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Where to even start on the Miami scandal?  Of course it had to be coming.  There is always another one coming unless the NCAA and the schools overhaul this corrupt system.  We are trying to squeeze this square peg into a round hole, thinking we can make the system look like it did 100 years ago when athletes were just students who happened to like playing sports.

We are going to have to evolve toward a system where the players have rights and can share in the massive money being generated.  Everyone is getting rich except the players (legally).  The first step could be allowing athletes on scholarship to retain representation to look out for their interests and look for business opportunities.  Another would be to allow them to share in merchandise sales and video sales that include their names and liknesses.

I keep saying that you cannot continue to deny human nature.  We have to move toward an open system where the NCAA and the schools and bowls tone down their greed and agree to share the wealth and allow the players to have basic rights to be represented and market themselves.  Enforcing the current system will just keep creating situations like USC, Ohio St., and Miami.

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