College Sports and Money
College Sports and Money
By: Gary Edwards
I don’t want to talk about the FBI’s investigation into college basketball. Everyone seems to be so surprised and shocked about $100,000 payments to recruits, but impermissible benefits to
five-star recruits have been going on since our universities decided to dance with the revenue producing devil.
Did you know the United States is the only country in the world that sponsors big-time sports at its institutions of higher learning? Perhaps the rest of the world understands it is like mixing oil
and water; you can try to do it but it doesn’t work very well.
College presidents, please spare me the mock indignation. You and your institutions sold your souls long ago to the television networks and shoe companies.
You decided to tak...