JIM

Thanks for sharing this absolutely riveting story.

As some of you know, I do not automatically condemn corporate donations to an academic program.  In fact, I would love to augment the corporate scholarship program I've tried to begin for the Music Industry program.

The story you've shared about college sports, however, contains some clear description of wrongdoing on the part of some sports organizations, and perhaps on the part of some colleges and universities.  I was interested to see that the reporter, while sharing facts, also showed clear bias in his own point of view. I do not see the need, for example, to describe one of the early NCAA directors as a person who, "wore cowboy boots and a toupee. He shunned personal contact, obsessed over details, and proved himself a bureaucratic master of pervasive, anonymous intimidation. Although discharged from the Army during World War II for defective vision, Byers was able to see an opportunity in two contemporaneous scandals. "  The NCAA director may have been unattractive, but I don't understand how that increases or decreases NCAA culpability.