As long as I've been alive, I've watched some football programs lie, cheat and steal their way to the top. Most are about as truthfully allied with the schools that sponsor them as Tiger Woods is allied with Gatorade. It's a money-making proposition and little else. These programs care nothing about academic integrity, nothing about anything other than their football programs. As such, and when their power waxes, they skew the dynamic and force other programs to either change what they are at their core or risk falling behind.
Some programs that fit this mold are USC, Alabama, Notre Dame, Oklahoma and Miami.
What if the NCAA excluded these type programs (say 20 or so) from competition and allowed them to form their own Super Conference with no admission requirements, no academic policies, no recruiting restrictions. If USC wants Reggie Bush to play, they can give him a million dollar mansion and a fleet of cars and nobody cares. They, in essence, become NFL factories.
Then the rest of the programs can return to true scholar-athlete competition as it was intended to be.
Ok. I'm clearly too drunk to post.
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