The Memphis men's basketball program has been charged by the NCAA with major violations during the 2007-08 season under former coach John Calipari. Reigning NBA Rookie of the Year Derrick Rose is at the center of alleged violations at Memphis.
I think it's time to end the sham that is NCAA basketball once and for all.
To begin with, the NBA's age restriction is ridiculous, and probably unconstitutional.
Moreover, it seriously compromises the integrity of the NCAA.
When you're 18-years-old, you're old enough to join the armed services, go overseas, and fight in a war, at great risk to your life and health.
If you're an 18-year-old computer prodigy, there's nothing preventing Google or Microsoft from hiring you right out of high school.
But if you're 18 and extremely gifted in basketball, you can't compete for a spot on an NBA roster.
Well, how's that fair?
So you have these kids who come to college for no other purpose but to get old enough to qualify for the NBA.
And it's a joke to think these "one-and-done" kids have any interest in getting an education.
To call them student-athletes is the greatest of oxymorons.
They already know how they're going to try to make a living. They've poured their lives into developing their basketball skills.
What's going on these days is making a mockery of college basketball.
The NCAA should fine itself, and the NBA, not the teams, players, and coaches just trying to make the best of the screwed-up system they've been sentenced to.