The NCAA has it's fingers in it's ears and is saying 'lalalalalalala'. They are in Sargeant Schultz mode, and it's interesting to watch what happens. Advertisers don't usually like be associated with felons, so are they going to change tacks and disassociate themselves from college athletics because it is finally coming to light how sleazy all this is? Honestly, it's not likely. What is likely is that the whole country agrees to ignore whatever comes to light with this stuff because college sports just means too much to us, and we can't imagine life without it.
I am becoming more and more fond of the English system of football (soccer). They sign a kid to a deal when he is 10 years old and he (or she) progresses through their system until they either make the big club (Alabama), are loaned out to a lesser club so they get meaningful game experience and stay fit (Southern Miss), or get kicked to the curb where they have to go out and find another club to play for (Samford). Everyone knows where they stand with this system, and they have the FA to make sure it stays as it should. Gambling is completely legal and above board (heck, half of the squads have gambling services on the front of their shirts), and though I am sure over history someone has taken a dive or a referee has awarded a penalty when maybe there should not have been, I don't think there has been all of the sneaking around that goes on in college athletics every single day.
One day someone is going to pull a card off of the bottom of this house and it's all going to fall down. The NCAA needs to be working on ways to control the when and how hard it all falls. If they aren't they are bigger fools than they have been made to look by this blatant cheating they have allowed for way too long.
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