Cris Carter received substantial criticism recently when a video surfaced from the 2014 NFL Rookie Symposium. The criticism came from Carter telling the rookies that it was advisable to have a "fall guy'' if trouble surfaced and they needed to avoid the consequences.
Too bad Carter wasn't offering this advice at a convention of big-time college coaches. He would have received a standing ovation.
There is a hilarious example of the Fall Guy approach being played out at this moment with coach Rick Pitino and the Louisville men's basketball program. Katina Powell, a woman who books services for sexual escorts, has been involved in a book, "Breaking Cardinal Rules: Basketball and the Escort Queen.''
The book claims that Powell, three of her daughters and other ladies in her employ performed at parties and in more intimate surroundings for Louisville players, recruits and even fathers.
Powell said this took place from 2010 to 2014. And here comes the Fall Guy: Andre McGee, first a graduate assistant and then director of basketball operations (a glorified grad assistant), was doing this without Pitino's knowledge.
So a guy who was making less money than someone who works long hours at a drive-through was peeling off his hard-earned hundreds for hookers, and doing so in the basketball dorm, and there was no one working in security in that building loyal enough to Pitino to say, "There's something going on here, coach.''
Pitino is in the Basketball Hall of Fame, and if Slick Rick gets away with this, he can make the induction speech for McGee at the Fall Guy Hall of Fame.
We have one member in the Fall Guy Hall from Minnesota: Luther Darville, the U of M administrator who was found guilty of theft for the $186,000 he skimmed to assist minority students – including numerous Lou Holtz football players.
