It's a pretty good indication that whatever program you're operating isn't working the way it's supposed to when, in response to it, Dick Vitale, the world's foremost promoter of the idea that college basketball represents all that is good and pure about young people, goes off on a rant about the concept of the "student-athlete" being a fraud.

USA Today quotes ESPN's star college hoops analyst as he turns all kinds of colors over reports that USC freshman phenom O.J. Mayo -- I hope you're sitting down, because this is shocking -- accepted cash and other gifts for three years as a high schooler and in his one season at Southern Cal.

Those gifts would be against the rules of both high school athletics and the NCAA, of course. Mayo has announced he'll skip his sophomore season, not to mention the second semester of his freshman year, to enter the NBA draft.

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