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Message: [QUOTE="RandomGuy, post: 3813314, member: 6422"] Walter Byers built the NCAA as its president from 1951-1988. He coined the term student athlete. With the $$ influx from TV? By 1995 he rallied against the very system he created, because what it had become. He called the NCAA a "nation wide money laundering scheme." He used the term "neo plantation" to describe it. He called on congress for the "deregulation of a monopoly business operated by not-for-profit institutions contracting together to achieve maximum financial returns." He called it hypocrisy and exploitation. "Collegiate amateurism is not a moral issue; it is an economic camouflage for monopoly practice that 'operates an air-tight racket of supplying cheap athletic labor.'" The very man that came up with the system began rallying against it 25 years ago, because Billions more $$'s changes things. I happen to agree. [/QUOTE]