In the drop in progress, the drop, the drop of news concerning the efforts of President Trump specifically and / or the federal government generally to “save” university sports, there is an important question that has not been asked.
Why does the federal government need to do so?
University sports can be repaired. Decades of corruption in the form of antitrust flagrant violations have created the waste. Leave universities – who are apparently full of intelligent people – offer a solution.
It is a fundamental aspect of free enterprise. Freedom to prosper. Freedom to fail. The free market is everything.
A market free from violations of antitrust laws.
Universities are in competition for the services of young men who play football. For decades, the system was faked against them. “Sorry,” said schools, “we can give you nothing more than tuition fees, costs, bedroom, board and snacks. NCAA rules.”
Colleges have obtained a free (or at least extremely cheap) workforce for decades. In recent years, the judicial branch has systematically exposed the truth. Why should the executive and / or legislative power be involved?
University sports are not “too big to fail”. There is no convincing public interest in obtaining a broken sport to repair itself. If university football disappeared (and this is not the case), life would continue. (And the NFL was going to fill the void with three game windows on Saturday.)
The major baseball league is broken. It has been broken for decades. Small market teams cannot always compete. Should the federal government intervene and make it fairer?
This obsession to win obscures the fact that it is not a crisis of funding but of vanity. Those who have already reigned on sport (like Nick Saban) want the fact that the game has changed and that it is more difficult for them to dominate. That their cheese has moved. Now, instead of finding it, they want the president and / or the congress to explode the labyrinth.
Regarding sport, there are many problems that have an impact on the public interest. Concreases. Money game. Accessibility of emissions. The restoration of a certain sense to an industry is currently experiencing competitive chaos is not in the public interest. It is in the interest of schools that prefer to fill their chests with all or part of the money that is currently going to players. It is in the interest of the coaches, who can go where they want when they want to continue their own bag, so as not to have to face the constant challenge of keeping their teams together.
The instinctive (and often erroneous) reaction of many when the congress is involved in private affairs is to ask: “Do they not have better things to do?”
In this case, the answer is yes. Everything they do is better than trying to give university sports a quick and easy solution that results more for schools and coaches, and less for players.
Especially when an airport in a large metropolitan area cannot currently be functioning properly, because it periodically loses track, you know, planes.
So let's focus on shit repair which is really broken. And let university football clean your own waste. Our elected officials from the federal government have absolutely better things to do.
