Investigations -- Kansas and North Carolina

[BUBear]

At least Kentucky suffered for their sins in the 80s. Kansas gotta pay the piper, brother.

Kansas doesn't care. They gave Self a lifetime contract, they will not cooperate with the NCAA investigation and Jayhawk business will go on as usual.

 

[BUBear]

Let's be honest: in both basketball and football, most of the major powers are "cheating" in some form. Given the NCAA rulebook, it's virtually impossible not to "cheat". Which is part of the problem.

NIL is great both because it allows athletes to get paid for providing value to the university, but also because it gets rid of a lot of the BS and hypocrisy. Now we don't have to pretend that players aren't getting paid.

That said, we're still left with the other illusion that all college athletes are "students". I do think the NBA is partly to blame for this in college basketball. The 1-and-done rule is one of the worst rules out there. It achieves nothing, except making college basketball more screwed up. Wish the NBA would just get rid of it. It makes the college game worse. At least some of the academic cheating would probably disappear if you just let the athletes that want to go pro, go pro.

The NBA has very little control over this. It's on the NBA players union. Paying members of the union got tired of seeing their jobs taken by snot nosed high school kids and bargained this into the labor agreement and bought themselves one more year of fat ass NBA contracts. It does benefit the NBA teams though as they at least get to see how these kids perform against better competition at the college level for one season.

The NCAA has offset the One-N-Done recently by adding the liberalized transfer rules. Teams can now add older and more physically and emotionally mature players instead of taking a one year gamble on a HS kid that may or may not add anything to the program. As a Baylor fan I have seen how Scott Drew has stopped chasing the One and Dones and has started hitting the transfer portal hard and heavy. It has elevated his program to the upper echelon of college basketball. In other words he stopped waisting time and effort on kids he was seldom getting and is now bringing in proven assets.

 

[lostsheep]

Wish my bosses would impose the same deadlines on me that the NCAA imposes on their employees.