Big 12 commissioner, Bob Bowlsby — annual salary: $1.8 million — held a press conference at the kickoff of Big 12 media days, in which he basically admitted he'd rather remain a millionaire and cut smaller college sports than take a pay cut.
It seems Bowlsby is concerned some of the money generated by college football players may be finding its way back into the hands of college football players:
Bowlsby on cheating in CFB: "They've gotten very sophisticated. It's easy to move money around."
— David Ubben (@davidubben) July 21, 2014
Bowlsby: "If you like what you see in intercollegiate athletics now, you're going to be disappointed when change comes. And it's coming."
— David Ubben (@davidubben) July 21, 2014
Bowlsby: NCAA enforcement is broken cheating pays."
— Jake Trotter (@Jake_Trotter) July 21, 2014
Of course, none of this is happening in the Big 12. But, as Sports Illustrated's Andy Staples points out, of course cheating pays when the rules don't ban anything harmful.
