Why Are We Not Talking About College Football Being Corrupt The Way We Are College Basketball?

Before people get bored reading this and yell about college football, this isn’t an anti-college football blog. This is a stupidity from people and the NCAA blog. Simply put, why aren’t we talking about college football the way we are about college basketball from a corruption level?

Ever since the FBI investigation came into our worlds just about a year ago, we’ve heard how corrupt college basketball is. We’ve had commissions joined left and right to try and fix the game. We’ve seen the NCAA try and make drastic changes. We’ve seen the NCAA point their fingers at the NBA and AAU programs (still pisses me off to this day). Why aren’t we talking about the NCAA as a whole? Why aren’t we talking about the NFL and college football?

Are we really going to pretend that college football is clean compared to college basketball? I mean there have been investigations into players accepting money left and right. SMU, a one-time prominent football program was on the death penalty. How come when we hear about a college football player accepting money, there’s not a push for the NFL to change their draft rules? How come when we hear about a college football player accepting money, there aren’t commissions on the sport? I mean, college football is the bread and butter here for the majority of schools in America.

I think the biggest reason here is the NCAA can’t blame other people. There’s not an AAU circuit in football like we have at football, so the NCAA doesn’t have that scapegoat. People just agree that the NFL is too tough for people to play in a year after college unlike the NBA from a physical standpoint, so the NCAA can’t blame them. It’s the perfect recipe for the NCAA. Bring in money, sweep everything under the rug and point at basketball as the dirty sport.

That’s ultimately the problem here. The NCAA continues to refuse to look at themselves as the problem. They refuse to look at the defining role of amateurism and updating the rule book from the 1950s. It’s a shame too, because instead of being a better organization, they are pointing the blame elsewhere. Why not have the same rules for all of sports (outside of draft rules, since those are pro rules)? It just makes too much sense I guess.