"only"....
the NCAA is out of control and is in cohoots with the media to bring in big money....that is not my fault...its the greed of the academia/media cabal....
the athletes need not play in college....they can go directly to some pro sports team...and suffer the consequences of no education, no training, no coaching up....
and if TPTB decide that they must pay athletes, they better be paying for the lacrosse team and the fencing team....
its not the fault of lacrosse nor fencing that they don't bring in big money..
Moses Malone did.
That was my first thought as well. My second thought is this: There might be a point in there somewhere, given how worthless a liberal college education is these days.
Only partly correct. Players do not have to go to college but they can no longer go directly to the NBA or NFL. The NBA requires players to be out of high school for a year before being eligible for the draft. For the NFL it is 3 years.