“Why not run all NCAA sports them farm tea businesses that they are?”
Good question. I was flamed earlier for merely suggesting that the NCAA be scrapped and to return to “club sports” intramurally, for all to enjoy. Archery, bowling, darts, baseball, soccer, flag football, tennis, golf, hiking etc... Something for everyone to enjoy and possibly develop a life-sport.
The NCAA is a farm system sans pay feeding the entertainment industry that is commonly referred to as professional sports. The only entities making money from the NCAA strangle - hold on collegiate sports are both the NCAA, the schools, and the broadcast networks. Which calls into question as to how much money and the percentages to each.
“Archery, bowling, darts, baseball, soccer, flag football, tennis, golf, hiking etc... Something for everyone to enjoy and possibly develop a life-sport.”
I don’t agree that varsity athletics should be abolished. Reformed, perhaps, to channel the money in better directions, but not abolished.
That said, in your list you omitted the most difficult, most demanding, most rewarding sport of all: fencing.
Fencing will never be popular again in this country, though. If you’re watching fencers who are significantly better than you are yourself, you just can’t see what they’re doing.