The End of the NCAA

calamity said:

At least in men's basketball.

FBI docs show top NCAA hoops programs, players involved in probe - NY Daily News

North Carolina, Kansas, Kentucky...you name the school, they are waste deep in pig ****. The NBA is getting a black eye from it too.

Watch the NBA begin their own farm system as early as next year. The marriage between the league and the cesspool which is college sports is about to come to an end.

High school studs will go directly to the NBA academy, and from there the G-league. Expect major sponsors to get on board. And, expect big money to be made promoting these AAU kids the minute they finish High School.

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I don't know if you remember, but there was a time when a kid who went to college had to stay there for four years before he could be drafted by the NBA. There were none of this one and done stuff. Even if a kid dropped out of college early, the NBA had rules about no drafting him until his college eligibility was done or over with.

One of the reasons the pros use colleges as their minor leagues is it cost them nothing. That is the case in both basketball and football. It's hard for me to fathom the NBA setting up a farm system like baseball. Perhaps in conjunction with the AAU might be feasible. So too is paying the players something. But I don't think the NCAA or colleges want to go there. If you start paying mens basketball and football players. Soon there would be a ton of lawsuits for the womens teams, other sports, volleyball, golf, baseball, track and field, softball, tennis, you name it for them to get paid also. I'm pretty sure that would add up to a ton of cash.

It also might lead to the colleges dropping the non-revenuing producing sports. But these scandals have happened in the past and after awhile they blow over and everything returns to the same old, same old.