Condoleezza Rice discusses the positions of the Commission on College Basketball in an interview with Courier Journal. Jeff Greer/Louisville Courier Journal
The NCAA has to change. Headlines from last week should help.
Finally.
First, the mom of a likely NBA lottery pick likened her son's experience playing college basketball to slavery. Then, a former U.S. Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, said the NCAA's rules were "incomprehensible."
Not to mention unfair, outdated and borderline immoral.
She's right. They are.
Wendell Carter's mom is right, too.
Here is what Kylia Carter told the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics last Monday, according to USA Today:
"When you remove all the bling and the bells and the sneakers and all that, you've paid for a child to come to your school to do what you wanted them to do for you, for free, and you made a lot of money when he did that, and you've got all these rules in place that say he cannot share in any of that," she said.