The NCAA's Predictable Injustice

[star2city]

Predictable Injustice

The NCAA manual is thick, detailed and contains about a million bylaws. None of them state

[The Sicatoka]

The Best Little Monopoly in America.

Finally, we come to the NCAA, which has successfully suppressed financial competition in college sports. The NCAA is impressive partly because its limitations on scholarships and other payments to athletes boost the profitability of college sports programs. But even more impressive is the NCAA's ability to maintain the moral high ground. For example, many college basketball players come from poor families and are not sufficiently talented to make it to the National Basketball Assn. Absent the NCAA, such a student would be able to amass significant cash during a college career. With the NCAA in charge, this student remains poor. Nevertheless, the athletic association has managed to convince most people that the evildoers are the schools that violate the rules by attempting to pay athletes rather than the cartel enforcers who keep the student-athletes from getting paid. So given this great balancing act, the NCAA is the clear choice for best monopoly in America.

[LB#11]

NCAA

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[Chief Illiniwek Supporter]

Predictable Injustice

Illinois went thru what may have been the last ever "lack of institutional control" proctological exam by the NCAA. After they found no evidence of the original accusations and little evidence of other violations, at the press conference to announce the wrap-up the NCAA representative said (and I'm not quite verbatim, but its close) "even though we couldn't prove anything, I'm sure they are guilty". Many people consider that exam and that press conference a turning point. Most people think that since our NCAA audit (early 1990's) neither the exams nor the punishments have been anything like the one we had.

BTW, we were originally accused of essentially buying a player. When it was all said and done, among other things we got caught when 2 football players were taking a recruit around the stadium on a hot, sunny summer day-and after walking around the old-fashioned Astroturf the two college students pumped in enough money to buy

THREE

cans of soft drinks: that was considered a recruiting violation, liable to sway that recruit towards our school.

Meanwhile, Indiana hires a known cheater, kind of whitewashes one internal investigation after fraud is found, and finally is caught months later during a second exam. If you don't call hiring a cheater (a cheater not just by the NCAA definition, but the only coach

EVER

sanctioned by the basketball coaching association) and then not supervising said cheater "a lack of institutional control"; well, then nothing should ever again be considered a lack of institutional control.