- September 29th, 2017, 9:58 am
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Of course the NCAA has known about the shoe company money game, but what has been the incentive for them to stop it? The shoe companies provide all of the gear/uniforms/equipment, not only for basketball, but for just about every NCAA sport...you think these schools want to pay out of pocket for those items? And even if they cared to stop it, they can't wire-tap or investigate to the level that the FBI can...the NCAA has to wait for someone to slip up openly (or get snitched on by somebody else)...the FBI has more effective methods at their disposal.
And the NBA/thug association makes no sense to me...If you're talking about off the court, when's the last time there's been an NBA player in the news for something bad off the court (I guess maybe Zach Randolph's recent weed possession is one, but compared to the domestic violence issues that have come up in the NFL and MLB in recent years, the NBA seems pretty 'clean' in comparison)? I'm struggling to think of many in recent years. And if you're talking about on the court, isn't one of the criticisms of the NBA now is that it isn't as 'tough' as it used to be, and that the fouls aren't as hard, etc? I mean, who could you even legitimately label as a thug in the league at this point? I'm not going to say that anyone has to like the NBA, but thinking it is the same league as the one from the late 90s (when there were some problems) is very much out of touch from reality.