In this article by TIME, many college basketball coaches express their opinions and frustrations as well as worries about playing out the 2020-2021 college basketball season with COVID-19 running rampant.
- Pittsburgh Coach Jeff Capel says these athletes are putting their health on the line for entertainment, and they’re not being compensated.
- Duke Coach Mike Krzyzewski agrees that playing the 2020-2021 basketball season does not feel right, and believes things should be done instantly.
- Iowa point guard Jordan Bohannon says that it is unfair that players have to distance themselves from family and loved ones just to play a basketball game on Christmas day and make their universities money.
- The publisher argues that the NCAA is based upon amateurism, and that it does not make sense that college athletes cannot benefit off of their own name, image, or likeness.
- While college athletes get educations from prestigious schools, they are often advised to take “easier” majors so that they can focus less on school, and more on practice/sports.
- Former Xavier forward and NBA champion David West says that Coach Capel is speaking the words that have been true for a long time, that amateurism is a con. And with the pandemic, the NCAA is having a hard time keeping up the facade that money won over rhetoric.
- Capels words indicate that schools care more about money than their students and athletes safety.
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