It will be annoying over the next several days to hear ESPN commenters who have talked about these FBI investigations being about a few people and not a systemic problem with all of college basketball rant and rave about Phil Knight and Nike. Namely Dick Vitale, who is either willfully ignorant, an idiot, or a combination thereof.
Nike is the brand that started this whole mess. And it's the kind of hypocrisy we're going to see over the next several days, where ESPN pimps that brand, that has caused these sort of underlying issues in college hoops.
This isn't a "the players should be paid" rant necessarily but the fact that players aren't paid contrasted against the sheer amount of money that gets exchanged around college basketball will be on full display at this thing and ESPN is happy to play along.
/rant over
//will definitely be watching
Nike is the brand that started this whole mess. And it's the kind of hypocrisy we're going to see over the next several days, where ESPN pimps that brand, that has caused these sort of underlying issues in college hoops.
This isn't a "the players should be paid" rant necessarily but the fact that players aren't paid contrasted against the sheer amount of money that gets exchanged around college basketball will be on full display at this thing and ESPN is happy to play along.
/rant over
//will definitely be watching