OK, this is a threadjack, but since I started the thread – and it’s almost related – then I’m excusing myself (and, hey, the NBA season is over, so who cares about the original post anyway?)…
In light of the USC football revelations (and other similar revelations regarding NCAA sports-related violations over the years)… why don’t colleges just start paying their student athletes? Yes, Reggie Bush violated the “rules.” But the rules are ridiculous. Why shouldn’t he get compensated for his skills? It seems like the NCAA is just a monopolized racket that seeks to keep young athletes poor while shoveling the revenue generated by the athletes into the coffers of the schools and their athletic department personnel. What am I missing?
It seems like there’s some fantasy of college graduates that athletes that attended their alma mater had an experience anything even close to their own. Like, “Yeah, Reggie went to USC, I went to USC, we shared the same experience. That’s kinda cool.” No. Reggie Bush’s “experience” at USC was so unlike any other non-athlete’s experience at USC that he may as well have been going to school on Mars. So, instead of pretending otherwise, why not just professionalize the whole thing and destroy the silly pretense?
