The frenzy over the NCAA Basketball Tournament is simply ridiculous and largely hype. The sport is seriously overrated in the media and the minds of many. The quality of play and lack of fundamentals demonstrated in the sport is simply pathetic. The vast majority of the players are not worthy of being college students and largely being used for their schools and conferences to make money without a care about what happens to these young men. Check the graduation rates at most of the higher profile schools as well as the ones that are largely unheard of as well and you will discover that more than half of the basketball players will never graduate, and often it is substantially less. Scholarships for these athletes should be required to be continued until the student does graduate. That would strongly encourage schools to give scholarships to players who really are student-athletes instead of saps and wannabes only dreaming of professional money with no intention of taking advantage of their educational opportunities. Guys who want to be pro basketball players should be in the NBA minor league, the NBDL, instead of college. A similar minor league needs to be in place for the NFL rather than the taxpayer subsidized entity that trains,conditions, and orients their future players. And the federal government should mandate a federal professional player privilege license for all professional athletes in the four major sports as well as auto racing, tennis, golf, and other major sports nationally that would also include the mandatory earning of a four year college bachelors degree from an accredited university that is a member of the NCAA or one of its smaller brethern. This is but one way to end the scam and corruption of major college sports such as football and mens college basketball.http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2007/11/student_athletes.cfm
http://www.blackathlete.com/Blackbox/specialreport4.html
http://books.google.com/books?id=hA0zwgX0VCAC&pg=RA1-PA345&lpg=RA1-PA345&dq=sham+of+%22student+athletes%22+&source=web&ots=EnsOahSW9x&sig=9FmCLAixBcvKXmubYBmA6Ytu9a4&hl=en#PPA15,M1
http://www.allamericanfootballleague.com/FixingCollegeFootballArticle.php
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