I am really curious about any experiences you would like to share with the NCAA. I was an undergrad in a place where athletics didn't bring revenue to the school; but I've been in places since then were sports matter a lot. But I know that student-athletes have vastly different experiences depending on whether their sport brings in money.
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Martin Baxter <martinbaxt...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > Wherein Brother Whitlock Speaks Truth to Power... > > > http://msn.foxsports.com/collegefootball/story/jason-whitlock-expose-ncaa-not-reggie-bush-072210?GT1=39002 > > The NCAA rule book is not the United States Constitution. > > If anything, the rule book supporting the bogus concept of “amateur > athletics” is akin to the laws that supported Jim Crow, denied women > suffrage and upheld slavery. > > The architect of the modern NCAA, the organization’s former president, > Walter Byers, spelled out all of this in his 1997 *mea culpa*, > “Unsportsmanlike Conduct: Exploiting the Student-Athlete.” > > Byers wrote: “Today the NCAA Presidents Commission is preoccupied with > tightening a few loose bolts in a worn machine, firmly committed to the > neo-plantation belief that the enormous proceeds from college games belong > to the overseers (administrators) and supervisors (coaches). The plantation > workers performing in the arena may only receive those benefits authorized > by the overseers.” > > Byers was not and is not a Jesse Jackson sympathizer. Byers is a white, > right-wing conservative from Kansas. He was the NCAA’s first president > (1951-1988) and sole visionary. He admitted creating a monster. His NCAA > memoir was his repentance and call for a fundamental overhaul of a corrupt > organization. > > > -- > "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell > wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik > >
