March Madness

It's March which means the NCAA basketball tournament is in full bloom. Big deal!
I refuse to watch a basketball tournament in which the NCAA crowns a national champion when they refuse to put in place a football playoff to do the same. The leaders of the NCAA are hypocrites. They attempt to portray the image of an organization that holds its participants to high standards while they pursue athletic excellence. What a load of crap that is.
The NCAA is about one thing: money. They would implement any system that would generate a greater profit for them. It's why they have a playoff system in every sport but football. As soon as they can come up with a football playoff with a larger payoff than their current BCS (Bogus Championship System), they will.
The NCAA is an organization that uses young men and women athletes as their own source of free labor. While the NCAA makes millions of dollars off of their athletes, remember, these athletes are not allowed to make a dime for anything they do outside of their sport.
The NCAA, not the athlete, profits from jersey sales of football and basketball players but won't allow the athlete who shines in it to hold a summer job because they are on scholarship. Excuse me, but any kid on a scholarship who has the drive to earn money should be applauded. I don't care if it is doing yard work, waiting tables, or dancing at a strip club. If they can find a legal job to do then they should be allowed to do it. Remember, those same schools do not prohibit students on scholarship for academics from earning money so why shouldn't an athlete?
The people who coach these athletes are paid quite handsomely by the universities. They also earn additional money for the television and radio shows they "host" to promote their team as well as money for advertising products from companies looking to cash in on their success.
I don't know about you, but I have never attended any sporting event or watched one on the television to see someone coach. We tune in to watch the athletes do their thing and the NCAA claims these money making magnets should be happy just to have a scholarship. Lets not forget, these scholarships are not even guaranteed and can be revoked each year.
Just for once, I would like to see these student athletes do something really bold; something that would hit the NCAA where it hurts. When tournament time rolls around, after a long regular season where thanks to ESPN their talents have been show cased to no end, I would love to see these basketball players go on strike. I would love to see them tell the NCAA, "We're done working for free."
Any player with an ounce of talent does not need the NCAA tournament to know if they have the goods to play in the NBA. Most know mid way through their freshman year if they have the talent for the next level.
However, if enough of the top players from the top programs went on strike and forced the cancellation of the NCAA tournament, they would send a message to the hypocrites profiting from their hard work. Television revenue would have to be returned hurting the NCAA in the only thing they care about, their wallets. Networks would have to scramble for new programing and face the consequences of lost viewership and advertising revenue. Vegas would see a huge loss in money bet on tournament games while fans would have to go back to work rather than come down with a mysterious case of flu during the tournament. It would, for lack of a better phrase, result in a new March Madness.