All you need to know about the NCAA was encapsulated a couple of years ago when Terrelle Pryor and a couple of other Ohio St. players got into trouble for violating NCAA rules between the end of the regular season and the BCS championship game that OSU was to play. They were suspended for four games, but that suspension was not to take effect until the start of the next season. Can’t have any of the luster taken off the BCS championship game, can we? Might cost some TV ratings and some money.
If the organization that is supposedly in charge of keeping everyone on the straight and narrow can be so cynical and corrupt, is it any wonder that the schools, coaches and players involved don’t play by the rules? Time to end the hypocrisy and the fiction of “student/athlete” and just start paying these guys and making “college” football officially the minor league developmental system that it already actually is.
I think the phony classes at UNC was another tipping point for the ncaa. If you aren’t going to confront that, then what exactly is your purpose?
The solution is simple. Stop watching it. Stop writing about it. Stop talking about it.
Kill king football. Bring it back down a few notches in the pantheon of sports. It’s not that exciting, or our lives just that boring?