This is real. This was printed in the DMN Sunday Sports Day. It's obviously from some clueless Sooner. Here is how it reads:
Watch out, that one dude from the Granger thread on here a while back will be here soon to tell you how awful it would be to be cold and too poor to be able to afford a coat.
Having a friend who was at Texas and now LSU, I can testify that players and coaches get mountains of clothing at major universities. Shirts, sweatshirts, jackets, coats, windsuits, shoes, hats, you name it. Granger stole the coat because he liked it, not because he needed it.
The writer is a graduate of TCU. He's President and CEO of a company that helps "student-athletes find the best opportunities at the collegiate level." The Link
The entire State of Oklahoma is convinced that the NCAA keeping its athletes from being criminals, even remotely, is......criminal. This surprises me not at all.
...because Glendale Arizona is known for its wonderful selection of winter coats... ------------------------------------------------------------------- LOL!!!
If it's the same guy then yeah I've heard him on the radio before, usually trying to plug his service or whatever it is. Not sure if he is affiliated with one school or another.
I read it in my print copy of the paper this morning, and my mouth dropped open. I considered writing a response to it, but then decided that anyone who really felt that way could not be persuaded by mere logic anyway. HornHuskerDad
What a poor soul. I bet they caught him sneaking that coat out under a much smaller coat given to him by ou. If only ou could afford to give players bigger coats so their players could never get caught shoplifting coats from Burlington Coat Factory. Everyone needs to ban together to force the NCAA to pay for anything athletes want so they don't feel the urge to steal or do anything unlawful. Hookers, drugs, and Burlington Coats for all! Can you imagine telling people you were arrested for shoplifting...at Burlington Coat Factory. Try ever living that down.
They've used that and other gomer logic as an excuse to cheat for decades now. They will never get it. A death penalty for that pathetic program might wake them up. That's the ONLY thing that will.
I get so tired of hearing how those athletes on scholarship are so friggin poor. There is nothing which says they have to go to college and play football. They could go to work instead of going to college. Or, they could go to college, get a part-time job and take out student loans and be able to live comfortably, but not play sports. No body forces them to play college sports. If it is too tough financially don't do it.
Interesting service (as such) this guy runs. Anyone have any insight as to how successful it is? One has to wonder if the guy is simply trolling for business by writing stuff like this in print.
How bad can the letter be when it doesn't even mention the Trilateral Commission or Ron Paul? To say nothing of a desperate Nigerian prince trying to get his hard-earned money out of the country?
It is crazy the amount of clothes athletes receive from their schools. Perhaps Granger should have saved up his stipend to buy that coat.
OU has an entire department educating students in how to write apologies for athletes' misdeeds, and is nationally renowned for their success in creative excuse formulation.
If only Bomar and Quinn hadn't exposed Big Red Sports and Imports... Then OU's players would all have hard-working, honest paying jobs.
thug? this guy ain't a thug, thugs whack old ladies in the head and break kneecaps of deadbeats, this guy dosen't deserve the exalted thug status, he's more a little jr-high school girl shoplifter for thrills type, a gayasspunk weenie type.
He is implying parent's cannot buy their son a coat too. I am sure Mrs. Granger would and could get her son a coat if he need it. Like y'all said, they have access to team parkas and I doubt there were really cool coats at the Burlington Coat Factory in Glendale. The man should be embarrassed his letter to the editor appeared in print.