Add another tally to NCAA investigations

The University of California Los Angeles have recruited the number two player in the country Shabazz Muhammad over the past spring to come play for their basketball program. This basketball phenomenon was suspended for the first three games of the season due to a ineligibility when the NCAA student-athlete guidelines were violated. As several players in the past have been found to have accepted different benefits to come play for different programs, the same situation occurred here with Muhammad who was forced to pay back over $1,600 in imperishable benefits in order for him to become eligible for the season. The competition by all universities causes them to go out of the way and offer illegal benefits to the players to convince them into playing for their program. The college system is so corrupt as these type of investigations will continue as more players and coaches are found guilty of accepted certain benefits. For example, players such as Reggie Bush from USC and Terrel Pryor from Ohio State, received free merchandise such as houses, cars, and tattoo which swayed them into playing for those school programs. Now these schools are facing the consequences of not having the opportunity to play in bowl games because of the decisions made by the university and the players in a scewed way of recruiting. I think these universities have to stop crossing the lines in order to recruit these players because it will just create a bad reputation for the program and will eventually sway players in other directions. Though I think this should stop, these methods by the universities will always exist because the competition to get the best players to have the best team in the country will continue and some athletic departments will do anything in their willpower to have certain players attend their school. Luckily for Muhammad the benefits he received were not to significant and he became eligible to play in his first college game last night after serving a three game suspension and he dropped 15 points in his debut for UCLA.