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Scandalous Behavior: Does Everybody Cheat in College Football?
Stephen Dunn/Getty Images  Goldman Sachs, Tim Floyd, Ben
Johnson, Mark McGwire, Enron.  Jayson Blair, Marion Jones,
Bernie Madoff, Bill Belichick.  And now Rich Rodriguez?
Cheating is as much a part of our lives as scotch tape and
ATM’s.  In a world of soundbites and gotcha-journalism, where
philosophies are written in Tweet, and self-interest is a
dominant social more, why are we still pretending that cheating
is something we have distaste for?  We want cheating.  We love
cheating.  Pretending we do not is just that.   Everybody Cheats
This is not simple cynicism.  Studies—like those published by
behavioral economist Dan Ariely—attest to our appetites for
cheating, and the lengths to which we all participate in doing
so.  “We all have a fudge-factor,” he writes. “We