May Finebaum be right and REM ring throughout the land... Death to the NCAA...

I had been meaning to do this post for some time, and finally seem to be getting around to it unless the weather causes the power grid to try to eat itself.

It stems from one of a shocking number of unanimous Supreme Court decisions in the last number of weeks, a unanimous decision that the NCAA's refusal to allow players to be compensated for their Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) is unconstitutional.

Paul Finebaum, a couple of days later on Mike Greenberg's ESPN show, called it no less than the REM moment of the NCAA:  "The end of the NCAA as we know it.  The last rites have not been performed, the funeral has not been performed."

Oh, for that to be the truth.

The NCAA is nothing short of a terrorist organization which not only is misogynist (as has been exposed repeatedly in major women's championships this year), but it elitist toward two (MALE) sports, and is probably the biggest cover for rape, pedophilia, sexual assault, and all manner of other misconduct which ravages the American Sports Machine.

(High school sports would be bigger in the coverup, but there's no overreaching national authority on the matter.)

The fact is, the sooner the NCAA is relegated to the dustbin of history, the better off what is left will be.

Pedophile State

Rapelor

Hell, it seems the entire Big Ten these days.

The disintegrating "Power Five"...

Hell, the fact that the NCAA itself (with FBS football largely in some sort of dysfunctional relationship with said organization) is probably hanging on by the thread of March Madness these days.  Even have March Madness move "off the grid", as it were, and that probably starts the funeral outright.

We still are at the point, IMODO, of that there could be very serious question as to the very existence of the concept of "college", especially if the Delta Variant of COVID-19 flares up in the next few months and blows up all of our progress because of the unvaccinated.

The fact is, amateur sports, as a CONCEPT, are a joke.

Most people basically know, if they pay an ounce of attention, that major high-school players -- in either of the two male major sports -- are getting paid large sums of money to play for a given college.

Hell, if you remember that drug- and gang-fueled mess in Florida, you have children paying their parents' rent by playing professional football (I'm not saying NFL, just football-for-pay) as early as about nine years old!

I could go on and on.

But if actually compensating the players in much of any amount is to end the NCAA, then I'm all for it.

The sooner, the better.

I easily see, five years down the road, a complete reorganization of what Olbermann calls "college-pro" sports into a more minor-league situation.