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<blockquote data-quote="FeelYourPaign" data-source="post: 1539580" data-attributes="member: 8127"><p>From that story, here is the best summary of the environment that I've read.</p><p>Simple, logical straightforward</p><p></p><p>"The bottom line is, there is simply no way to succeed under the idiotic NCAA system of indentured servitude without paying players. <a href="https://apocalypsesports.net/rip-don-shula-and-may-the-ncaa-be-next/" target="_blank">The logic is simple</a>: As of 2018, this is a billion-dollar industry, and profits depend on success, and success depends on having the best players in the revenue-generating sports, football and basketball. Since you can't pay those players the normal way, due to the NCAA's use of amateurism, you have to compete for them somehow, and you know what the best way to lure players is, in the absence of clean money? Dirty money! It's inevitable—it's the system the NCAA set up. "</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FeelYourPaign, post: 1539580, member: 8127"] From that story, here is the best summary of the environment that I've read. Simple, logical straightforward "The bottom line is, there is simply no way to succeed under the idiotic NCAA system of indentured servitude without paying players. [URL='https://apocalypsesports.net/rip-don-shula-and-may-the-ncaa-be-next/']The logic is simple[/URL]: As of 2018, this is a billion-dollar industry, and profits depend on success, and success depends on having the best players in the revenue-generating sports, football and basketball. Since you can't pay those players the normal way, due to the NCAA's use of amateurism, you have to compete for them somehow, and you know what the best way to lure players is, in the absence of clean money? Dirty money! It's inevitable—it's the system the NCAA set up. " [/QUOTE]
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