Needs

September 14th, 2011 at 2:48 PM ^

That's basically the argument of the larger article by Taylor Branch (the author of the definitive 3 volume bio of MLK, Jr.) that this is taken from...

 

"Scholarship athletes are already paid," declared the Knight commission members, "in the most meaningful way possible: with a free education." This evasion by prominent educators severed my last reluctant, emotional tie with imposed amateurism. I found it worse than self-serving. It echoes masters who once claimed that heavenly salvation would outweigh earthly injustice to slaves. In the era when our college sports first arose, colonial powers were turning the whole world upside down to define their own interests as all-inclusive and benevolent. Just so, the NCAA calls it heinous exploitation to pay college athletes a fair portion of what they earn.

Not only that, but he's backed up by the guy who basically founded the NCAA in 1951, who said of college athletics:

 

"This is the plantation mentality resurrected and blessed by today's campus executives."

Looong article here...

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/10/the-shame-of-colleg…

umfan323

September 14th, 2011 at 12:14 PM ^

Lhttp://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/6966240/ncaa-hands-boise-state-broncos-three-years-probation-scholarship-reduction

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"It could have been much worse, considering the NCAA charged the school with a lack of institutional control. Still, the violations that occurred in the football program were all secondary in nature. They involved incoming players sleeping on couches or the floors of guys already on the team. Maybe even a meal at a fast-food joint"

umfan323

September 14th, 2011 at 12:25 PM ^

I was going to make this its own thread but I didnt know how... Im not computer savvy..

 

However I believe with this Ohio should get hit pretty hard ..Like you said McDonalds and sleeping on a players couch or floor doesnt equal thousands of dollars but who am I to say what those cunts are thinking