I find it hard to get excited about men’s college basketball because of the student athlete issue. You know “graduates who can’t read” or “four year starters leaving without a diploma”.
The NCAA is nothing more than a government sponsored monopoly.
Argh! UofM, Rutgers, and all the other gooferment schools taking my tax money by force to play a game? RU just bought Sciano the fball coach a new house. Arghh!
The “schools” make grazillions out of the labors of unpaid athletes. And, when their time is up, they get hurt, or “offend”, over the side they go.
It’s a new form of slavery.
Don’t find it just a little ironic when a lilly white student body of a “prestigious” school are cheering for their non-white “warriors” in a meaningless “game”.
I wonder what MLK would have said?
I admire their skill, their training, and their spirit. I just don’t think they are getting a fair shake. Just as I admire a marathoner from Kenya, a Russian chess grandmaster, or anyone who can do anything I can’t.
I just think a “little” reform is in order.
At least with the Jasper basketball players of Manhattan College, I know that brother President personally reviews their academics. I’ve talked to many of the graduates and I’d hire them tomorrow.
Now if all college presidents were as honest!
Reinke Faces Life 