Citing “levels of corruption” grave enough to threaten the survival of the sport, Condoleezza Rice and her NCAA-appointed Commission on College Basketball have proposed reforms that aim to “put the ‘college’ back in college basketball.” They hope to do this by cracking down on corruption, reducing the flow of illicit money into players’ hands and fortifying the National College Athletic Association’s punitive powers.
But like previous reform attempts, the commission’s approach is intended to shore up the current model of college...