The editor called Wednesday following the release of the Rutgers report detailing Scarlet Knights coach Kyle Flood's Adventures in Grade Changing. He had one question: Do we need to update Cheating For Dummies?
For those who haven't read it, Cheating For Dummies is a resource I created in 2011—translation: wrote while waiting for a pork butt to finish smoking on July 4—to help those coaches who occasionally need to bend the NCAA's rules to get ahead. Major college sports were in the midst of a real cheating crisis in '11. I don't mean there was any more cheating than usual; coaches had simply forgotten how to cheat properly.