College sports make me lethargic

Have college sports come to this?\nWhen Dartmouth announced it was going to discontinue its swimming and diving teams due to budgetary reasons, a swimmer's boyfriend came up with quite the creative solution: He put the team up for sale on eBay.\nThe eBay people found out about this and quashed it since the boyfriend was not the rightful owner to begin with. Too bad. What is an Ivy League degree worth today anyway if you can't swim?\nThen came the news of Bill Byrne's resignation as athletics director at Nebraska to take the same job at Texas A&M. Byrne once noted that he only listened to "boosters of substance and influence" when evaluating Nebraska's football staff. Since when did donating a lot of money to a university make one a football expert? By the way, Nebraska fired three defensive coaches this week just before Byrne left, causing wealthy people throughout Nebraska to rejoice.\nByrne also received criticism saying he focused on non-revenue sports too much at the expense of football. Yeah, shame on him for supporting non-revenue sports, as if the fact that the Nebraska football team is the biggest team in the state means they need even more attention.\nSpeaking of Texas A&M, they were so below board with their hiring of new football coach Dennis Franchione that the school's 12th Man booster club registered several Internet domain names including aggiecoachfran.com and aggiecoachfran.net several days before they fired then-coach R.C. Slocum, according to espn.com. That was also when Franchione was still coach at Alabama. As for Franchione, others shouldn't blame him for leaving Alabama for Texas A&M since A&M gave him a considerable raise and a job with less pressure. But if Franchione sees what happened with this Web site though, he might want to wonder what the boosters will do if he has a couple of bad seasons.\nThe Michigan basketball program's self-imposed one-year ban on post-season play continues to look laughable as Michigan lost by 22 points to Duke Saturday, dropping their record to 0-6. They wouldn't qualify for the post-season in an intramural league. Among the losses, they lost at home to Western Michigan and Central Michigan, and their next game is against Bowling Green, a team they lost to last season.\nLouisiana State forward Shawnson Johnson also had one of those weeks. He decided to quit the team in the middle of a game, walking from the bench to the locker room. I bet other colleges are falling over themselves to grab this ultimate team player.\nJohnson leaving the men's basketball team wasn't the only big news in Baton Rouge. LSU women's basketball coach Sue Gunter called her team's play against Alabama State "lethargic" and said the team "didn't play well on the offensive end." Did I mention that LSU won, 65-19? If LSU was "lethargic," what in the world was Alabama State? Worm food? My goodness, Alabama State scored 19 points! At least Gunter had the good sense to say, "I shouldn't complain and be glad we won."\nI don't know what these guys were smoking, but it might have come from Arizona tight end Justin Levasseur, who was arrested in Geneseo, Ill., last week on drug possession and trafficking charges after being caught in a van with 87 pounds of marijuana. Former NFL lineman Nate Newton might find Levasseur amateurish having been arrested twice driving vans carrying a combined 388 pounds of pot, but I want to know what a University of Arizona student from Antioch, Calif., is doing 140 miles west of Chicago when he should be in school. Somebody should take the proceeds from the sale of the weed and use it to buy Levasseur a map and some textbooks.\nWhile the women's soccer team at North Carolina lost to Santa Clara in the Final Four last weekend, coach Anson Dorrance had other problems. The Tar Heels, who have won 17 of the 21 all-time women's soccer national championships, have dominated women's soccer since gaining NCAA recognition. However, two former players' sexual harassment lawsuit against Dorrance was not dismissed in federal court. Melissa Jennings and Debbie Keller claim that Dorrance asked questions about their sex lives, made unwanted phone calls and touched them inappropriately. Next to Iowa's wrestling program, no collegiate team might be more dominant than North Carolina's women's soccer team, and a lawsuit might embarrass Dorrance to the point where his program will enter a downhill slide.\nSo given all that's happened during a crazy week of college sports, you can see why I feel lethargic.