Cheating Wins Championships

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There is so much pressure riding on high school athletes’ shoulders. Schoolwork, sports, family, their future, there is always a decision to be made. Sometimes they can create a career, or sometimes it can destroy one. Colleges would do anything to land a 5-star student athlete in their program, legal, or illegal. If you stay within the rules you can build a program for success, but if you try to cheat you could burn a program to the ground. There are some cases where the school will not get caught, but most of the time cheating will come back to bite you in the butt. The process where a college tries to get a high school student to come to their school is called recruiting. The real meaning for the word recruiting is to resupply. That is basically what recruiting is. When players leave college they try to resupply new ones to replace them. College football recruiting is absolutely crazy. Coaches will do almost anything to bring a good athlete into their program, and that’s their job. There are many rules in recruiting. If you break these rules there are penalties. You are not allowed to accept money as a player. As a coach you are not allowed to give a player money. A lot of teams do this anyways. The penalties for giving benefits to players can be loss of scholarships, banishment from post-season, or vacated wins from previous seasons. The problem is that many high school students think it is okay to take offered money. College basketball and football were asked if they thought it wasn’t right to accept money for playing in college sports and a crazy 61 percent of African American basketball and football players said no. There was also a shocking 34 percent of white basketball and football players that said it wasn’t wrong (W... ... middle of paper ... ...ht. There is that competitive edge in every athlete or coach that wants to win and wants a championship and all that greed results in rule breaking and cheating. You won’t be able to stop people from wanting to win and that is why there will always be people cheating. That is why the NCAA needs to get more involved with recruiting and college sports so people know if you break the rules you will get caught. I think the punishments were fair and right for USC. I think they learned their lesson and they won’t cheat again. That is what needs to happen with other teams. Whether it is by PED tests or by butting in on recruiting they need to start catching people. USC deserved all the punishments they were given because it sends a message to other schools that you will be caught. Cheating might win championships, but in the end it will come back to haunt you in the end

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