by BEARZ77 » September 27th, 2017, 5:50 pm
Art Haines the MSU voice of sports on radio hosts his own 'Sport's Talk" call in show most weekdays from 4:00-6:00 pm. He had a gentleman on tonight supposedly somewhat familiar with the current investigations who said before it was all over he estimated it will involve at least 30% of the power 5 schools getting some form of sanction. I don't know; this has been going on for years and was hardly not a known issue, but the NCAA did nothing because they are afraid of the power 5 schools and their financial and political backers. The only reason it's happening now is that the FBI stepped in because of the blatant failure of the NCAA to be willing to police it. If the NCAA can find a way to curtail or soften the focus of the FBI in order to protect the Big Boys they will. Louisville was just too easy a target because of the on going sex scandal issues already being under investigation. The NCAA will throw a few programs under the bus in order to give the appearance of cleaning house, but you got believe some deals get cut somewhere to protect the overall power structure.
There is an obvious solution to this and that is to remove the money from the equation; that is remove the incentives for all the cheating, put all college sports under a uniform revenue sharing model for all dollars generated by Tournaments, Television rights, merchandising, etc, basically everything so that the playing field is level and the money generated goes to enhancing the opportunities for all student athletes across all D-1 programs. and return college sports to what is was meant to be instead of a huge business in whch coaches and a few Universities get rich. Won't happen, but it's what should.
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