What\u2019s in that syringe? Untie me. You\u2019ll go to jail. This won\u2019t work. I\u2019m not talking. I hope I won\u2019t. I know I shouldn\u2019t say as a kid I was a white wimp and still am and therefore perfect to work for the NCAA. I loathe my athletic superiors and all the media and fan and female attention they receive. They don\u2019t deserve it. They only deserve room, board, and an education. We in the NCAA have a solemn right to the billions generated by those young football and basketball players. From our vast headquarters they paid for we plot and preach how to keep them from gaining any financial benefit, even a trip home on a holiday. We have this power because years ago we emasculated passive athletic directors and university presidents and bamboozled the public and, miraculously, made ourselves immune to the Constitution and due process. <\/p>\n
\tWe can no longer get away with banishing disagreeable players and universities from television or sentencing their programs to one year of death but still take away their scholarships and bowl games and make fans unhappy. And, in my liberated state, I gleefully volunteer that it\u2019s especially fun signing hefty television and concessions contracts while punishing schools where black athletes are the stars. That would be most places. We enjoyed tormenting USC because Reggie Bush\u2019s parents received rent money from an agent, while he produced millions for us, and demanded return of his Heisman Trophy. The terrified Trojans responded instantly and, without our even ordering, removed all Bush trophies and photos in the most thorough historical erasure since de-Stalinization. Oh, maybe I shouldn\u2019t have said Stalin. Don\u2019t make any connections. Our greatest leader, Walter Byers, bragged about the \u201cplantation mentality\u201d of those of who us who strangle college sports, but that\u2019s only a metaphor. We haven\u2019t enslaved or killed anyone. We only destroy aspirations and fun and ignore twenty-two percent of the athletes whose scholarships are cancelled every year. We get off on that. We\u2019re the NCAA. <\/p>\n
Source \u2013 I become ill thinking about NCAA outrages so am keeping this piece short and referring readers to \u201cThe Shame of College Sports,\u201d a devastating essay by Taylor Branch in The Atlantic\u2019s October issue. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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