The State of the Game: Media Cupability and exploitation

[MichaelHarris]

I love college football, I hate exploitation. Florida quarterback Tim Tebow was injured in Saturday's game against Kentucky, it was a legal hit, not a foul in any way. There is a foul here and it wasn't caused by the players or the rules, this foul is caused by the coaches and the media.

The story of the Tim Tebow hit is already being spun and twisted into something else, coverage of the "real" issue has almost stopped. The story? Why were players with an undisclosed sickness flown on a charter plane, separate from the rest of the team, to a game where they will all participate together on the field? Tim Tebow is a quarterback, you know, the guy in the huddle with the offense, huddles, sort of like the enclosed spaces one finds on an airplane. Secondly, The score after the first quarter was 31-0 Gators, why was Tebow still in the game?

If you saw the story at the time of the hit you saw some in the media question the "segregated" sickness flight. One day after the story changes to the hit itself; and the rule involved, http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/story/12273664 This article never mentions the player was ill at the beginning of the game, this is after all a money-making player. Which is really the issue, money. This player flew on a chartered flight because he was ill, to a televised game. With a substantial lead he continued to play sick and was subsequently injured. This is exploitation. The media has a responsibility to question why this player took the field with some sort of contagious illness that was so serious he flew to the game on a charted flight, separate from his team mates only to end up in a huddle with them. Where is the logic in that? http://bleacherreport.com/articles/262135-tim-tebow-injured-why-was-he-still-in-the-game

These student-athletes are not cattle, they are not disposable. The media should question when they are endangered.

Michael Harris