College basketball's recent outbreak of splotchy eyes and drippy noses is a "new high mark of a changing culture, " says Tom Lutz, the author of "Crying: The Natural and Cultural History of Tears, " even if some prefer other forms of catharsis.
However, where jock culture starts morphing into rape culture is when coaches start asking for grade changes to keep a player eligible, or parents overvalue their basketball-playing child compared to their violin-playing child.