[CoMoChief]

This is what happens when everyone gets greedy over the big time money that is made over collegiate athletics. Everyone wants a piece of the pie. And rightfully so. There's a shit ton of money to be made w/ TV contracts etc. The better you do and the more you win means more money there is to be made.

Big money and greed is going to ruin college sports (it's already started to IMO), just like big money is going to end up ruining the NFL. I honestly don't think the NFL will be around in 20yrs. Not with all of these concussion lawsuits popping up everywhere on every team from past players ...again....wanting a piece of the bigger pie. Not the small pie the players union settled for..that was nothing but animal feed, and to be honest I'm surprised they settled for it. The people that didn't go along w/ the NFLPA Class Action suit are the ones who are going to win big on this issue. And it has the potential to bankrupt the NFL.


It's ALL about money...it's a fight of the millionaires against the billionaires in the pro sports world.

And it's the Hypocritical Big time Corporation that is the NCAA against the amateur athletes that make them billions for a piece of paper that probably won't get many of them anywhere in life after college should they not play in a pro league somewhere. Some of these kids coming in can't even read, and they're coming to an institution because they can catch, run a 4.4 and is 6'4 225lbs..and that's it. There are ways around grades, esp when you're talking about top programs. They'll pay certain people off to cook the books a little bit. That's what happened to Darrell Arthur. KU states they knew nothing about it.........suuuuuuuuuuuure they didn't. You mean to tell me they're going to invest tons of time money and resources recruiting a kid hoping to make millions off the guy in the grand scheme of things, and not even make sure he can even attend the university because he can't understand how to use the FOIL formula? Last time I checked you don't solve algebraic equations when on a bball court or football field.

Whats that quote from the movie The Program? - "80k people don't show up to watch a kid take a chemistry exam". something like that anyways maybe not verbatim. There's 10000% truth to that.

It's a hard problem to solve though. Didn't Roy Williams get into trouble for having some kind of post graduation trust fund set up for his players that got access to certain amount of funds once they graduated ??? That's a good idea but it won't fix the problem for people like Andrew Wiggins and other top 1 and done players. That's also another huge HUGE problem that is ruining the quality of college basketball. I think it should be mandatory to play 3 seasons, with having to option to leave after your Jr year. I also think the NBA needs to do the coincide w/ this and not allow players to be eligible until after their Jr yr in school or 21 yrs of age (or whatever age you'd be as a jr in school). Make it like the NFL where the only main road to the draft in the US is the college circuit. If you want to go pro at 18 instead of going to college...go play overseas. From what I heard is that Andrew Wiggins never went to class this entire semester. And why should he? He's leaving pro and he can fail all he wants to because semester doesn't end til May, and he'll be working out for the draft when it comes a month or so later.

Plus when you start paying football and (male) basketball players...then the women (who for the most part outside of a few programs nationally, probably lose their AD shit loads of money) will start to complain, and then will gymnastics and swimming and again....it's a big pie and everyone wants a piece of it.

Not sure how this will work out....guess we'll see. Cheers.....hava beer.