The games best coaches such as Mike Krzyzewski earn well over a million dollars a season without scoring a single point. Steve Lavin's Exxon-Valdez 'do. I watch the players. Now, jock-haters point to the special treatment that players get as compensation enough. They are right.
Collegiate athletes do get special treatment.
If a player's friend gives him money to fly home to visit his parents, it is an NCAA violation. Such violations can cost a player his scholarship, putting him out on the streets with no money and no education. The system is absurd. While the NCAA does its Orwellian best to monitor player finances, making sure no French fry goes unpaid for, no one knows exactly what the NCAA does with billions of dollars. I'm saying that the average Division I basketball player deserves a piece of the pie.