Texas Football: Colt McCoy's Wife Suggests Some Players Flouted Rules at UT

Colt McCoy's Wife Says That Some Texas Players Simply Don't Know How to Say No

Grass is green, the sky is blue, and college athletics are hopelessly corrupt.

These are things that we know for a fact, yet it seems that the inconvenient truth about college sports never fails to get people up in arms.

With the NCAA's investigation of the Ohio State football program currently ongoing, the focus has shifted to the University of Texas thanks to a certain caller that randomly dropped in on Colin Cowherd's show on ESPN Radio earlier on Tuesday.

That caller was none other than Rachel McCoy, wife of former Longhorns great Colt McCoy. And unfortunately for the university, she had some rather damning things to say about the environment surrounding the Texas football program.

In speaking about whether or not her husband, now a member of the Cleveland Browns, had any contact with agents, boosters, and other such tempters during his time at Texas, Rachel McCoy said that Colt never accepted anything. However, she did imply that other players did accepted things:

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Colt did not himself have as much interaction, I don't think. I know he was approached quite a bit... I saw so many of his teammates who just... they maybe didn't have so much self control to be able to say no to somebody.

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McCoy's wife also touched on the oft-mentioned absurdity of how much money universities make off of their student-athletes, while dishing out none in return. Sure, they get an education and all their dreams come true, but that's not necessarily enough for some players.

In fact, as Rachel McCoy sees it, the system as a whole is fundamentally flawed:

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It doesn't matter if these guys come from nothing or if the guys come from families that have everything. You cannot expect 19- and 20-year-old kids to say no to free stuff when they're in college... It's silly.

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Credit where credit's due, McCoy's beloved did point out that the University of Texas takes any and all violations very seriously, and it goes to great lengths to educate its players.

At the same time, we have to keep in mind that this is the same school that supposedly made over $90 million in revenue off its football program in 2010. With that much money flying around, it stands to reason that some of it would end up in players' pockets.

Will anything come of Rachel McCoy's comments? Personally, I doubt it. The NCAA is not going to use a radio show as a basis for an investigation. At least, one hopes not.

That said, I do think we can add her call to the "College football is a joke" file. It's getting to be pretty thick at this point.