SI managing editor Chris Stone and executive editor Jon Wertheim put a bookend on the magazine's five-part Oklahoma State investigation, saying at the very end of the series what they should've said at the beginning: "We weren't interested in following what one colleague calls the 'NCAA scandal train.' ... But as the need for reform in college sports becomes increasingly urgent, we thought it was essential to ground the discussion in detail by taking a deeper, longitudinal look at a BCS program." [ SI]