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The gall of the NCAA

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TiderinMS

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I just heard (ESPN SportsCenter) that any wedding gifts sent to Boise State's Ian Johnson and his fiance will be considered an illegal benefit by the NCAA.

What makes me so mad about the situation is that the NCAA is not just telling a two college athletes what to do and not to do, but also telling the public what they can do and not do. While I would not send a gift to the couple, there are some people who saw the proposal on TV and were moved enough to maybe to send a small congratulatory gift to the newly married couple. But not now. Oh no. The NCAA might penalize BSU (and therefore all BSU athletes, students, alumni and fans) for the tradition of sending and recieving wedding gifts.


On a sidenote: If I am a dishonest BSU rival's fan, don't I start sending the wedding gifts in hopes of getting BSU penalized?
 
And yet where are they on the USC issue? Everyone can see their bias through their obviously selective persecutions. They no longer serve any useful purpose and have made themselves the laughingstock of college athletics. I think member schools should get together and disband the NCAA. It should be replaced with a different organization dedicated to fairness and equality among all member schools.
 
Bama Reb said:
And yet where are they on the USC issue? Everyone can see their bias through their obviously selective persecutions. They no longer serve any useful purpose and have made themselves the laughingstock of college athletics. I think member schools should get together and disband the NCAA. It should be replaced with a different organization dedicated to fairness and equality among all member schools.
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That just makes too much sense Reb! The problem with the NCAA is that it is actually run by the schools generally in the north and west who are rarely if ever affected by their ridiculous behavior. Also, don't forget the NCAA is not just made up of the 114 D1 programs! The NCAA has way to many member institutions to be bothered by a few schools that dislike them. They were formed by the member schools, but have become too strong for those same schools to dump it. Is it possible major changes could take place? Sure, but not likely.
 
Bama Reb said:
I think member schools should get together and disband the NCAA. It should be replaced with a different organization dedicated to fairness and equality among all member schools.
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Exactly. Maybe an organization that enforces these simple rules:

1. A school's athletes are also students at said school.

2. A school's student athletes are required to meet the same requirements (grades and attendence) as non-athletic students.

3. A school does not provide anything for student athletes that it does not provide for non-athletic students.

Anymore suggestions?
 
That blows. I bet you could work around that. Send the money to a family member to be given to the couple once his eligibilty is finished.
 
Maybe they should have addressed to gifts to his fiance. Then they would not have been sent to him. That would be just like UT did with Tee Martin. His payments went through another person and they did not get punished.
 
When will enough schools say; enough of this crap from the NCAA? They have stuck their noses in far too many places where they have no business. If 5 or 6 major programs were to break off and start to form a new association, it would lead to the Nazis downfall rather quickly.
 
LTBamaFan said:
When will enough schools say; enough of this crap from the NCAA? They have stuck their noses in far too many places where they have no business. If 5 or 6 major programs were to break off and start to form a new association, it would lead to the Nazis downfall rather quickly.
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When there is another option that would allow the school Presidents maintain or increase their current power while also allowing them to make even more money. It is all about the Benjamins. The NCAA is at the root of the problem, but the corruption is allowed to stand by the membership for a reason. Too bad that the actual student athletes don't have a place at the table...
 
Let me play devil's advocate here. I agree that the NCAA is biased and make too big of a deal out of something like wedding gifts, while ignoring HUGE infractions at other schools. However, y'all know good and well that some MORONIC rich booster would use the opportunity such as a wedding to slip 10 grand to a player. The NCAA may act like idiots much of the time, but so do boosters.
 
Bama 13-0 said:
Let me play devil's advocate here. I agree that the NCAA is biased and make too big of a deal out of something like wedding gifts, while ignoring HUGE infractions at other schools. However, y'all know good and well that some MORONIC rich booster would use the opportunity such as a wedding to slip 10 grand to a player. The NCAA may act like idiots much of the time, but so do boosters.
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So the NCAA should have simply said that they would like to see a list of the wedding gifts received to ensure that nothing improper was allowed. The message would have been sent (to the boosters), and no one would have been the worse for it. What they did was beyond heavy handed - they effected the young couple's financial future...
 
You know, I can sort of understand the NCAA's thinking here. If they allow a player to receive wedding gifts, then everybody will get married. The floodgates will open, courts will be flooded with divorces after every player's eligibility expires. It would become a huge social and moral disaster. And isn't the NCAA known for its expertise on socio-moral engineering?? :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
 
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