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[QUOTE="Col. Bleep, post: 1173484, member: 1023"]
Well, there are no Baylor-like infractions.
No murder was covered up.
But that's a pretty good laundry list.

Let's be honest...all these violations occur because the university is so involved in the lives of its athletes...unlike it's relationship with other students.
No one ever gave my parents transportation to campus (fortunately).
No one ever cared if I went to class. (Well, except for my roommate who needed my notes because he sure wasn't going to class).
In other words, the university is behaving more like, say, a sports franchise than a university.

I have no doubt similar things go on at all or most big time sports schools.
But that's not an excuse.
It's part of the problem.

College sports are huge revenue generators.
That's not going to change.
The TV $$$ driving the push for success (and therefore these "improper" behaviors) isn't going to disappear.
If colleges want to be big time sports franchises, fine.
Then they should stop pretending to be "schools" focused primarily on an educational mission.
Perhaps it's time to consider spinning off major athletic programs into affiliated businesses.
Of course, that also means paying the key employees...the players.
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