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lol the show that they were supposedly promoting.. i have been on b4 back a couple of years ago when bama was in the ncaa tourney in b-ball i emailed them and defended bama bball and they asked me to come on the show .. anyway there are 2 new hosts and all they do is talk about how nd is unstoppable and i quote "who is on nd's schedule that could beat them".. and they were serious..... oh and btw no way in heck anything comes of this.. NO WAY
 
Quite frankly, I'm sick of the NCAA and its rules that have absolutely no affect on anything to do with systematic cheating.

Nothing SHOULD come from this because it's stupid as hell.

Players cannot visit dog tracks, have to report idiotic and completely unconsciquential comments on things like MySpace... all-the-while programs like the barn cheat with grade changing and non-existant course work to keep players eligible. THAT is cheating and THAT influences games. Not whether or not Matt Leinart smiled for an ESPN commercial or some Notre Dame kids acted like teenagers in a chance to get on TV.

The NCAA basically states who athletes can be friends with, what they can do with their free time, who they can date, where they can go for dinner, what a schools mascot can be, oh, and just for good measure, how many pages and what content can be in the media guide.

I hope the NCAA burns a slow and painful death and that they take a myriad of their idiotic rules with them.
 
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PlayerUA said:
Quite frankly, I'm sick of the NCAA and its rules that have absolutely no affect on anything to do with systematic cheating.

Nothing SHOULD come from this because it's stupid as hell.

Players cannot visit dog tracks, have to report idiotic and completely unconsciquential comments on things like MySpace... all-the-while programs like the barn cheat with grade changing and non-existant course work to keep players eligible. THAT is cheating and THAT influences games. Not whether or not Matt Leinart smiled for an ESPN commercial or some Notre Dame kids acted like teenagers in a chance to get on TV.

The NCAA basically states who athletes can be friends with, what they can do with their free time, who they can date, where they can go for dinner, what a schools mascot can be, oh, and just for good measure, how many pages and what content can be in the media guide.

I hope the NCAA burns a slow and painful death and that they take a myriad of their idiotic rules with them.
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I couldn't agree more.. Amen
 
PlayerUA said:
Quite frankly, I'm sick of the NCAA and its rules that have absolutely no affect on anything to do with systematic cheating.
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Amen, PLayerUA. I remember when Kentucky won the national championship in basketball in the 1990s. The school issued a t-shirt with a photo of 2 seniors (in other words, 2 players who had played their last game and had no more eligibility) hugging at center court at the end of the championship game with a big crowd around them. In that crowd was an underclassman Kentucky basketball player (actually, just the back of his head). The NCAA told UK that if they sold these t-shirts with the underclassman player's head in the photo, the underclassman would lose his eligibility.
Sort of makes statements like this seem hollow:
"The NCAA is trying to get student athletes the benefit of the doubt," Kearns said. "If they say, 'I didn't know this was happening,' we try to work with them and do what's best for them."
Sometimes the NCAA just seems pedantic, and seems not to have the best interests of the sport or the players at heart.
As far as the ND player's doing a promo for a sports show, I would simply ask 2 questions. Did they get money for doing the promo? Can other people, not athletes, also appear on the promos? If the answers are no and yes, then there is no ethical problem.
 
bamanut_aj said:
Silly. Of course nothing should come of this, it's ridiculous. Amen to all the comments about the NCAA.
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I realize that every individual rule probably came about as a result of some school somewhere breaking or bending a rule, but I believe that the two ethical guidelines I listed above should suffice. Did the student athlete earn money by the activity? Was the activity open to other non-athlete students? If not, then I see no problem with what these ND football players did.
I wish that the NCAA would focus on being the honest brokers in maintaining fairness between teams, and watching out for the best interests of student athletes.
 
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