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[QUOTE="RandomGuy, post: 3650166, member: 6422"]
That was the former head of the NCAA's  position.  The man that designed the NCAA amateur model, and ran the NCAA from. 1951-1988.  I felt his 1995 words may actually have merit, based on his 37 years of implementing it.    He was rallying against the very system he created. The system HE called a neo-plantation.

He also said, the NCAA was "a nationwide money-laundering scheme."

He asked Congree to "Free the Athletes," and enact a "comprehensive College Athletes' Bill of Rights."  He says that "this is not a suggestion for new government controls; on the contrary, it is an argument that the federal government should require deregulation of a monopoly business operated by not-for-profit institutions contracting together to achieve maximum financial returns." Doing so would treat the "twin curses of [B]exploitation[/B] and [B]hypocrisy [/B]that have bedeviled college athletics in direct proportion to its intensified commercialization," and would prevent colleges from denying players the freedoms available to other students. Finally, he says, "[B]Collegiate amateurism is not a moral issue; it is an economic camouflage for monopoly practice. . . ,  that operates an air-tight racket of supplying cheap athletic labor.'" [/B]

---The man that designed "amateurism", and ran, the NCAA for 37 years.

My intent was not for a social media ignorant hot take.  It was to relay the words of the man who designed the very system we are discussing.
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