Scandals and multi million dollar coaching contracts make for attention-getting headlines and stories. However, the core of the issue surrounding the tax-exempt status of the NCAA cartel and so-called ’student-athletes,’ is this: lacking tangible and verifiable evidence, the government must presently take the word of school administrators that athletes are really students on track to receive a bona fide, rather than a “pretend” college education. Course tracks for athletes that must pretend to be students are usually engineered by academic support center staff members who work at the behest of the school’s athletic department. This is a surefire recipe for academic corruption since the primary motivation for the athletic department is not education, but winning and revenue generation.
