Powerless?

Where do I start...the NCAA has been losing it's power for some time now...and with the Universities and Colleges running amok where ever they want, is just the tip of the ice berg...
Nebraska has got the ball rolling...bolting to the Big Ten, or whatever it will be called soon....and all, I repeat all, of their former members of the Big 12 will scatter...and who's to stop them?  The NCAA?  The usual reasoning is the TV money that is out there which drives all these schools this way and that...Notre Dame is next, then it is Texas...and the realignment is on the docket...
But, it's not the NCAA that is driving this car...it's the schools itself and their presidents...there are no checks and balances...the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer...
Penalties...the latest USC sanctions and all leave me furious...this pattern has been going on for 20 some years...the school cheats, most all of them, the NCAA investigative team arrives (6 to 30 of them), they find some improprieties, they take away scholarships, they take away bowl eligibility, the coach bolts....who doesn't get hurt by this?  The coach...he will surface some place else and start his cycle all over again...follow the trail of some of these guys...
Solution?  Once the moving dust has all settled...the schools must put together a governing body that has teeth...make any movement a 51% approval vote by it's members...get some semblance of order back...
C'mon colleges and universities, you're supposed to be of higher learning...
not higher earning...

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