The NCAA’s use of the phony collegiate model and ’student-athlete’ term to defend their tax-exempt programs and modus operandi has served the NCAA well in the past, but at great cost to America’s institutions of higher education. This model and terminology have, to various degrees, spawned a culture of academic corruption in colleges and universities supporting big-time football and basketball programs – contributing in large measure to America’s educational shame of today and to its potential lack of competitiveness in the expanding technology-based global economy of tomorrow..
