Stripping the NCAA cartel (the NCAA and its member colleges and universities) of its tax-exempt status by the Congress would certainly help limit the seemingly uncontrolled growth of professionalized big-time college sports entertainment by putting a break on what appears to be a runaway financial train. However, this stripping would require a great deal of congressional courage because it would mean exposing an inconvenient truth— the false claim, i.e., the lie that forms the basis for the cartel’s tax-exempt status.
