More Corrupt: FIFA or the NCAA?

It's a lot closer than you think.  FIFA got caught being criminally corrupt, but the NCAA has been systemically and systematically corrupt for years.  They haven't been caught breaking any laws, but they basically get away without paying their workers, who happen to be kids who cant do anything to fight back.  Any player who does have the nerve to say he deserves the money is swatted down like a fly.  

The bowl system was among the most corrupt consortium in sports.  It was the bowls and their payments to NCAA officials in the form of luxurious "perks" that kept us from having a real championship game and then playoffs for so long.  

Their so-called "enforcment" of rules regarding recruiting are more like the Armed Forces' old "don't ask, don't tell" policy.  The only time a big team gets punished is if there is a "smoking gun" that is so blatant the NCAA has to do something.  However, the little guy always gets maximum punishment.

The corruption of the NCAA, especially when it comes to uneven enforcement of rules, is perfecly described in a line I believe I saw on MGoBlog first.  When UK committed what looked like a violation, someone said, "Western Kentucky is going get hammered for that."

SMU got the "death penalty" for paying players during the CJK5H era.  UNC's academic scandal is much worse than what happened at SMU.  Does anyone really think UNC is going to get a punishment that is anywhere near the "death penalty?"

FIFA is more corrupt, but the NCAA isn't nearly as far behind as it may appear.

100%

All other FIFA extensive corruption aside, the organization has actual blood on their hands. 

"Taking" versus "making"?

Sounds like "legislation" is then the only difference.

Hopefully that always stays in the hands of the many people, and not the concentrated power of the few! (ooops!)

FIFA for sure. But that doesn't negate the NCAA's wrong-doings. FIFA is world-wide, orders of magnitude bigger than the NCAA. Global-scale corruption is always more egregious/high-stakes than a single country (that's historical).

when you make up the rules.

John Oliver Rips the NCAA

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No. The NCAA is the collective voice and arm of the universities.  It doesn't exist outside of the university context.  Jim Hackett was part of the NCAA, and I laugh at the OP for thinking that you could even call Jim Hackett corrupt, let alone wonder whether Jim Hackett was as corrupt as FIFA.

Some Michigan fans need to untwist their undies and look at the facts, not the myths they have created for themselves.  The NCAA does what the schools (inclufding Michigan) and the conferences (including the Big Ten) tell it.

The best way to get rid of the NCAA is to eliminate all intercollegiate sports above the club level. Then you don't need any central authority to coordinate the rules; clubs can decde the rules they play under on a case-by-case basis, just like they did before conferences.  You could just have a bunch of conferences with their own rules, and forget about interconference play, but going the club route is cheaper and desn't create the potential for corrupt conferences.

They uise the argument that they have no legal authority to determie what schools must do to carry out the schools' medical responsibilities to their players.  And they are correct.

Fucking bunch of whiners about the NCAA.  The NCAA is like every organization everywhere:  "we are dumber collectively than any of us are individually."  People need to get some steel in their spine and learn to live with the world as it is.  Organizations that don't make mistakes and don't limit their liability don't exist.