What the Auburn/Cam Situation Taught All Of Us

The whole thing is corrupt and if your team is any good at all in a major college sport, it’s corrupt. And no one cares unless you have a smoking gun and can use a school as an example to pretend this is still amateur athletics. Will Wade is guilty of being stupid.

As for paying players, whether it is proven or not, I’m sure he does. I’m sure every team that gets top recruits and wins also pays players. Football and basketball. And if you think otherwise, you’re a fool.

College sports is a multi-Billion dollar business that only exists because it keeps the facade of amateur athletics going. Once this whole thing crumbles and it’s obvious to the whole world players are getting paid everywhere, it all starts to fall apart. And, no one is paying the money they pay to watch a second rate developmental league.

Everyone needs to wake up. I was late to the game and finally realized it with Auburn/Cam. But, whatever. We’re all complicit. If you cheer for your team, you’re helping to enable this and going along with the lie. Whatever. I don’t care. Have fun. But, the outrage machine that was employed in this situation to keep the facade going really is comical. And, we all help it along.

We’re all sheep while the universities, networks, shoe companies, and pro leagues bilk us all and keep the pipeline of poor players flowing into the system.

It’s fine. Just know what it is. They won’t take down UNC, Kansas, Duke, Indiana, Kentucky, etc because they need them to make the money. It’s easy to make an example out of LSU in basketball and Ole Miss in football because it doesn’t mess up the game and it keeps the allusion of amateur sports going so they can keep the money flowing.

That’s the reality and we all know it, but don’t want to admit it because we like the illusion.