Over the years, the NCAA has not only made a number of rule changes that have emphasized athletics over academics so as to move their big-time football and men’s basketball programs to professional levels suitable for Unfortunately, until the Penn State scandal, scant heed has been paid to the mounting evidence of greed, corruption, and hypocrisy that has come to characterize big-time college sports.feeding the NFL and NBA, but has also demonstrated an amazing ability to avoid serious reform.