Do the math

In case you missed it, a recording surfaced online this week of a rap song some students at the University of Miami (Fl.) made. The song made by the "7th Floor Crew," which included members of the school's football team, was noteworthy for its vulgarly misogynistic lyrics, which evidently describe group sex by multiple men with individual women, and other extremely offensive terms that demean women.

Although, apparently, the track begins with someone saying, "This song in its entirety is not meant to disrespect any women, in its entirety. Well, you know what I mean. All right, play the track."

Uh, yeah.

The song has become a national story, though, due to the participation by the aforementioned members of the Hurricanes football team, a program historically known for the less than exemplary off-field behavior of its players.

Still, college football pundits seem more than willing to mitigate the impact of the song, if not defend its creators, on the Miami football program.

I particularly enjoyed this screed, which wistfully regrets that five years of work to restore the integrity of the football program has evidently been jeopardized by a 9-minute rap song:

It should be noted that the song is said to be 2 years old. You can decide for yourself what the statute of limitations should be on misogyny.

Hmm. Now, call me crazy, call me capable of using a calculator, but if the song really is two years old, doesn't that mean it still was produced in the middle of this apparent "restoration of integrity" supposedly going on for the past five years? It would seem to me that it's perfectly fair for this to taint the current administration, even if this wasn't hot of the presses.

Moreover, one current football player, Sinorice Moss, made the following appraisal of the song when asked about it Wednesday:

That's something that they did like two years ago. A couple of the freshmen and older guys made a rap song. It was a really cool song.

Really cool. So, even if the current crop of football players hasn't produced anything so offensive in, oh, two years, they still see nothing wrong with demeaning women.

Yeah, it sounds like that program has really done wonders to restore its integrity.

Then again, in fairness, I'd say that this probably doesn't vary dramatically from the attitudes of the vast majority of football players at this level or above, which is just another reason why football is a lousy sport. In addition to it being really boring to watch.