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Football

Ken Burch

(50,254 posts) Sun Nov 25, 2012, 03:29 AM Nov 2012

So...why doesn't the NCAA just get rid of the "amateur status/eligibility" thing? [View all]

Wouldn't it save them a lot of time and money on the investigations and bogus sermonizing about the ethics of the game and all that to just accept the jocks getting paid openly?

Why do the even bother pretending there's anything "amateur" about college ball anymore? Why not just admit that it's now simply the farm system for the NFL?

Shouldn't they just get real and be done with the bullshit already?

In highly organized, revenue-earning competitive sports, the concept of the "amateur" was never really anything but an indulgence on the part of 19th Century aristocratic types. It means nothing in the sports world of today.

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So...why doesn't the NCAA just get rid of the "amateur status/eligibility" thing? [View all] Ken Burch Nov 2012 OP

The NCAA is a business JonLP24 Nov 2012 #1

OK...that makes sense. Ken Burch Nov 2012 #2