Mirror shows root of problems in college athletics

What's wrong with us?

How did we allow these games being played at institutions of higher learning, where the primary goal is supposed to be educating young people, to become such a damning, out-of-control influence on our lives? To completely skew what we should easily recognize as the difference between right and wrong?

Make no mistake, we should've stopped it. Long before a deranged fan said he spread poison on some historic trees at a rival school. Or a respected coach didn't feel any need to tell his bosses that players had turned a tattoo parlor into their personal cash machine. Or a con man of a booster given the keys to a major university and allowed to turn it into …