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[QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 2317668, member: 405"]
That's awfully optimistic.  I don't see much changing.  Nothing much has changed with the disclosure - by the players themselves - several years ago that North Carolina has a whole fake major that athletes are steered into.

Nothing really changed about campus visits are Louisville's Hooker Gate.  Hell, even Pitino still has his job.

Nothing really changed when Dave Bliss covered up a murder by one of his players at Baylor.

Nothing really changed when Florida State's football players (including, I believe, Jamies Winston, the  Heisman Trophy winner) were involved in repeated sexual assault and the Tallahassee police dept. was complicit in the cover up.

You had a governor of a state intervene when one of his teams was left out of conference expansion and nothing really happened.

You had the Senator from Utah threaten to challenge the BCS football system because he was afraid that Brigham Young would be foreclosed from every competing for the national championship and nothing really happened.

Nothing much changed after the BC points shaving scandal back in the 80s.  You still see betting lines on all college sports.

So, forgive me if I don't share your sentiment.

NCAA and the networks have power, lots of money, and the product that enables them to make lots more.  I don't see much of anything changing.
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