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leveymg

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3. Can you imagine a better way to keep control over an athletic program?
Sun Jan 29, 2012, 11:18 AM
Jan 2012

Having this live time-bomb on staff for all those years - what better way to maintain discipline. It's called blackmail that simply became the way things work. Everyone gets rich, nobody goes to jail, so long as everyone keeps their traps shut. What, you think college sports is just about marching bands and cheerleaders?

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