Andy Staples prove my point

Over at Inside College Football, Andy Staples demonstrates my point.  OSU deserved to win because now it's as morally corrupt as any SEC team.  Yeah, because again what those foolish freshmen did should have derailed the entire program's season.  What they did two years ago.  Because a five game suspension just isn't enough for getting tattoos by selling team paraphernalia.   I'm not saying they didn't break rules, or didn't deserve to be punished.  But 'crime'?  As in:

Five players sold memorabilia to a Columbus tattoo artist for cash and ink and got caught. For their crimes against the NCAA, they were suspended five games.

OK, crimes huh?  How about this:

Ohio State also has players who commit NCAA violations. Five of them played Tuesday, and Ohio State wouldn't have won without them.

Not the verbal tense: Who commit.  As if this is an ongoing thing.  As if OSU has players willy-nilly violating NCAA rules on a daily basis, with the team covering for them and making shady deals.  The point is, make this moment of Freshmen foolishness into one of the great scandals in sports history.  That way the focus is off the obvious: OSU beat Arkansas, the Bit Ten beat the SEC. 

By the way, I do thank Mr. Staples for admitting to some moral superiority that apparently OSU enjoyed.  Because until I read his article, I can't recall any fans of the SEC or non-Big Ten teams speaking of such a lofty ethical perch upon which the Big Ten apparently roosted.  It's a little sleight of hand.  It's saying OSU deserved to win only because it made a deal with the devil.  It's Staples saying what most will say: as always, the Big Ten never deserves to win, so when they do, we must deflect attention so that no credit need be given.  It's saying OSU didn't deserve to win while saying it did.  It is, as we've seen over the years, the typical sour sportsmanship that occurs whenever an SEC team loses to anyone.  Congrats OSU, if for no other reason than putting that thorn in the side of the SEC support network.