Oregon Duck Football
The saddest part of college athletics is the amount of people who get an opportunity to play sports and have their college tuition completely paid for, who absolutely do not deserve it. Tonight the Ducks lost the first game of the season, no big deal, but sadly after the game the price of producing a consistent college football winner reared its ugly head.
LeGarrette Blount got sort of a shove to the shoulder pad on his way off the field at the end of the game Thursday night when he decided to take the gesture as a cue to lose his mind. As the other player's attention is pulled away by a disciplining coach he is sucker punched in the jaw by Blount. Blount is then corralled off the field only to initiate another altercation with heckling fans in the crowd. At this point four security guards two players and an assistant coach take turns putting Blount into various wrestling moves in an effort to get him off the field before embarrassing himself and the team further.
To me, this is a reality the Ducks have to face. To win every year in college football a program must continue to recruit talent at any cost. For an emerging school like Oregon the path to national power will be littered with junior college transfers who have off the field problems which sometimes become on the field problems. While USC can recruit anyone in the nation, the ducks proved tonight that they might be limited to athletes that major schools just aren't willing to take a chance because of their character.

To LeGarrette Blount,
I hope you went to class during your free ride at Oregon, and maybe if the Ducks are smart and kick you out, you will get a chance to play for another school whose recruiting the athletes that even Oregon can't tolerate.