C'mon, it's not like they signed with an agent

The Auburn University sociology professor who told The New York Times about the numerous football players who took, from the department chairman, several classes "that required no attendance and minimal academic work" said Sunday that he won't cooperate with an internal probe of the matter. He will, however, speak his mind to detractors who complain that he drew NCAA attention to the Plains: "All these people are sending me hate mail, and I might have prevented the damned problem."

In an enlightening post, Unlocked Wordhoard crunches some relevant numbers in the Auburn scandal. And in other news, this sort of thing still isn't entertaining. Not even a little bit.