Real Sports story implicates Auburn, other schools

Miami won four national championships and the only "penalty" it ever paid was a scholarship reduction at the start of the Bruce Davis Era. They eventually built that program right back up to another national championship. All of those banners still hang. You think they weren't breaking all the NCAA's rules?

 

Herald-Leader nailed Kentucky basketball. I think one SI story that DID get somebody nailed was Henry Hill's tell all on the BC point shaving. But that got Rick Kuhn busted, not the school.

 

I think what's problematic is how the NCAA requires its student-athletes to sign away the rights to their image "forever and throughout the universe" before they start school.

Once their eligibility is complete, the NCAA should have no claim on the now former student-athlete.

Seems to me O'Bannon has a winner in that argument. As for the rest, I've thought for a long time that college athletes should be paid, at least something.

While it is true athletes do get extended special benefits, so do fraternity members, kids in ROTC or the band. Reporters at the student newspaper, just about everybody on campus is getting something. How much of something, of course, varies.

 

I thought Emery nailed UK...

 

Correct. The Herald-Leader did do a damn nice job exposing widespread player-paying cheating at UK in a blockbuster expose in the mid-80s. BUT, as I recall, the NCAA didn't do a damn thing about it until a few years later when UK a got caught red handed with the money spillng out of the Emery package. And who knows if they ever would've done anything if not for the Emery incident.

In fact, I believe Tarkanian's famous "NCAA so mad at Kentucky it'll hammer Cleveland State" line was originally said in reference to the NCAA's non-response to the Herald-Leader evidence.

 

This, too. If journalists want to play NCAA enforcement cop, these are the rules they should be worried about coaches breaking. The ones that, you know, actually protect the students-athletes.

 

Just watched the Frontline piece on this issue, too. You guys are in good company. NCAA President Mark Emmert is apparently as clueless (or dishonest) as some of you about basic economics. He absurdly compared the players situation-where the NCAA members institutions open collude to set prices-to the salaries paid to janitors while attempting to justify the outrageous sums of money he, the coaches, and the athletic directors make on this racket.

 

Must be a bitch being the smartest guy in the room...

 

Every college student deals with not enough hours in a week to get everything done.
Jobs bog down many who still must pay back student loans for years after they finish. And if I'm talking apples and oranges, here's more apples and oranges: How many college athletes have to worry about paying off their student loans?

 

To quote Broadcast News, it's awful.

 

Valid argument for restructuring the higher education system to make it more affordable. Not quite sure of its relevance to the continued cartel against athletes, aside from a misery loves company argument.

 

That's because you're clearly smarter than I am.