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Here’s a short thread on NCAA investigations and why they’re nothing but malarkey:
I’ve covered and had good relationships with a handful of coaches who the NCAA investigated. Not a single solitary one of them denied the charges in our conversations. Why? Because paying players is a well known, accepted reality of college sports.
Paying players (ie breaking all kinds of NCAA rules) is only “salacious” because the NCAA won’t let athletes make $$$. Every single program does it. Every one. So coaches are having their lives ruined not for paying players but for leaving a paper trail (unless you’re Will Wade).
Which gets back to what every single coach said to me. There wasn’t a denial of the accusations; rather, they denied the NCAA had credible evidence. All of them had this in common despite spanning multiple sports. Paying players is reality.
And the amount of time/energy/$$$ we waste trying to hide it is outrageous. And the amount of time/energy/$$$ the NCAA puts into investigating the very thing it perpetuates, all to maintain the illusion of amateurism, is abhorrent.
It’s Kabuki theatre. It’s all a fraud. All of it. No one cares about following NCAA rules not even the NCAA - all parties just want/need plausible deniability. That’s it.
