Promote This Connecticut Senator To President After He Blasts The NCAA And Says To Pay Players

[NBC Sports] - “The NCAA is broken,” Murphy said in a statement sent to NBC Sports on Thursday morning. “I am a big college sports fan, but I think most fans recognize that the NCAA today isn’t acting in the best interest of many student-athletes. College basketball and football have become a multi-billion dollar industry where everyone’s getting rich except the students actually doing the work. Frankly, it’s a civil rights issue that no one is talking about. That’s why I’m speaking out.

I’ve said it before. I don’t give a shit about politics. Not for me. Not worth me talking about. What I do give a shit about is this political platform though. Calling out the NCAA and calling for the players to receive compensation on top of the scholarships is the platform that can get me interested.

I can’t stress how much this needs to be the way it is. I’ve said it multiples times but it’s worth continuing to bring up. The schools pay the players enough. They don’t have to pay anything extra. Just let the players make money off of their name, likeness and image. Let the free market dictate how much they are worth.

Let me reiterate that again since people tend to skip over it a bit. The schools pay the players enough. Their contract is the scholarship and everything that comes along with it. What isn’t paid enough is name, likeness and image. That’s not a school thing. Let the free market decide what a player is worth on top of a scholarship. For some it will be hundreds of thousand of dollars. For some it will be tens of dollars. That’s the beauty of the free market here.

Let’s just make it happen already. Again, we cheer for laundry. We cheer because someone is wearing Kentucky blue, Carolina blue, Indiana red, whatever. We don’t care who that person is or if they received any money.

That’s the part of the argument I never really understood. Why do we care if someone makes money because they are talented? It’s the only time we actually care about someone being paid. College sports. Or really sports in general. It’s a weird dynamic.

I’m glad we’re seeing more and more politicians bring it up. I mean if we’re going to have Condi Rice come up with ways to ‘fix’ college basketball, surely we won’t be mad about politicians ‘fixing’ the NCAA, right?