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Message: [QUOTE="jncuse, post: 2341265, member: 1969"] Your ideological view of college sports and student athletes has not existed in a long time. When was the last time the NCAA cared about student athletes especially in football and basketball? They have cared about basically 4 things for several years when it comes to basketball and football: 1) How much money can these sports bring to the schools, conferences and the NCAA. 2) How to ensure none of this money is ever seen by athletes, and yet everybody else can get a nice healthy cut. 3) Ensuring football and basketball players have no ability to easily transfer like other students or even other student athletes. 4) Ensuring football and basketball players can easily have their scholarship revoked so the team can get better to appease its fans. And fans who blame the NCAA and "money" for this corruption should consider their actions. Look at #3 and #4. How many fans get angry when a player wants to transfer. As fans, and purely as fans, they don't want players to have the same rights as other athletes or student athletes. When the system view student athletes in that regard it's hard to have a system that is not corrupt. The high level student athlete (football and basketball player) is incapable of getting the top degree they want because the fans, coaches, and the NCAA wants them to spend more time making more money or to help the team win more games. And this just isn't athletes "complaining: with no merit -- this was the entire basis of the Northwestern Football team, and I am pretty sure those are kids that are care about academics The time demands force many to compromise on their field of study. Or worse teams bring in players that have no interest in academics and have no chance in hell of legitimately passing a non tailored university degree. Today was a brutal failure by the NCAA to enforce its current rules. At the same time, the real issue is not enforcing its rules. It's about coming up with a new framework for college basketball and college football that will reduce corruption. Here some of the things that need to be considered. There is still way too much money in the game to make it not corrupt in its current framework: P5 Separate from the NCAA or create a new division. Recognize the extra time spent and less movement benefits they get does not make them the same as other student athletes. Compensate them Allow kids to choose a university degree or a school sponsored life skills program (for example coaching skills, physical trainer) that does not result in a degree -- try to actually help the kid who doesn't have the same academic skills to excel academically but that can excel in another field. Of course you can say its too bad for the kid, but the schools will always go after them due to $. So make it work. [/QUOTE]

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