I might have sympathy for the NCAA if this was some time like 110 years ago and collegiate sports where something that was actually amateur, if coaching staffs didn't make millions of dollars, and if it wasn't a big business enterprise that raked in millions off of television deals and merchandise. Now it's a de facto cartel that exploits a virtual monopoly for anybody that seriously wants to go into professional men’s basketball or football, whether the players want to go to college or not, and that makes billions of a premise that's entirely a sham and everybody knows it. It ends up paying the group of people that are most instrumental in it's success nothing for what they do. Well ends up paying them nothing other than a scholarship whether the players actually wanted that or not, whether it actually cost the place of higher education that give it to them much at all, or if a players services in that sport are worth much more than said scholarship if he could have actually be paid as if the sport was a free market system.
That's just the stuff in the rules, and not all the shady things that institutions and their staffs do all the time that are against even their own rules.
Don't forget that if somebody gets hurt, because lets face it those sports aren't exactly safe for ones health, the place they played for isn't exactly going to be there for them the rest of their lives.
Given all that and more I can't really blame the players that take money on the side. If I was a big time player and I thought I could get away with it I would do so the way things are now. I'm even somebody that cares about the integrity of a sport, but you can't hurt what doesn't exist in the first place.
