The one and done situation almost ruined college basketball for me, with the huge turnover in top teams’ personnel every year. Now this further diminishes my already diminished interest in the sport.
And this story contains further evidence that almost no communication is ever confidential any more.
Will anything be done in the current scandal? Who knows. North Carolina should have received the death penalty (and forfeited all its championships) due to the Dean Smith era revelations, but .... The current scandal apparently involves both North Carolina and Duke. I have no doubt that the NCAA would enforce sanctions against, say, Louisville, but clearly there's a double standard involving some teams.
But the bigger underlying truth is that the whole system is rotten. I'm not naïve enough to think that college sports didn't always have a shabby underside, but I think it was the slow but steadily growing addiction to television dollars that has finally done them in. Television seems to corrupt everything it touches. When a sport starts prostituting its rules to defer to television networks, it's on the path to perdition.
Well said.