The NCAA needs to be investigated by Congress. Coaches, universities, the NCAA, television and radio stations are making millions to billions off of these athletes, many of whom came from poor backgrounds. Yet if one takes a car, even gets a meal paid for by someone else, they get investigated? What is this, slavery?

Do most of the comfortable middle to upper-middle class fans know the socioeconomic background most of these players come from? They don’t have their wealthy parents to cut them checks in school to support them. A lot really don’t care, and aren’t there for a college education, they are there to play sports. If their performance suffers, they are cut and lose their scholarship. So it can be argued that sports comes first at these places. I have graduated from a Division 1 school with a top football program and can confirm this.

I used to condemn athletes for taking money and cars until I started living in the real world and dealt with scumbag bosses and their lame excuses for ripping you off, while they buy big houses and vacation all the time. These players are getting the shaft, and most NCAA fans are too dim to see this. If this is so amateur, how can the coach get millions a year, in addition to endorsement deals? He should be making as much as a professor and teaching on campus!

Bush had the opportunity to speak out against this garbage, but instead he decided he was going to “help” USC. He’s either dumb or brainwashed.

I sense there is a bit of racial divide when it comes to this issue too. Notice it’s bad for the black players to have taken money and bought luxury items, but no one talks about the white coaches, the university presidents, and TV and radio broadcasters who fly in private planes or first class and live in nice homes!

I’m sorry, I know it’s against the “rules”, but my moral compass tells me that the NCAA is wrong for not paying athletes, and not even allowing them to take outside sources of revenue.

University is not the place for a minor league system. The rules in place basically protect an institution of slavery. Notice that very few, if any sports news outlets or news op-ed columns ever criticize the NCAA. They are in on it with them.

Does the NFL or NBA not realize how much money the NCAA is costing them? Their teams could be as popular as teams in Europe because fans could devote most of their time and funds to the local team!

I just fail to see, how the athletes are to blame for everything with these scandals.
arch, I see you’ve drank the Kool-Aid too…what a shame.

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