It is too terribly fitting that a team on probation won the NCAA men’s basketball championship Monday night.
We have witnessed a team with a quarterback that was being sold to the highest bidder win the NCAA football title. Now, just six weeks after being slapped with penalties, Connecticut is on top of the basketball world.
Sadly, this is what college sports has become.
Last May, UConn assistant coach Pat Sellers was forced to resign due with claims that he lied and provided false information to NCAA investigators.
But on Monday night, Sellers was there on the court, celebrating with the Huskies.
It’s time for something to change in college sports.
Something must be done to eliminate the corruption that rules over intercollegiate athletics.
The problem: Who is going to do this?
It most certainly isn’t going to be the NCAA. They trotted out Gene Smith, the Ohio State director of athletics who just saw his football program suspend its head coach for violations, to hand UConn its trophy.
It may never happen, which is troubling, because the schools that do it the right way will never see the success that they deserve.
I was rooting hard for Butler on Monday, hoping the underdog could slay the beast.
In the end it didn’t happen, because in college sports it pays to cheat.
Reach Andrew at andrew.gruman@asu.edu
