more howgash from the hyper-hypocrites that run the ncaa. they can talk all they want about "committment" on the part of the STUDENT-athletes, but we all know that college athletics is now a multi-billion dollar business, and fat-cat coaches and administrators are making millions off the sweat and athletic talent of their indentured slaves, the STUDENT-athletes. the reason they keep stressing STUDENT-athletes is that many of them are not students in anybody's wildest imagination, but rather future pros working their way through the college farm system, with no intention of ever getting a degree. kentucky is the worst offender, but even the graduation rates at cal-berkeley were so pathetic they finally were forced to oust an otherwise competent athletic director once the statistics became too embarrassing.
or how about "committment" on the part of the coaches? they're free-agents, free to take a better job at higher pay with no "committment" to the kids they recruited, or the university is free to fire them with no committment beyond the goal of a winning, money-making program. coaches can yank a scholarship the minute a better kid comes into the program, or that cover corner doesn't perform the way his high school clippings predicted. or how about the coach that promises a kid a scholarship, but pulls it at the last second when a better prospect signs on. i'm willing to wager there are far more incidents of a coach breaking a committment to a player, than vise versa. of course, every time a player breaks a committment, a coach like rob ash has the bully pulpit from which to sermonize, while the kids are just left hanging with no voice beyone their own family.
