Clarett - do you blame the NCAA?

onlydarksets · 01-03-2006, 09:10 AM

He stuck up two people in an alley with a gun:
http://www.sportsline.com/collegefootball/story/9138326

My question - do you blame the NCAA at all for this? I don't mean is it their fault that he (allegedly) pointed a gun at somebody. I mean, is the NCAA blindly naive in thinking that college football is not a money game? Are college football players exploited?

Yeah, they get a free ride, but it's a lot of work and expectations on the players. Then, the NCAA throws a 500 page rulebook on top of that, saying that the kids can't take a couple hundred dollars a week, while the schools charge $45/seat, pay their coach $500,000 a year, and the school gets $2 million for going to a bowl game.

Clarett is an outlier, granted, but is this a bigger problem than just Clarett?

01-03-2006, 09:10 AM	#1
onlydarksets Playmaker Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: all up in your business Posts: 2,693	Clarett - do you blame the NCAA? He stuck up two people in an alley with a gun: http://www.sportsline.com/collegefootball/story/9138326 My question - do you blame the NCAA at all for this? I don't mean is it their fault that he (allegedly) pointed a gun at somebody. I mean, is the NCAA blindly naive in thinking that college football is not a money game? Are college football players exploited? Yeah, they get a free ride, but it's a lot of work and expectations on the players. Then, the NCAA throws a 500 page rulebook on top of that, saying that the kids can't take a couple hundred dollars a week, while the schools charge $45/seat, pay their coach $500,000 a year, and the school gets $2 million for going to a bowl game. Clarett is an outlier, granted, but is this a bigger problem than just Clarett?

Clarett - do you blame the NCAA?

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