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Moral Bankruptcy on the Playing Field 0

Nothing illustrates the corruption of big-time college sports and the NCAA better than this sentence, from sportswriter extraordinaire Bob Molinaro, in a column about the proposed NCAA “Division IV” (emphasis added):

The unrest is a result of friction between the wealthiest schools and the less-wealthy over what sort of business model to follow in the future.

That that sentence makes sense is ipso facto evidence that there is no “amateurism” in big-time college athletics.

If it has a business model, it is a business.

It has employees, not “student athletes.”

It’s for money, not “love of the game.”

I am done with the NCAA.

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