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I know very, very little about college basketball. I know Drake Lobs, Kentucky. I know things get

really exciting in March. And I know every year around this time everyone reopens the books on whether

or not we should pay college athletes. But this year's a little different.

College basketball is still trying to navigate what to do following a bombshell report from Yahoo

detailing potential violations from some of the top teams and players in the sport.

It's the biggest scandal in the history of college. Basketball may be the biggest scandal in

history of college sports. The FBI is involved. This is just the beginning.

The FBI is looking into a whole mess of improper gifts given to athletes. And these gifts are a

problem because they violate the NCAA's own rules around something called amateurs. As in college

athletes are amateurs or as the NCAA calls them. Student athletes, that's what the NCAA was

created for a hundred years ago and that's a weak keep our attention on. Mark Emmert is the president

of the NCAA. The game changer for a young person in life is that they get an education. If we're

making sure that the focus is on graduating from a university that's the real game changer for them.

Sounds super noble right? The only problem is all that money. March madness now brings in over

a billion dollars in TV ad revenue, trumping the NFL postseason. And that's just from one month of

college basketball. And none of that billion goes to college athletes all they get is scholarships.

Or at least that's what the NCAA says. At the same time, there currently is an economy governing

NCAA basketball and football the two big revenue producing sports. But it's an underground economy.

It's a gutter economy. It's made up of favors, but it's in a very corrosive and corrupt way.

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