The Most Important Article Ever Written About College Sports*

Did you get that from the ROMA database?

 

http://www.ncpanow.org/research?id=0024

 

Simple rules:

1. No criminal convictions.
2. Must remain in good academic standing
3. Must show up on time for practices and games.

That's it. No "failure to obey team rules", which could mean anything from choking out the coach to wearing an outfit of the sponsor's rival.

Player doesn't have the ability? Tough shit. This is school, these are amateur extracurricular activities. Kid keeps his scholarship. If the coach wants him to leave, then the kid still keeps the scholarship, and the team either loses it, or allow them a certain number of run-off scholarships.

Kid only loses his scholarship for the three rules listed above, or quits without any durress.

 

It is simple. I'll give you that much.

 

That's nice, cherry-picking and making assumptions that it's important who is, let's say, Alabama's quarterback is, as opposed to it being important that it's Alabama's quarterback. It's more accurate to say that being on the Duke men's team is worth potentially tens of millions in having a top coach to teach you and a lead in being sought by the NBA and a big edge in networking opportunities during and after a career, or in lieu of a career.

And a college student having to live in student housing and....oops, athletic dorm/athletic dining hall...having to struggle to study....oops, scads of tutors and oversight and diversion to easier/remedial classes that the regular student doesn't get....and so on. Poverty is part of college life, and tho given that, it doesn't really apply here.

 

None so blind...

 

None so cryptic...

 

Looks like you decrypted just fine.

 

You have supercrypted. I'd like to at least know if you're dissing me.

 

Actually, the NCAA got rid of athletic dorms in 1991 after a host of abuses (i.e., Oklahoma under Switzer).

And those tutors and the diversion to easier classes are designed to keep them eligible, that's all. And for basketball teams especially, those tutors are needed because the "student"-athletes miss a considerable amount of time away from their classes, especially around conference and NCAA tournament time.

And it's awesome that the kids get to benefit from being on Alabama's footbal team and Duke's basketball team. Yet SAban and Kryzyzewsi get paid a considerable sum from sneaker companies. The kids just get told to wear the free shoes. Why can't the kids get paid for wearing the shoes, too?

 

Because K and Saban are the boss. The boss gets stuff the underlings don't get. And if you think athletes don't get special dorm setups...

 

Police seized 49 pairs of what are commonly known as tennis shoes from the apartment of LSU auarterback Jordan Jefferson as part of the fight investigation.