Is the NCAA running anything but a legal sweat shop?
We will have a winner this week, ending March Madness, but the winners aren’t likely to be the players.
Maybe a handful of young men will go on and get a big payday in professional sports. But they will be the exception. Most will go on to more normal lives out of the limelight, and the memory of having played in a tournament final in a nearly 80,000 seat arena will be the high point of their lives.
But the players knew their role in this operation. They just made millions for the NCAA, the networks, and everyone else with a finger on the pie. Yet, there was not a crumb for the “amateurs.”
Let’s hope the kids were at least able to keep the lousy shirts on their sweaty backs.
And that’s the truth about big-time college sports. You got the exploited, and your willing exploiters.
Disgusting right?
