Per the NCAA on Fairness and Integrity:

"We are committed to enforcing the rules, creating fair competition and establishing a positive competitive environment for student-athletes across the country. It's the responsibility of our universities, athletics programs, coaches, alumni, student-athletes and national office staff to be fully accountable at every level as we support student success.

Values such as respect, caring, fairness, civility, honesty, integrity and responsibility are equally important on and off the field.

No one is above the rules. Unfortunately, some people will try to break the rules—but to ensure a fair system, the rules and the consequences have to apply to everyone. Our goal is to further strengthen our culture of personal responsibility and individual accountability."

The NCAA has failed. Time and time again, this organization turns the cheek against legitimate and substantial rules violations, creates new rules and policies that are in the best interest of creating economic growth rather than focusing on the core values and student athlete well being, and frankly, has for many years now exploited our youth for financial gain. It's time we move on, it's time to start over.

Just today, the NCAA introduced new rules that created further competitive imbalance, clearly focusing on the economic power of the few over the good of the many and the students. By deregulating electronic communication, high school age recruits can be contacted in an unlimited fashion via electronic communication, clearly allowing this to cut in the way of that student's ability to spend ample time on their education, where they should be focused. Further, the NCAA eliminated satellite camps which allowed coaches to provide free coaching to high school students in a region, bringing the best coaching to that region, rather than requiring the recruit to pay his own way to a camp, and may have also inadvertently (or purposely) prevented coaches at Power 5 conferences from an important stream of revenue and recognition by coaching camps outside of their own school. This may, in fact, be a violation of anti-trust laws.

Per Washington State University head coach Mike Leach via the Seattle Times

“It appears that the selfish interests of a few schools and conferences prevailed over the best interests of future potential student-athletes,” WSU coach Mike Leach said in a text message to the Seattle Times. “The mission of universities and athletic programs should be to provide future student-athletes with exposure to opportunities, not to limit them. It appears to me that some universities and conferences are willing to sacrifice the interests of potential student-athletes for no better reasons than to selfishly monopolize their recruiting bases.

“I will be fascinated to hear any legitimate reasoning behind this ruling.”

Per ESPN on the satellite camps, the ban "hurts recruits at all levels".

Previously, numerous students have taken to legal action to attempt to regain control of their image and their right to be compensated fairly for the work that they put in for an organization that profits off of their effort without paying them. For examples of this, see the Ed O'Bannon case, the case against EA sports, and then Northwestern University players attempting to unionize.

It's time to take a step in a different direction. It's time to make a change.