The Nittany Turkey

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Well, ain’t THAT interesting?

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The semi-finals have produced an intriguing matchup for the national championship, wouldn’t you say?

As most of us probably expected, Oregon rolled over FSU in the Rose Bowl, 59-20. They would have won even without the Noles’ five turnovers. As a Nole hater, I couldn’t have been more thrilled to see Jameis Winston brought back down to earth, especially that spastic fumble when he was about to be sacked. The 39-point loss is Florida State’s largest since 1983 and the largest ever in a bowl game. [Read more…]

Jameis Won’t Be Charged

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ESPN is reporting that FSU all-everything Heisman candidate super-frosh quarterback Jameis Winston will not be charged with rape for an alleged sexual assault that allegedly occurred an alleged approximate year ago.

I wonder how much money changed hands.

Call me a cynic, but this thing has big bucks written between the lines. I’m not saying that the girl was looking for a payoff. Either Winston is guilty or he isn’t, but this one will never see a courtroom. If he did it and somehow is not being charged, it is a travesty of justice. If he didn’t (i.e., it was consensual, as he said) and the alleged victim was shaking him down, then he learned a lesson about where he puts his dick from now one.

In any case, this paves the way for Winston to complete the season, win the SSMNC, and get his Heisman, not necessarily in that order.

Up to 25 FSU Players Might Be Suspended

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You think JoePa has problems in his twilight years? All those off-field brouhahas this year made it appear as if the reputedly clean program at Penn State had been severely tarnished. Well, Bobby Bowden has bigger problems. The Orlando Sentinel reports that 25 so-called Florida State student athletes might be suspended and prohibited from playing in the December 31 Music City Bowl, where FSU plays Kentucky.

The academic improprieties were unearthed in an expanding investigation of cheating in other sports’ so-called student-athletes. Read the story here.

You know what the Turkey thinks about the student-athlete charade, so I won’t use this space for another harangue on that subject. I’ll just caution you to not ridicule FSU too much for this thing, because this seems to be the way big-time college football is going. So far, Penn State under JoePa has avoided this kind of thing, but for how much longer?

If the NCAA decides that these players were ineligible for this season’s games in which they participated, that august organization could indeed impose forfeits on FSU. The upshot? JoePa would instantly surpass Bowden in total wins.