Why not make athletics a major?

There may not be three more intelligent people talking about college basketball than Jay Bilas, John Gasaway, and John Infante. Their latest discussion circles around the state of amateurism in today's NCAA climate.

Gasaway and Bilas have essentially argued the same point -- that the collegiate athletics has changed, and that allowing college players to retain their amateurism while dealing with an agent would be beneficial and, more importantly, fair to these players that generate such a massive volume of revenue.

Infante, formerly of the By Law Blog, disagrees. His argument is absolutely worth the five minutes it takes to read it, but that is not the most interesting point he makes in the piece. This is:

The rest of this post can be found at Beyond the Arc.