College Sports Being Ruined By Scandals

By:Kevin Jones. 5/31/2011. 11:22 AM

There’s one consistent theme at every university in America: cheating. I recently graduated from college so I would know better than most sports writers. There are kids who obtain a test a professor gave last semester. There is daily hazing in both fraternities and sororities. 75 percent of the students who consume alcohol are under 21 years of age. And drug use is rampant and daily among college students.

College is all about rules, or rather, all about breaking the rules. Kids get a high off of doing stuff they aren’t supposed to be doing. That’s why I will continue to disrespect the NCAA and that’s why student athletes SHOULD continue to disrespect NCAA. The more rules you impose, the more kids are going to want to break them.

ESPN columnist Gene Wojciechowski put it perfectly in his article Blow up the NCAA; it can't keep up with cheaters. It’s impossible for the NCAA to regulate 120 college football teams and 345 college basketball teams. Physically impossible.

If you think paying college athletes would be bad for the integrity of the sport, you need slap yourself upside the head with a frying pan. NOT LEGALLY PAYING ATHLETES IS RUINING COLLEGE SPORTS. The longer you and the NCAA keep denying that players shouldn’t get paid means the longer and more harsh these ridiculous punishments are going to get. People can’t even talk about college sports these days without mentioning scandal.

College football is much worse off than college basketball. Two of the nation’s most storied programs – Ohio State and USC – are now forced to play meaningless football because they paid certain players, something that is going on at every top 50 program in the country. Money equates success in our American society. It is un-American to say that these players are wrong for taking things that they’ve earned, through entertaining millions and better yet, making millions for their respective universities. These guys are on SportsCenter and ESPN just as much as the pros.  

I don’t even want to dive into the specifics of the latest Ohio State controversy. It’s pointless. Whatever the allegations are, I guarantee it has happened at 20 different universities over the past five years. So everyone at Auburn and Texas kept their mouths shut, so they are rewarded by staying out of trouble. Literally every college coach in the country is a liar.

Something drastic has to change with the NCAA, or its public image will be brought down by people like me, who see right through the bull sh*t it has become.

Bold Prediction: The government will intervene into the NCAA, take down the BCS and create college sports equality by the year 2016.