So can we all agree that there’s not much that’s “amateur” about big-time college football and mens’ basketball? Can we agree that if Pitino gets to keep his shoe-contract money and gets paid for speeches, it would be OK to set up an escrow account for the likes of Brohm and Bush?

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Lofton doesn’t fit any label, but make no mistake: He makes U of L’s Rick Pitino and UK’s Tubby Smith turn orange whenever they see him ring up another 20-point-plus game.

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The voice of reason (Dr. King) and the voice of revolution (Ali) burst into the national consciousness more or less together in 1963.

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Brohm learned much from Petrino about offensive football. Unfortunately, Petrino learned nothing from Brohm about values

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In those days, however, the polls stopped after the regular season. The bowl games didn’t count. So Oklahoma claims a national title that really belongs to Kentucky.

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The hell with trying to teach ethics and values to students who are struggling to pay the rising cost of tuition while the same university is throwing obscene amounts of money at coaches — mere coaches, not world-class researchers or professors. How can students not become cynical?

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The gap between Notre Dame and its football peers is only going to grow wider unless the Irish do something on the academic side. You can bet that Saban will be free to recruit anybody at Alabama

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Next thing you know, UK president Lee Todd and U of L president Jim Ramsey will be locking arms and singing “Kumbaya” before the General Assembly.

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