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[QUOTE="DefenseBB, post: 2702391, member: 7492"]
The Universities "empower" the NCAA to govern them, not unlike the Baseball Commissioner who is employed by the 30 baseball clubs who make up MLB. The NCAA is to govern 90 sponsored sports. To do this, the revenue or "money grabbing" efforts as you put it, must fund the 85+ sports that do not make money. The revenue from the Football and Men's Basketball postseason (be it tv, tickets or sponsors) pays for the travel, costs, event locations and awards for all of these sports. 
The NCAA does have its flaws as I noted as the institutions themselves want the cash to keep coming in so to them, many of the presidents within the "power 5" protect their interests at times (and egregiously so) to not taint a "blue blood" through back room deals. Is this wrong, of course it is and is why I hope this commissions recommendations get taken seriously as the perception is bad. Change in any democracy only comes when egregious events have happened, be it Coal Miner unions, anti-trust regulation or Title IX. This effort is a good thing.
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