Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari offers suggestions for how to address college basketball scandal, deal with agents. Jon Hale/Courier Journal
You start with the understanding that the playing field is not level. Never was. Never will be.
No amount of legislation is going to place Oregon State on the same sports plateau as Ohio State. No matter how much you tweak the rules and strangulate the spending, Kentucky basketball will continue to have more cachet, more tradition, more resources and a bigger fan base than, well, almost everyone else.
The notion that allowing college athletes to be compensated will disrupt the NCAA’s delicate balance is founded on a fallacy.