by some players. The NCAA now will turn its focus to a deep investigation of the UM program after having satisfied itself that much of Shapiro's information is legitimate. Basically, the players must have offered confirmation that he wasn't making it all up.

The NCAA was clear Tuesday by stating "student-athlete reinstatement decisions do not signal that an enforcement investigation is complete."

This ain't Newton's Third Law of Motion, in other words, which states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. The 'Canes got off lightly on the reinstatement issue, but shouldn't dare expect equal reaction on the opposite end when it comes to the NCAA's reaction on enforcement.

In fact, it seems as though words written in this space two weeks ago might hold up when the NCAA investigation is complete: "There's plenty of blame to go around in the sewage mess of a scandal at the University of Miami these miserable days, and the adults - coaches, administrators and pathetic boosters of Nevin Shapiro's sycophantic ilk - deserve to bear most of it."

Hold the administration, not the kids, most responsible for what went down on their watch. Knowingly, or not. Makes sense to me.

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