This weekend, a spectacle will take place in this mammoth 21st century creation. This is Reliant Stadium, home of the Houston Texans. This stadium has housed the Super Bowl, which is one of the biggest spectacles on planet earth. It is right up there with the World Cup Final, Mardi Gras, and the entire region of the Middle East. The thing about those spectacles is that they are all very much professional.
Tonight the world's largest amateur spectacle will take place: The Final Four. Don't give me that Olympic argument. Lebron James played in the Olympics, and there is no way he is eligible according to NCAA standards. So tonight, students from 4 schools, big and small, will try to win the national championship of the most corrupt organization in the country. The mafia is less corrupt than the NCAA. As Tony Soprano says, "There are rules to this thing." The same can not be said for the NCAA.
Take a look at the coaches in tonight's marquee match up. John Calipari is, in the words of my only literary hero, a swine. This is his 3rd team he has taken this far. Both of the 1st two schools got their Final Fours revoked because Calipari was not living up to the code of conduct of the NCAA. They hold these programs to a higher standard than the Catholic church. (BYU is a whole other can of worms.) So, in the eyes of the NCAA, Calipari is a cheater. If the NCAA was not a hypocritical organization, why wouldn't they just revoke John Calipari himself? Instead they pussyfoot around the issues, and they tend to be forgotten over time.
Jim Calhoun is the coach of the UCONN Huskies. He is already suspended for the start of next year for violating rules. If he broke the rules, why not suspend him when it counts? Like tonight, but nope, he will miss a couple games in early November when everybody is paying attention to the NCAA's bastard child, the BCS.
Basketball is a great game. These moneygrubbin ass holes around it can never ruin what happens on the court. The players are what's important. They get treated like indentured servants in this system. In my opinion, all players, especially the ones not getting paid, should go on strike from the NCAA. It's a corrupt organization with corrupt leadership that the players should be able to vote out of power every 4 years.
Having said all that, I will be tuning in tonight. I love basketball, so in that sense, I guess they won. I also think Kemba Walker is the best thing to happen to basketball since Allen Iverson.
These kids are by no way amateurs. Amateurs decide their champion at the local YMCA, not fucking Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas.
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