College sports are great because of the college athletes and students.

College sports suck because of the people who try and regulate them.

The system is set up for sleaziness. The NCAA rules for recruiting make normal business activities illegal, and so every school breaks the rules in one way or another. Collegiate athletics is a business, a revenue generator.

When a school gets caught 'illegaly recruiting', the student athletes who were part of the issues are already gone, and the athletes currently at the school get punished for something they didn't do.There is no easy solution. There is millions at stake for the coaches and they don't make those dollars by following the rules, they make them by winning, and pretending to follow the rules.


If it is going to be a business, then we need to let the normal rules of business apply. Recruiting costs should be a line item. Now we have this system where the coach kisses the player's ass, he gives mom a hug, and then winks and lets an alumni know the account number. The students who are looking to get paid to play are going to get it one way or another, so let's just get it in the open.

Trust me, even if fans of a school know a kid is there because his mom is living in a 5k/month condo, and he got an Acura they are still going to like him if he wins. It is not amateur athletics.

I did play Junior college soccer, and I had a scholarship and "work study", which for 20 dollars a day, I was a towel boy in the women's body conditioning class. I worked for an hour/day. I handed towels to the girls as they came into class, and then ensured they dropped them into the laundry bin on the way out the door. Now, this was a little too hard for me to do on my own, I had 2 other team-mates work with me. Our shift was from 1100-1220. This was arranged so that they didn't break some hokey scholarship rule. The NCAA and all of these regulating bodies are just kidding themselves.