The NCAA and the University of Tennessee reminded us Friday what good, old-fashioned wrongdoing in college football looks like. Found to have committed hundreds of violations under former coach Jeremy Pruitt, the Volunteers were put on probation for five years and now face a hefty reduction in scholarships and other recruiting penalties, will have a whole mess of wins vacated from the record books and are on the business end of more than$8 million in fines. Good ol’ Rocky Top. God bless the SEC.
But just because there’s a new scandal in college athletics — isn’t there always? — don’t mistake that as meaning Northwestern has been relieved of its prominent position in the current news cycle. The long road from the Evanston lakefront to the end of this sordid mess is only beginning.
