ROFL!! Awww, did I strike a nerve and hurt your itty-bitty feelings by pointing out how idiotic your argument is. The players have a choice to play professionally without going anywhere near a college. That is a fact, not an opinion and it's that simple. Until you manage to pull your head out of your ass long enough to understand that you're not even worth arguing it because it's like kicking a toothless puppy. You're not even capable of defending yourself.
The players have a choice to play professionally without going anywhere near a college. Many players can and do play professionally, both in the NBA and abroad without setting foot in college. Until you can address that elephant in the room your pathetic whining about what players "have to" do is just laughable.
International options is not an argument for anti-competitive tactics in the American basketball market. There were oil companies in Europe at the time, but Sherman did not care when it came to Standard Oil. Your argument is terrible and my feelings are not hurt.
Seriously though, why do you care if a player gets a bag of cash, it is people like you that are wasting FBI resources with investigations into player donations and NCAA athlete eligibility. It is completely ridiculous.
Thankfully people are realizing that the situation is untenable and by barring an athlete from cashing in on their value when they have an agreed upon monopoly between the NBA and the NCAA on the American basketball market, they are opening themselves up to bigger problems. Athletes will be able to be sponsored in the next few years. Colleges may not have to pay them, but they will be able to start capitalizing on their value by being able to be paid for endorsements and signing autographs, you are probably one of those people that are outraged because it tarnishes collegiate athletics.
Tell me, what schools are corrupt when it comes to collegiate baseball?
This is all tangential to the argument that you think March Madness teams aren't basically all corrupt, either by academic fraud, payment under the table, or silencing criminal or sexual assault charges. It's an incredibly naive belief to think that Creighton or Gonzaga aren't in the same boat as Duke or Kentucky.
I hate hate hate the corruption in college basketball and football and it taints every championship, every record, every accomplishment.
Why do championships, records, and accomplishments, matter to you in amateur athletics, what is sacred about players being unpaid and pretending to value the education that they are getting in exchange for being athletes that makes it wholesome to you? Like I seriously don't understand that. Do you get mad when Notre Dame lowers their academic standards and lets in better, but less intelligent athletes? Why???
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