If you saw the movie Blue Chips when you were a kid...

[glassmanJ]

or watched the 30 for 30 on SMU, does anything that has happened surprise you? the only thing surprising is that people are surprised by any of this.

 

[Sioux Falls Eric]

Yes I remember Blue Chips. The only thing there was that Nick Notley was a good coach and it was pressure for boosters that finally pushed him into trying to pay players. With Coach P's ego I don't see any booster pressuring Pitino into this.

 

[LouisvilleKid79]

Blue Chips was one thing. It's worse and more complex than that now. The landscape has changed tremendously since Blue Chips. It's not only pressure from Boosters now.

 

[nccardfan]

Yeah it's pressure from greedy parents and agents.

 

[LouisvilleKid79]

You can add shoe companies, AAU coaches and runners to the list as some of the major players as well.

It's gotten completely out of control. The bad and really sad thing is that all the coaches and the NCAA know about it. They are all greedy. I'm just glad that a light is being cast on it. Although I hate to see Louisville involved in it.

AAU and the art of big time recruiting is out of control. It's just amazing to me that the even larger programs have not been implicated yet. If these big programs are not included in the findings, I will seriously start to think there is an even larger conspiracy at play here. I have my thoughts about that anyway, but if the big programs are not identified, we will really have to question what is going on.

 

[Thecycle27]

I am never been a fan of paying players but I am coming around only because that is the world we live in. When I heard the Big 10 Commissioner received a $20 million bonus I said that is enough. No one person isn't worth $20 million in a given year. Remember the Universities are the NCAA. The Universities are the problem. They are trying to create a level playing field in a market that isn't level.

Trying to make Cleveland St equal to Louisville, Kentucky or Indiana through regulations is a flawed mindset. Even if there wasn't a dime spent the best players are going to go to programs that love basketball. All the regulations have done is created a black market, in some ways the regulations have helped the whole issue explode. Want a good example ho

I think the core issue with the NCAA is the belief that if you paid players they are professionals. The isn't true a player can get paid and not be a professional. You know who decides if they are professional, NBA, NFL, WNBA, MLB, LPGA, PGA, and MLS. The money is too big and why shouldn't players benefit. The decision the NCAA members needs to make is do they want to really be in the athletic profession.

FYI my son will make $40,000 during an co-op as part of earning his degree. The Universities are already doing this.

 

[glassmanJ]

the only reason, and i mean the only reason, kids are not paid is because that money would end up coming directly out of the salaries of the university professors and administrators. the money has to come from somewhere and school's budget's will be stressed trying to pay athletes and eventually those funds will be drawn from administration's budgets. a president might make $2 million but next contract it'll be $1.8mm. and so on down the line. now administrator anywhere wants to pay any kids simply because that money has to come from their budget somehow and while boosters would kick in a ton that's only for the good athletes but you've got to pay every sport

 

[cardfaninmemphis]

The book Raw Recruits by Alexander Wolff and Armen Keteyan does a better job of describing it. They show how coaches, athletes and schools are wrapped up in the effort to sell shoes and other athletic wear.

The book was written in 1990, and it clearly is relevant today.

 

[LouisvilleKid79]

The book Raw Recruits by Alexander Wolff and Armen Keteyan does a better job of describing it. They show how coaches, athletes and schools are wrapped up in the effort to sell shoes and other athletic wear.

The book was written in 1990, and it clearly is relevant today.

Thanks. I will check it out. Have not heard about this one.

 

[KerryRhodes]

Another problem is Title lX and the olympics sports.
They dont generate anywhere near the amounts that Football and basketball do.

Maybe thats an excuse.