The NCAA answers to no one. It appoints itself judge and jury. It’s too big and too powerful.
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“It pains me to see some of the corruptive influences in what is, by and large, a very good idea,” Condoleezza Rice said in an interview with Yahoo Sports. “College basketball is in trouble … and time is ticking.”
Right, Condoleezza. But the underlying problems with college sports have been going on for a long time and the biggest demon is the NCAA itself.
The first problem with the NCAA is that it’s not ethical. “In 2003,” athlete advocate Marc Isenberg writes, “the NCAA questioned then-Washington football coach Rick Neuheisel. NCAA investigators started by asking him about recruiting, then turned its questioning to alleged participation in an NCAA tournament pool. Neuheisel was fired. One problem: NCAA rules required investigators to disclose the nature of the interview, which they failed to do. In other words, the NCAA, in trying to enforce its rules, used tactics that were against NCAA rules.The NCAA settled the case with Neuheisel for $4.5 million.”
For the NCAA, D-Day has finally come. With its arbitrary, inconsistent, illogical, self-serving decision-making process, the governing body of college sports has somehow escaped serious scrutiny for decades.
It’s time to investigate the investigators.
The second problem with the NCAA is its inconsistency. One school is crucified for self-reporting and disciplining academic misconduct, while another school gets a slap on the wrist for condoning cash payments and stripper parties.
Perhaps the biggest problem with the NCAA is it is simply leeching off of our youth. Its members ride around in expensive cars and live in fancy houses. Meanwhile, the student-athletes the NCAA oversees scramble for a few extra dollars in spending money.
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And many question whether NCAA rules are even fair. ““What does frustrate me is where I see coaches getting paid millions of dollars, athletic directors getting paid millions of dollars, the NCAA making huge amounts of money, and then some kid gets a tattoo or gets a free use of a car and suddenly they’re banished,” President Obama said in an interview with the Huffington Post. “That’s not fair.”
The NCAA answers to no one. It makes things up as it goes along and then appoints itself judge and jury. It has grown too big and too powerful. So the time has come to put the whole organization on permanent probation.
