I Just Don't Understand ... Dump the NCAA

[SkanSU]

I know that some may think that this belongs on the football board but I think it has to do with the NCAA in general. How does 1 organization usurp so much power and is able to make totally trivial rules and then if they have none bend a rule so that it can apply ... retroactively.
Case in point. I just read an article that points out that Michigan could be in trouble ... possibly facing sanctions ... because? Glad you asked. 2 players tweeted 2 kids who signed committment papers and gave them a congratulations!! This sits the same as the SU Office person who, before the actual signing, announced that DC2 had committed to SU. And SU had to "self-report" that "violation".
Now let's talk about the drug issue ... what drug issue. The NCAA has no policy on drugs other than it is up to the institution to put a policy in place ... or not. Heaven forbid ... if you have a policy in place you had better not violate it. And if you violate your own policy than the NCAA can take action retroactively for lack of institutional control. We are bogged down in triviality and pettiness.

Time to get rid of the NCAA. Rant is over. Thank you for listening

 

[CusefanATL]

http://espn.go.com/college-football...-wolverines-players-tweets-violated-ncaa-rule

Was just about to post this...

Our whole Bball team is ineligble right now

 

[iommi]

The Boz (Brian Bosworth, Oklahoma LB in the 1980s, for you youngsters)...said it best when he wore a shirt on the sidelines of a bowl game (Orange Bowl?)

National
Communists
Against
Athletes

I agree, dump the NCAA...but what would govern college athletics?

 

[rrlbees]

Don't worry. In 5 years the big schools will break away from the NCAA.

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[iommi]

Don't worry. In 5 years the big schools will break away from the NCAA.

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You really think so? Who'd govern it?

 

[jordoo]

You really think so? Who'd govern it?

The big schools would

 

[joct]

It feels like they create rules, then long investigations, legal hassles, just to justify their own existence. Without a 10,000 page manual, full of rules that no one understands and wouldn't apply in any other walk of life they wouldn't be needed to enforce it. Things like peanuts from a hotel room on a road trip and getting a ride from a coach for 1/2 a mile after getting a flat tire, they then bring in teams of lawyers to interview 19 year olds. Then they all go to the Final Four in the private jets and stay in 5-star hotels so they can give lectures about their policies.

 

[Moontan]

It seems like most here do not understand just who/what the NCAA is.

The NCAA is an organization set up by institutions which offer inter-collegiate sports programs to govern those sports and organize competitions for those sports. If enough members don't like the rules of the NCAA they can change them. If a subset of the members feel that the organization no longer servers their needs then they can withdraw and institute another organization to serve them.

Since the entire membership is so dependent on revenues generated by the "big boys", I suspect that instead of the those institutions leaving the NCAA that another division is defined. The new division will be governed by a somewhat different set of rules. It wouldn't be surprising if the eventual basketball championship tournament will be open to members of both the new division as well as the current Division I.