For anyone interested in the future of college basketball, The Scheme is a must-watch. HBO describes it as a “no-holds-barred tale of Christian Dawkins.” It is hard to understand how the NCAA and major Division 1 basketball conferences can recover from what is portrayed in the documentary.
As many fans of college sports understand, there has been cheating for at least 100 years. The Eastern teams that later became the Ivy League were concerned about widespread rules-breaking. Trying to understand how corrupt the world of college basketball is today requires looking back to the 1980s.