By Christopher B. Daly
For a couple of years now, I have been urging the abolition of the NCAA. Not reform, but the outright dismantling of an organization that is deeply corrupt and brings no good to America’s college campuses.
In addition to the facts and arguments in previous posts, here is more evidence. Boston Globe Derrick Z. Jackson has been keeping track of how many big-time NCAA players actually get the one thing that going to college might do that would benefit them for the rest of their adult lives — getting a bachelor’s degree.
The sad fact is, most NCAA basketball players do not graduate with a diploma. Big-time college basketball operates pretty much as a minor league for the NBA with teams that just happen to be located on college campuses.
Here is Jackson’s latest report card on college graduation rates for the NCAA’s elite basketball players. Some lowlights:
–UCLA: 20% (for black players)
–Carolina: 40%
–Kentucky 60% (for black players)
In the classroom, those are failing grades.
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