Let’s see here. Where to begin? Some prominent schools, KU amongst them, have been under some FBI and NCAA scrutiny in recent months. As many have stated before, the NCAA and the powers that be at the various TV consortiums need teams like KU, Duke, North Carolina, and Kentucky far more than these schools need the NCAA.
The status quo of ignoring payments (or making the member schools look like “victims”) keeps the NCAA engine running, and the idea of “amateur” status keeps lining the pockets of the executives in Indianapolis and the various media outlets that benefit from the awful inequality that permeates college basketball.