In the effluvia of the OJ Mayo report from Outside the Lines (you remember, he took money and gifts from street runner Rodney Guillory, acting as a proxy for the Bill Duffy Agency) the other night, there has been a cacophany of predictable kneejerk reactions from every corner of the media universe.
Tim Floyd and USC are to blame!
The NBA’s 1-and-done rule is to blame!
The NCAA’s lax enforcement is to blame!
AAU basketball, or even worse – the system - is to blame!
There’s a lot of culpability being thrown around by the various pundits, and with good reason on many counts, but [...]