John Oliver brilliantly takes down the NCAA

Agree or disagree, I thought this was a great presentation:

 

I don't know when I will have time to watch it, but I always find it funny when the NCAA talks about how the kids are student-athletes, and then players on Final Four teams miss the equivalent of several weeks worth of classes.

 

He's the second coming of Jon Stewart. Just TAKING DOWN and SKEWERING everything in sight! GO GET EM, KID!!!!!

 

He's so biting, and funny.

 

John Turturro plays him in the movie.

 

Glad he called out the creative accounting schools use to claim athletic budget losses. Few things more galling than claims of poverty by schools handing out multi-million dollar salaries like gumdrops and building facilities so obscenely lavish they'd make an Arabian sheik blush.

 

It's a good thing he is around to call out the NCAA. Otherwise, who would know it's a racket?

Fresh.

 

Yeah, not really.

 

I can't wait for next week's brilliant double-feature takes of 1) Pedophiles suck and 2) Cancer is bad.

 

Yeah, but finding out that Dabo Swinney is an anagram for Soybean Wind was worth that 20 minutes.

 

For all of us, yeah. But I bet a large chunk of his audience and tons of people who don't pay attention other than to fill out a bracket and toss in a fiver this week have never given it any thought.

 

I applaud them; the more someone exposes the fraud that is the NCAA, the better. You see Napier talking about being hungry, Sherman pointing out how he's got to take a full course load while simultaneously fulfilling the team requirements, then contrast that to Emmert polishing his "student-athlete" crap. Beautiful.