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NFL says Colts' decision on Tressel 'appropriate'Podcast: Looking at the Tressel suspension And it's my reason for hope, because Goodell is the only person alive with the power and moxie to make a dent in the spreading scum of college football. The NCAA has the power, but not the Premier Donovan McNabb Jersey moxie. The NCAA could make a dent in the scum if it would hand down appropriate penalties. Accept improper benefits, college football player? That's a minimum of one year, gone. Not a redshirt year, either, but a year of eligibility. Lie to the NCAA, Bruce Pearl? Cover up violations, Jim Tressel? That's a lifetime suspension. An individual NCAA death penalty, just for you. The NCAA doesn't have the backbone to do what it Premier Donovan McNabb Jersey Purple was empowered by its schools to do -- but Goodell does. He has so much backbone, it's popping out of his skin like a dorsal fin. This guy is a great white shark, and the scum in Authentic Donovan McNabb Jersey college football would scatter like a school of tuna if he would make a habit of doing what he did to Terrelle Pryor. That's the suspension that triggered this idea. Then came the Tressel suspension, but that one had to come. After what Goodell did to Pryor, he -- or someone -- had to suspend Tressel as well. Those guys cheated together and were kicked out of Ohio State together. Had Tressel been allowed to watch TV for the Colts from the first Reebok Donovan McNabb Jersey game of the season, Pryor would have appealed his suspension, and he likely would have won. But because Tressel was suspended, Pryor has accepted his suspension -- unwittingly giving Goodell the ammo to do it again. And again. And again. It's all about the precedent, people, and the NFL players union is letting Goodell set a big one. Goodell has established his power and his right to suspend wayward college football players who enter his league. On the surface, that's not how it looks to gullible people. Don't be them, OK? Goodell didn't suspend Pryor because he tried to circumvent the NFL Replica Donovan McNabb Jersey Draft, because Pryor wasn't trying to circumvent squat. He was returning to Ohio State for his senior season until the Buckeyes disassociated him from the program for five years. As a draft-eligible junior who faced a year on the sideline as the most notorious transfer in years, Pryor had no real choice but to enter the NFL's supplemental draft. The regular NFL Draft was in April. Pryor was kicked out of school in July. The supplemental draft was in August. That's the timeline. So don't believe the fiction that Goodell suspended Pryor for five games for any reason other than this one: The NCAA suspended Pryor for five games, and he never had the chance to serve that suspension -- and Goodell wasn't about to let a player who was too dirty for the NCAA to soil the image of a league Goodell NFL Donovan McNabb Jersey has been trying to clean up, one suspension at a time. So the question is this: How far does this precedent go? Obviously Goodell feels empowered to suspended players and coaches who were penalized in college but left for the NFL before serving that sentence. That's the case with Pryor Vikings Bernard Berrian Jersey and Tressel. But going forward, what about the case of DeVier Posey? What about the case of the next Reggie Bush? Posey is a future NFL receiver from Ohio State who is serving a five-game suspension for the same scandal that claimed Pryor and Tressel. Posey is doing his time, so when he gets to the NFL in 2012, would he face an additional suspension from Goodell? Probably not, no. Bush is the former Southern California tailback whose transgressions wiped out official recognition of the school's national championship and his own Heisman Trophy. Those transgressions came to light well into Bush's NFL career, but he never served an NCAA suspension. He lost his Heisman, but a player will come along whose college cheating was so bad that it costs his school dearly while the player in question -- without a Heisman to vacate -- skates along in the NFL. In that scenario, would the player face an NFL suspension, years after the fact, from Goodell? Probably not, no. But this is where I come in. And you. Let's make it clear to Goodell that we love Donovan McNabb Jersey Purple college football enough to support him in what would be an unpopular fight. Opposition to Goodell's ever-growing punitive side is mounting as we speak, Authentic Donovan McNabb Jersey Purple but it's nave opposition. Legalistic. Shortsighted. The truth is, college football needs Roger Goodell. College players need to know -- players good enough to play in the NFL some day, players good enough to be tempted to break the rules while in school -- that their cheating now will cost them dearly down the road. A suspension of a few games in college doesn't mean a thing to these kids. Obviously -- look at the scum. It's everywhere, because the threat of NCAA punishment isn't enough of a deterrent. But what about NFL punishment? What about the threat that, if you cheat in college, the NFL will make you pay? Missing three games for Ohio State is nothing. How Bernard Berrian Jersey Free Shipping about three game checks in the NFL? That would terrify players, and from the NFL perspective it would be a smart move, if you actually think about it. College football is the NFL's feeder system. That's not how any of this was set up, but that's how it is. The NFL benefits from college football, where a player like Official Donovan McNabb Jersey Tim Tebow or Cam Newton becomes a brand name -- and his NFL team capitalizes on that brand recognition. Tickets are sold. Jerseys. Money is made. The NFL needs college football to thrive. College football needs the NFL to help keep it respectable. Do your thing, Roger Goodell. Mr. Clean is college football's last hope.
(Eds: With AP Photos.)By ANDREW SELIGMANAP Sports WriterLAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) - Matt Forte hoped to have a contract extension. Instead, he's still waiting for his big payday.The Bears running back said Wednesday he's "disappointed" Reebok Chris Cook Jersey he wasn't able to get an extension from Chicago, and with talks shelved Official Chris Cook Jersey for now, it seems unlikely he'll get one anytime soon.Instead, there's a good chance he'll play out Vikings Brett Favre Jersey the fourth and final year of his rookie contract after failing to reach an agreement, something he hoped would get done before the opener this week against Atlanta."Yeah, it's a little surprising," he said. "I'm disappointed that it wasn't. Like I said, coming into the league, you feel like this is supposed to be production-based. And when you produce in the offense, you expect the team or the organization to actually notice that compared to other guys. We just couldn't meet in the middle."He also disputed the notion that both sides had agreed to table the talks, saying he's still open to negotiating.That goes against what general manager Jerry Angelo said earlier in the week, when he told WBBM-AM in Chicago that the decision was mutual, although he wasn't completely slamming the door on the possibility of reaching an agreement by the end of the season."He said that? I didn't say that, so I guess it wasn't mutual," Forte said. "But that was his decision. I can't really decide if we continue to talk or not. He's the one we talk to. The door's always open on my end."Forte wasn't the only high-profile Bears player seeking a new deal.Pro Bowl linebacker Lance Briggs has said Vikings Jersey Shop Online he wants to be traded if the organization won't renegotiate his six-year, 36 million contract, and with three seasons left, management clearly is not budging.Forte's situation is different, though.If they don't agree to a deal before the end of the season, he could test the market. The Bears could also slap him with the franchise-player tag.Fifth in the NFL with 4,731 yards from NFL Chris Cook Jersey scrimmage since he entered the league, he had considered holding out at the start of training camp but decided against it. He was reportedly offered a deal that guaranteed about 13 million or 14 million, but he could be looking for something closer to the five-year, 43 million contract with 21 million guaranteed that Carolina gave DeAngelo Williams."I'm not going to get into the specifics about it," he said. "It's just (that) we couldn't meet in the middle."Forte has "no regrets" about showing up for camp on time rather than holding out."I handle it like I always do," he said. "I'm a professional. This is the National Football League, and that's what I was going to do Personalized Minnesota Vikings Jersey - come in and be professional about it, which is come into camp, work hard every day, get ready for the season. Replica Chris Cook Jersey It's unfortunate that the contract situation, I did not get a contract extension, but I have no regrets about what I've done."Quarterback Jay Cutler expects nothing less from Forte than to handle the situation professionally."He handles himself well," Cutler said. "He knows what it's all about. At the end of the day, he goes out and has a great year, he's going to get probably more money than he was going to get before."Forte is coming off a Customized Vikings Jersey solid season in which Authentic Chris Cook Jersey he joined Walter Payton as the only Bears players to finish with at least 1,000 yards rushing and 500 receiving.He ran for 1,069, averaging a career-high 4.5 per Authentic Chris Cook Jersey Purple carry, and tied for the team lead with 51 receptions for 547 yards, but he plays a high-risk position.There's a reason running backs generally have shorter shelf lives, and an injury this season would make any team think twice about giving Forte a Authentic Minnesota Vikings Jersey big deal.So it's easy to see why he doesn't want to wait even if he said this about the risk Chris Cook Jersey Purple of going down: "You can't go out there worried about that."It's also not hard to see why the Bears Premier Chris Cook Jersey were at least willing to listen, given the way he has performed for them and that his price could go up if Brett Favre Jersey Free Shipping he has another good year.Angelo said early in training camp that they were "motivated," that it was their "intent" to get an extension for Forte, but he didn't set any timetables or make any guarantees."I don't think he lied," Forte said. "We tried to get a deal done. It was just, maybe they have a different view of the type of player I am than the type of player that they think I am." Copyright 2011 by STATS LLC and The Associated Press. Any commercial use ordistribution without the express written consent of STATS LLC and TheAssociated Press is strictly prohibited.
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