Good morning West Texans and all you good, fine, friendly folks out there who wish you were . . .
This is one of the best pieces of writing on the NCAA and how they constantly fail the “student-athletes” and really most of their so-called Mission that I’ve seen in a while.
The National Football Post is quickly gaining a reputation for solid, no-holds barred writing and this article by Jack Bechta on how the NCAA handled the Oklahoma State/Bryant Dez case is a perfect example.
A former player and agent, Bechta understands how the system works and doesn’t work and points out some of the great hypocrisy that goes on with the NCAA when it comes to applying “justice”. As he states it is amazing how quickly a lower profile school like OSU can get nailed while we’re still waiting to see if anything will happen to USC. Imagine that.
This should be of important to Tech fans because of the players involved as well as the idea that it could have been your school. I have no doubt in my mind that much of whatever Dez Bryant did or didn’t do with Deion Sanders probably happened around Michael Crabtree while he was at Tech. When I see Sanders and Eugene Parker I get a little nervous. It could have been your favorite WR that could have gotten flustered by the NCAA. Imagine that.
That the NCAA is morally bankrupt is such an old story it isn’t even worth discussing anymore. The real story is that the member institutions want it that way. It is the member schools themselves, many more out there are have nots than haves, that don’t really want reform. They want money. If you’re school makes money you’re safe. If you don’t, you get used as an example.
I get tired of hearing about reform in college athletics because it will never happen. The Presidents are too weak to do it and the A.D.’s don’t want it. They talk about the horror of rising costs and then do nothing substantive to control it other than not printing media guides. Wow. Tough reform.
Some day, the NCAA will cease to exists. When the USC’s of the world get tired of footing the bill for Miami of Ohio and start their own league at least everything will be on the up and up and we won’t have this continued sham of amateurism under the guise of the NCAA.
Some day.
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