NCAA Bribery

It's not a surprise the NCAA is a corrupt group. What they view as good and bad is a joke at times and you wonder how they an be inconsistent. This will probably be something that is talked about from now until April next year. A handful of assistant coaches and an Adidas executive have been charged with corruption and a couple other charges such as fraud. This is a federal thing as the FBI is involved and questions will have to be answered.

Out of the teams involved include Louisville, who have just fired Rick Pitino, the college basketball coach. That team was in serious trouble for their sex scandal. This could kill their program. Other teams include Alabama, Arizona, Auburn, Oklahoma State and Southern California. Basically, what Adidas wanted to do as the articles are reporting is getting kids to take money for deals and go to a specific college and help the basketball team win.

This is in a long line of incidents throughout college sports, whether good intentions or not. The NCAA can keep putting in sanctions and what not, but it's not going to stop. I think this is going to be a really bad black eye and it's going to hurt college basketball, both guys and girls. Something has to change. What needs to be done, I don't know. If the FBI and the feds want to enforce stuff, they are going to have to look at everything. From the higher ups in the NCAA organization to the teams, they need to be very thorough. Sports have been such a bigger deal in the last 30 to 40 years. Television has impacted it. Sponsors want in on the pie like Wendy's and Dr. Pepper. Money attracts a lot of things.

Unfortunately, college sports has become a corporate product. CBS, Turner Sports, and ESPN are riding on some of the same teams to stay excited for. Although the teams involved in this bribery scandal are not teams you think of for college basketball, it could leave others wondering if teams like Kentucky, Duke, and Oregon have done any of the stuff the accused are being accused of. The NCAA has a long way to go to fix its image.