The NCAA is. . .

pretty much Communism (the bad kind).

Cam Newton did the right thing. . . if he took the money of course. To all the indentured servants, otherwise known as college basketball and college footfall athletes, take as much money as you can because the NCAA makes billions of dollars off you. If you think that athletes shouldn't be paid, well then you're a COMMUNIST too. Yup, a red-flag waving, China supporting, Barack Obama loving, Willy Wonka Communist. And here is why.

NCAA Revises History

The most entertaining reason why the NCAA is Communist is that they revise history just like every other Communist country. When an athlete gets caught taking money, the NCAA literally goes into the record books and makes it as if the athlete never existed. This is similar to what the Soviet Union did under Joe Stalin. They would literally erase people from history. Oh, and remember Tiananmen Square? Because the Chinese don't. Why not? Because the government erased it from their history. Does anyone at USC care that Reggie Bush is erased from the record books? No. It's not like all of the sudden USC fans and students are going to forget how awesome it was to have some dude run for like 200 yards a game and help win a national title. Here's an NCAA fun fact: Robert Parish officially never played college basketball! Robert Parish went to Centenary for 4 years, but the school was on probation and was not allowed to keep stats.

NCAA Does Not Pay a Decent Wage

As in Communism, the workers don't get paid well. In fact, in this version of Communism, they don't get paid at all! Do not tell me that the athletes are getting paid in education. D1 FBS players and D1 college basketball players go to school to play sports. Do you think Matt Leinart went to USC because of their awesome business school? Did Joe Forte go to North Carolina because of the cool professors in the art department? No, and yeah, that's right, Joe Forte, former UNC Tarheel and Celtics 1st round draft pick. Anyway, the NCAA signs billion dollar [TV] contracts, and gives the workforce 0 dollars from it. That can't even be argued. The NCAA directly gives zero dollars to the people whom they make their money off of.

NCAA is Not Fair

Jeremy Bloom was a skier and a football player. Bloom was not allowed to play football anymore because he took money from a ski sponsor. Not only did that have nothing to do with football, Bloom was essentially punished for making money without the NCAA getting a cut. Scholarships are also only 1-year deals. The NCAA allows a school to release an athlete from their scholarship for pretty much any reason. So if you play well, you don't make any money. However, if you play poorly, you can theoretically lose your room, board and education? That doesn't seem fair to me.

The NCAA could work if it only governed sports that don't make money, such as Cross Country, Field Hockey, Bowling, Swimming, etc. However, can we stop pretending that football and basketball student-atheletes are students first and athletes second? In reality, we should be calling them athlete-students. As a matter of fact, that's what I'm calling them from now on, and every time I use the word I'm going to get weird looks unless it's someone who reads this. Because people are afraid of change.

Bonus Fact: The word "amateur," as applied to sport, was created by the upper class in Great Britain as a way to create class distinction. The upper class felt as though the lower class wasn't worthy enough to compete with them, so they popularized the term in regards to lower class "athletes."

-Pat the Intern