Fascinating article, but incomplete.  Colleges sold their souls to sports and the money it brings long ago, all built on the backs of unpaid players.  It is very hard to see football and basketball teams stocked with young, poor African-American men playing only for room and board and not think of this country's history of slavery.And it is nauseating to hear the likes of Mack Brown (annual salary 5 million before endorsements, radio/TV shows, camps, shoe money), Hubert Davis (annual salary 400,000, plus 250,000 from Nike, plus 500,000 from Learfiled sports) or even the athletic director, Cunningham (815,000 salary plus bonuses) suggest that the problem in the unholy pit of greed they have created and wallowed in for so long is that the actual players, the ones who do the work, can now earn some money on the side.  Those people, and their greed created the mess and now the chickens have come home to roost.  The real tragedy is the stain on the universities.   The sooner they spin off, sell off, or blow up their big money sports programs, the better.

Fascinating article, but incomplete.  Colleges sold their souls to sports and the money it brings long ago, all built on the backs of unpaid players.  It is very hard to see football and basketball teams stocked with young, poor African-American men playing only for room and board and not think of this country's history of slavery.And it is nauseating to hear the likes of Mack Brown (annual salary 5 million before endorsements, radio/TV shows, camps, shoe money), Hubert Davis (annual salary 400,000, plus 250,000 from Nike, plus 500,000 from Learfiled sports) or even the athletic director, Cunningham (815,000 salary plus bonuses) suggest that the problem in the unholy pit of greed they have created and wallowed in for so long is that the actual players, the ones who do the work, can now earn some money on the side.  Those people, and their greed created the mess and now the chickens have come home to roost.  The real tragedy is the stain on the universities.   The sooner they spin off, sell off, or blow up their big money sports programs, the better.

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