College Athletics Is Professional Sports
From The New York Times--William C. Rhoden
In the bizarre, Alice-in-Wonderland world of the N.C.A.A., where up is often down, athletes are told that they are “regular students” but are treated as anything but. They are commodities who facilitate a semiprofessional on-campus entertainment industry. Through lucrative television contracts and sponsor partnerships, football and basketball finance the N.C.A.A. headquarters and an enforcement staff that polices overzealous coaches and keeps players in their place.
Nothing that we do not know---just something that we do not want to acknowledge. Both football and basketball do not have minor leagues systems like baseball. Their (football and basketball) minor league system is college. And right behind it high school.
