You know Hockey and baseball don't have this problem both have extensive farm systems that train up players. Basketball and Football rely on the Universities and don't pay a dime to it. No wonder corruption is all over the place. I suspect that if the NFL and NBA took over the current college system as their farm team system, the academic corruption would be eliminated.
Better yet colleges can get back to what they do best, teaching and research. More importantly the money these sports costs the universities could be better spent on more important things - academics and facilities for regular students, not pampered athletes. >The NCAA is (extremely) hypocritical, however their products tend to be >fantastic (in my opinion). Subjectively, I think the big 3 of Football, >Basketball and Baseball are all more enjoyable to watch in their college >form vs. their pro counterparts. While the skill levels in the pro's >are ridiculous, the overall product just doesn't work for me. I think it's >mostly a result of the pageantry of college sports. > >On the subject, while with the NCAA, there seems to be a direct correlation >between how much money you make to how much you can you get away with as a >school, this Miami thing is way over the top. This could napalm their >program out of existence (SMU). Miami's president has already limited >their recruiting in the last 5 (or so?) years with more >strict academic guidelines. I get the feeling that she is (an always has >been) extremely embarrassed by Miami's "thug" image that the program has >lovingly embraced (and cultivated) since the 80's. It seems that she is the >one person in that school who has actively tried to eliminate (and distance >herself from) the negative perception of the football team. > >At the very least, this is going to be interesting to watch to see how >everything play's out. > > > >> >> The NCAA is more hypocritical than most politicians. >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:341632 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
