Stop Preparing Your Eulogy and Put Down The Pitchforks

When LeBron James said his famous "Not One.....Not two, Not Three, Not Four, Not Five....etc etc.", maybe he was talking about the NCAA scandals we would have to endure. Through Cam Newton, Ohio State, Penn St, all the way to Johnny's signature story, we are now presented with one more. (If that wasn't enough already). Yahoo! Sports released a report last night that included Former Alabama OL DJ Fluker, along with Former Tennessee QB Tyler Bray, former Mississippi State DL Fletcher Cox, and others of taking improper benefits.

Of course, the most predictable happens. The fan bases of previously punished institutions are now demanding a pound of flesh while the ones in question are now in defense mode. (Except Tennessee who might welcome vacating the Derek Dooley Era).

The difference in this story compared to Cam Newton and Johnny Football is that Yahoo! actually presented a paper trial and documentation. That's much harder to defend compared to circumstantial and "He said, She said".

For all of the Alabama fans who want chastise the reporting (and definitely the ones who wanted to tar and feather Johnny Football over a cameraphone video with no proof of money exchanging), don't start writing your eulogy just yet.

For everyone else who is hoping that this tears down a dynasty years in the making, don't pop open the champagne and put down the pitchforks.

Why do I say this? Despite the documentation being available for all of us to see this online, it's going to be hard for the NCAA to prove.

If we know anything about the NCAA, fhey are very unpredictable.

Also, the NCAA has to prove that if someone in the Alabama staff knew that Luther Davis was giving money from his hustling of agents to DJ Fluker. The same of Tennessee and Mississippi St.

Don't forget that the NCAA has to get people to talk. As we know, it's easier said than done. Reputations and business venture can be tarnished by spilling guts to the NCAA. You also have to factor in laws against agents as well.

I think we can all agree that college football is not clean. We have become numb to these scandals and another surfaces on the brink of 2013's biggest college football game of the year.

My philosophy since Cam Newton is to never proclaim innocence, but if you're going to proclaim guilt, prove it with something other than circumstantial and he said she said. We've heard wolf cried so many times that it can make you cynical and numb to it all.

I at least give Yahoo! credit for presenting evidence that ties money exchanging hands.

However, it's in the hands of the NCAA. If you were to bet what might be the outcome in Vegas, you might be better off using that money for something else. Like I've said before, it's unpredictable. So stop writing your eulogy and put down the pitchforks.