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Message: [QUOTE="champs99and04, post: 2627126, member: 488"] Even if we were to assume for a second that an organization currently being investigated by the FBI (and that's what it's about, regardless of whatever front is being sold to the public now) is doing everything on the up-and-up, the problem with the terminology of the contract is still the conflict of interest it presents. The verbiage provides real, monetary incentive to the school to self-report if not outright create violations that the head coach could be liable for. That places not only the worker at risk but the customer (fan) as well, since the ability to re-solidify a previous revenue stream (get out of the buyout and find a winning coach) is being prioritized over the reputation of the school (whatever the impending results of the investigation are). People aren't making the connections. The NCAA does not discriminate in their exploitation and neither do the schools. Otherwise, the NCAA would have been gone a long time ago. Whereas the NCAA sees Marcus Camby driving a nice car and plots to re-locate the profits of the UMass head coach to a new area code, they work tirelessly to uphold the pretense of nobility and prestige that play into the branding of UNC and Duke. The NCAA rulebook was not written with the intentions of preserving business, it was written [I]to be the business. [/I]They use moralistic rhetoric to distract fans from the reality of the sham while creating infighting amongst them. I'm as guilty as anyone but they've pushed a bit too far with this newest trick. The problem is that I saw this coming. I saw it coming like an airplane out of the horizon. We needed to fire the coach and we couldn't because we couldn't pay the buyout. Then miraculously in January after it's long been clear the season is over, this drops from the sky...and I haven't been able to shake the queasy feeling in my stomach since because everything has gone down exactly the way I thought it would. We'll see what happens. I certainly don't have all the facts. Maybe KO screwed himself and that's life. But on a basic level, when the fans have incentive for something to happen, and so does the school, and so does the NCAA, and so does ESPN...you're putting together a pretty lousy picture of how this stuff works. [/QUOTE]

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