NCAA President Mark EmmertNCAA president Mark Emmert is in denial. There’s just no other way to explain the following statement he gave Monday at the same time he told a gathering at Marquette that virtually no university president thinks it’s a good idea to turn student-athletes into paid employees.
Said Emmert in response to the notion that big schools and small schools are struggling to find common ground on a number of topics large and small:
“They’re having a real hard time finding common interests.”
Really? If almost no university president wants to pay athletes, how can they not find common interests?
On the other hand, how can almost no university president want to pay athletes when Emmert also declared, “[There’s] enormous tension right now that’s growing between the collegiate model and the commercial model. That tension has been going on forever and ever. It has gotten greater now because the magnitude of dollars has gotten really, really large”?