"At some point the
NCAA needs to drop the ‘student first, athlete second’ charade," the former Wisconsin Badgers star wrote. "Billions of dollars, NIL, transfer portal (free agency), traveling cross-country for midweek games…
"Education is not the main focus. Admit it and call it what it is. A business. Run it as such."
"That’s exactly my point," Watt added. "We’ve got kids who aren’t ‘making money’ and will never go pro, yet they are traveling across the country midweek for ‘conference games,’ transferring schools, sacrificing studies for sport, etc. None of this is about what’s doing best for the student."
The NCAA is a joke! Schools like Wisconsin have gone pro, let's just say it..........schools like Wyoming can't afford to go pro and yet they attempt to play the same game. The gap is too wide now, even if some don't like to admit it. The NCAA like it is presently constructed needs to be disbanded, and something else needs to be put in its place for the schools that can't afford to or don't want to go pro. The Super Conference can't come too soon. The worst part of this whole thing, this was started by some athletes who will get a lot of money, but it will also screw a ton of athletes who won't go pro and just want to get a good education. You have too many kids who get nothing but dollar signs in their heads and don't care about getting a good education which was evidenced by that young man who was mentioned in another article about why they like their coach, "He do pay....." This young man obviously never even visited the inside of an English grammar class. Collegiate athletics is just in a very sad state of affairs.
P.S. - When you have an outstanding collegiate coach like Tony Bennett that gets fed up and quits during the season, it should be a huge red flag. The NCAA and collegiate athletics is like a barrel of fish that has been left outside and turned into a stinking mess.