NCAA: “The Pimp Game”

This just in! College students who come from low income neighborhoods and have poor families are accepting money and financial gifts! “These young men and women are clearly a disgrace to their athletic program”. I mean sure these same schools make millions of dollars in revenue off of these players, and only a handful of them actually make it to the professional leagues to cash in, but tradition is tradition, and these old boys are wrong.

Am I the only one that finds this mind set completely ridiculous? Are we really upset that these college athletes want a piece of the pie? Let’s be honest, if you were the driving force behind the financial success of your organization, and everyone else was getting paid except for you, would you hesitate to take a little money from the side? I didn’t think so.

If you don’t want college athletes to take money, the way to stop it is very simple… PAY THEM! Call it a stipend, call it work study, hey if you want call it additional financial aid, but stop calling these kids unethical, and start paying them.

For many of these kids, when they go back home their financial situation is not the best, money is scarce and bills are high, so if someone offers them a chance to alleviate some of that stress from them and their family, nine times out of ten the will take that offer, and to be quite frank they should.

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To make matters worse instead of being honest with these students and trying to help, the sports nation ostracizes them, and in some case’s even black ball the same men and women who made their program so successful in the first place.

Trust me, there would be no Bob Huggins, or Mike Krzyzewski if it were not for the Kenyan Martin’s, Jason Williams, and Carlos Boozer. There is no College Football without the Michael Irving’s, Reggie Bushes and Matt Leinart’s. So when do we stop lying to ourselves, lying to these athletes, and admit that the NCAA is the biggest thief of them all.