Who's really at fault at OSU?

The line of the day comes from Tony Kornheiser on the ESPN show, Around the Horn. And I quote, "I'll bet there's some snickering going on in Ann Arbor."

It's funny and unfortunately; it's true.  Oh, how the mighty have fallen.

For those that may not know I consider myself a transplanted Buckeye, when I have been asked where my hometown is I always say Centerville, Ohio.

So I have some interest in the story coming out of Columbus.  Maybe I was foolish to think that things wouldn't get so bad that Jim Tressel would resign.  From what I am hearing I know that he is very much at fault for what was going on at Ohio State's football program.  He should have reported what he knew when he first knew it.

I think that the Athletic Director and the school's President had a little bit to do with it too.

But I think that the majority of the blame lays squarely at the feet of the NCAA itself. I personally believe the NCAA is shamelessly using student athlete's to make huge amounts of money.

I understand that you can consider scholarships as a form of payment. But these kids need more than their housing, books and education paid for. My understanding is that the student athletes really don't have the time to get jobs and I believe I have heard that they are not allowed to get jobs anyway.

Two to four years of cafeteria food, no money to go out on? What kind of a payment is that?

I know that a number of student athlete's will go on to have pro sport careers and will make more money than most of us ever will make in a lifetime. But that is not the majority of those kids. The majority will have to get real jobs and live life like most people do.  For those kids where is the payoff for all the hard work they had to do to be student athlete's.

Where is the payment from the NCAA for them. Where is their share of the money that the NCAA is making off of them for their athletic ability? I don't have the numbers but I am sure that the NCAA and it's member schools make billions of  dollars per year off of essentially free labor.

How is that more right than what went on in Columbus?