Dear Condoleezza Rice: Good luck fixing the cesspool that is the NCAA

[Greenrex]

"When the FBI revealed its findings about the corrupt connections among shoe companies, agents, a few big-time college programs and coaches, and the Amateur Athletic Union or AAU (the first “A” increasingly looks like a misnomer), no one near the sport was shocked."

The article:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dear-condoleezza-rice-good-luck-fixing-the-cesspool-that-is-the-ncaa/2018/02/01/b0c4ca44-06db-11e8-b48c-b07fea957bd5_story.html?utm_term=.c3b9b02f6d37&wpisrc=nl_opinions&wpmm=1

 

[greenminer]

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The current arrangement works out beautifully for the league: It gets a free minor league player development system, a massively televised showcase for its next round of stars, and one less argument with a players union that prefers to limit, through its ineligible-until-age-19 rule, the number of competitors for the few hundred NBA roster spots. 

I'll take this a step further: does paying college football players effectively create the same thing for the NFL, a minor league player development system?

Edited February 2, 2018 by greenminer