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Posted on 10. May, 2010 at 5:30 am by Kinger in NCAA Football, PAC-10 Football

Another day in Cowvallis, another arrest.

Quarterback Peter Lalich popped for DUI. Okay, this one actually happened in Shasta, California, but you get my point.

That brings the total arrests for Lunchpail U to a now robust 7 this offseason. That isn’t even counting Brennan Olanders guilty plea to theft this January.

Remember a couple of months ago when even the rather mundane MIPs were being reported on like Federal offenses committed by the Ducks? Some even mentioned that Josh Kaddu should be suspended for the year after he received his.

Remember when Jeremiah Masoli and LaMichael James was facing felony charges and the screams from Portland were that any player facing a felony should immediately be suspended? Hmm, I wonder why those same sentiments aren’t be forced onto Olander and the OSU program, especially since this is his second theft charge in the span of a year? Why isn’t Canzano being summoned to be on seemingly 145427 episodes of Outside The Lines to talk about the OSU program being one that has spun out of control?

Has Smiley Riley really built up that much capital with the media to not have to answer questions and be accountable? What is especially interesting to me is how the felony charges against Olander and recently graduated Lyle Moevao and Keaton Kristick took almost 2 months to leak out. Did Riley not know that one of his current players was facing a felony? Why is it just now coming out that Olander was convicted of theft back in January? Where is the heat coming down on “Mr. 4-loss” for allowing Olander to play the entire 09 season with those previous charges hanging out over his head? How did no one covering the program even know about these charges?

If you listen to the media members, they will say that they always have problems with the UO athletic department being transparent. And that’s fair enough. But…no one can say that Chip Kelly wasn’t out and talking about his programs follies this winter. Heck the Oregonian just made a HUGE ordeal about the UO redacting the amount of their Nike contract, so the UO released it in all of it’s glory. What was the sinister monster that UO was hiding? Wait for it……..nothing. It was much ado about nothing. But Mediocre Mike hides and arrest for an entire season and there is no searing report about the ways that OSU shield and cloaks their program from the people. Odd.

With the racially motivated beating of a national guardsmen, Stealing of a gay ram, paying a cabbie in herb and “bus shelter beat down” giving by Al Alfalava, booze and his car, not being that long ago, why does Riles continue to get the free pass and have his program be lauded for being the “#1 family atmosphere” in college football?

Is it because the media find “Gee Goshes” and “Gee Gollys” to be that endearing? Is it because never having a season with less than 4 losses takes all kinds of pressure and scrutiny off his back? Or is it because, as everyone knows, Oregon is by far the preeminent program in the state, and for good or bad, they just flat out move more papers and get more online hits than their counterparts to the North?

Whatever the reason is, it isn’t a good enough one, and it is a clear double standard. With the lack of coverage by the Oregonian at least we officially know where they stand when it comes to UO v OSU.

Transparency indeed.

Tags: Arrests, Brennan Olander, DUII, john canzano, Mike Riley, Oregon State Beavers, Peter Lalich, The Oregonian