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ESPN: NCAA Committee report a joke because it doesn’t address biggest issue

The national media spent the day breaking down — and in most cases, slamming — the NCAA Commission on College Basketball’s recommendations on how to fix the sport. We went over those recommendations this morning, but the best recap I’ve seen comes from ESPN’s Jonathan Givony, Myron Medcalf, and Jeff Borzello, who argue the report is a failure because it deflects the biggest issue facing college hoops: not compensating players.

“It’s preposterous to think that abolishing the one-and-done rule will fix all of college basketball’s problems,” Givony writes. “The much bigger issue is not allowing players to profit from their likeness, receive endorsement deals or be properly compensated by schools for the huge amount of money they generate, one the commission conveniently deflected, citing ongoing litigation and other issues.