Corruption in College Basketball

Taking a break from fantasy football as I am already beat up with the NFL, we are starting to get ready for the start of college basketball. Being from New York and attending St. John's University it has been sad to see a decline in a great program and cant seem to understand what happened to such a great school that played its home games in the worlds greatest arena Madison Square Garden.
What may have went wrong? Was it the coaching, the campus? Location? The answer to this is maybe all of these issues contributed, but what may have been an even bigger issue is since St Johns built their dorms, the school is no longer allowed to pay, that's right PAY their players a stipend of $1100 per month for living expenses. During my day at the school many of the student athletes bought new cars and fancy clothes all with legal money the school provided under the scholarship. Since the dorms were built the players can live in these dorms and not be entitled to this stipend. This was a recruiting advantage for the school as some of the athletes chose St John's knowing this income would be there.

There is a lot of corruption in college sports, we all read about the Reggie Bush stories and the recent issues with Kansas State paying the highest salary to an assistant coach who coached Michael Beasley's AAU Team. Its time for the NCAA to stop all of this and either pay the players or stop fooling themselves. Where do they think all these players get the money for the clothes they wear, the tattoos they get, etc.....