Dear NCAA, you suck.

Yes, i’m a disgruntled Kentucky Wildcat fan still fuming from the ruling making Enes Kanter permenantly ineligble to play collegiate athletics, but that does not diminish the fact you are a greedy, power hungry organization the an absolute monopoly on college athletics.

With three recent examples it is seen that your corruption knows no hipocracy.  How is Enes Kanter ineligible to play basketball for the University of Kentucky?  He accepted $33,000 from a pro team in Turkey for whom he’d been playing professionally for three years.  That’s like my son working at the local grocery store to save for college as soon as he turns 16.  His family turned down millions in guarenteed money so he could come to the US and play high school and college basketball.  Probably so they could cash in on the multi millions he’s going to make in the NBA after one season.

Five Ohio State football player are suspended for the first five games of next season for selling or trading off their personal items for gain.  I thought that was in the Constitution that everyone is allowed to do that!  Isn’t that the American Dream?  To take what you have and make more if it?  Not unless the NCAA says so apparently.  This information came out weeks before the team played in the Sugar Bowl and the NCAA made their decision on punishment weeks before the Janruary 5, 2011. (the NCAA made their ruling on December 23, 2010)  But the five players weren’t suspended from the upcoming bowl game.  They were suspended for the first five games of next, the 2011 season.  How do you rationalize first, suspending these players for taking their personal possessions and profiting off of them, and second, how is this such a heinous infraction that you suspsend them for what seems excessive five games?  And yet it’s not such a big deal that you gotta make them miss the upcoming bowl game?

Cam Newton.  2010 Heisman trophy winner.  College football’s greatest award.  The award was stripped this year from Reggie Bush for accepting what was deemed improper benefits from fans or boosters as they are called.  Things like automobiles for himself, a home for his parents to live in.  I don’t know, reasonable compensation if you ask me, but I can definatly understand these being improper benefits.  So okay, strip Reggie Bush of his Heisman.  Cam Newton’s father approached at least one University in the SEC asking for a hundred grand in cash for his son to attend their school and play football!  But this kid is still playing ball?

But our boy Enes Kanter who worked his tail off for his local grocer, or in this case the local pro basketball team, saving up his money, $33,000 for three years of work, to attend an American university so he can provide for his family like most of us can only dream of, is inelible to play.

You suck NCAA.  I call for a class action lawsuit.  I hope the Kanters sue you.  There’s gotta be some slimy high dollar attorney salivating right now at the chance to stick a foot up your ass and change the landscape of college athletics in this country and revolutionize sports the world over.  I hope somewhere there’s a greedy, crafty sports agent on the phone right now with the Kanter family getting their lawsuit in order.  Because he knows of the cash this kid is going to be rolling in once he hits his second and third NBA contract.  And if not this kid, the next one.

Maybe we can even get a football playoff.