Two points:
CBS wire isn't written by CBS - it's the AP wire and they merely copy the stories to save money. I bet the same guy copies the stories for all the different sports. To write an original piece requires far more work - that's why you only see writers producing at maximum two features a week (excluding things like Power Rankings, blogs, mail feedback etc) - the writer has to do his research (although on Sportsline thats sometimes questionable), form his argument and then produce a couple of drafts. That all takes time - and time is money. Anyone could write a decent wire piece - just log onto the college paper's website, find out who's been suspended / is transferring, get any major events in their past history and a few stats from the last couple of seasons and you're done. You can easily produce 20 of these pieces in the time it takes to produce a good draft of a feature piece.
Add to that the fact that no matter how many times suspension stories appear you will still get a message board proclaiming "The NCAA need to do something" or "These kids aren't student-athletes" or "the SEC sucks" which will guarantee responses. It's an easy way of keeping people who may be primarily interested in only one sport interested during the off season.
However, I do agree that CBS could produce more stories or at least get writers to update their blogs more often with personal opinions on suspensions etc. Gary Parrish who I think is just about the best sports writer on the site (Clay Travis never writes about sports) keeps his blog updated more than most - even if its just a paragraph or two about his opinion on the latest story. In contrast, Dodd only produces a feature once a month in the offseason and only uses his blog to dump all the research info from the same story. More diversity would be nice - CBS listened to the message boards about blogs; it would be nice if the writers used them
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