re: When will someone put the smackdown on the NCAA?

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Yes they can. They can bring back the athletic dorms along with all other necessities that a young man or woman athlete/student needs in order to be just that an athlete-student for the university(training table etc.). It would at least centralize everything and bullshite situations like this one might at least be reduced. Oh but some liberal tree huggin academiac thinks that is showing preferential treatment. Nevermind the fact that 80% of their time is owned by the university and millions of dollars are made many of which go to each universities general fund and more importantly pay these pricks salaries so they can spend their time justifying themselves undergoing investigations like this.

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it's a thought. to me, that's throwing the baby out with the bathwater but by alleviating a segment of ametuer sports and making it pro what will happen? i'm a saints fan and they don't have all of these rules. but i went to college at LSU and, to me, the university is the reason why the football team exists not the reverse. my personal opinion is that we keep it as ameteur as possible but i would still be a fan of LSU's semi-pro football team. in my day, there were athletic dorms and the athletes got $25 per week "laundry money" (about $250/week today) and they got 6 tickets to each home game to supposedly to give to their parents and friends but many were sold for xtra spending money. and then they had "summer jobs", some which were real jobs and some which were play jobs. now, the athlete gets none of that. it may be possible to work some in the summer but football is basically year round. therefore, i'm not at all opposed to providing spending money , HOWEVER, nowdays the same amount would have to be provided to ALL ATHLETES; male, female, track, volleyball, lacrosse, etc. most schools could not afford this so they would cut non-revenue sports and therefore cut scholarships down to the bone. i wish there was a way that all college athletes could get spending money included in their scholarship, at least a reasonable amount. it would not put much of a dent in the cheating though; some people would always want more and some alumni would always want them to have more.

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