If the National Collegiate Athletic Association was a basketball team, it would be the Washington Generals, the perennial doormat of the Harlem Globetrotters.
The Generals once lost 2,495 straight games to the Globetrotters and after Monday’s unanimous Supreme Court ruling went against the NCAA as it pertains to Division I universities buying laptops – among other things – for athletes, it would seem at least somewhat possible that inept NCAA president Mark Emmert and his misguided minions could pile up at least that many consecutive defeats moving forward.
What’s that line about the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over while expecting a different result?
That’s the NCAA. It keeps attempting to embrace its sham-ateurism model from the 1950s and ’60s and ’70s despite almost every case it’s had to defend in court going against it. Moreover, the court of public opinion has turned on it as well.
A nationwide Cygnal survey conducted in early May found that 58 percent of those questioned favored athletes being paid in some form or fashion.