Can you stand even more NCAA hypocrisy? (LINK)

[upstater]

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/r...-rule-change-unlimited-text-messages-recruits

Also Thursday, the board indefinitely suspended plans to raise academic requirements in 2016 for initial eligibility at the Division I level. If enacted, the changes would have forced many first-year student-athletes to sit out of competition as "academic redshirts."

It's funny. You have a long article about text messaging and things that hardly matter at all, and then as an afterthought at the very end, we learn that the NCAA is suspending the rule to establish entrance requirements. Why? Because many players wouldn't qualify. And that, in turn, would eat into the bread and butter.

Now you know why APR is there. Because, for fear of losing money, the NCAA dare not establish any real academic requirements that might resuscitate the notion of the student in the term "student-athlete," it needed a PR campaign, a charade, a distraction. And the APR is exactly that distraction.

Here we go again with them. They suspended the only thing that could have given them credibility because they didn't want to lose any money.

 

[ddminct]

Always complaining about the NCAA. Its not like they didnt do something important. I mean they did ban hashtags from football fields.


http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ncaa-bans-hashtags-fields-144037063--ncaaf.html

 

[prankster]

Always complaining about the NCAA. Its not like they didnt do something important. I mean they did ban hashtags from football fields.


http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ncaa-bans-hashtags-fields-144037063--ncaaf.html

 

[freescooter]

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/r...-rule-change-unlimited-text-messages-recruits



It's funny. You have a long article about text messaging and things that hardly matter at all, and then as an afterthought at the very end, we learn that the NCAA is suspending the rule to establish entrance requirements. Why? Because many players wouldn't qualify. And that, in turn, would eat into the bread and butter.

Now you know why APR is there. Because, for fear of losing money, the NCAA dare not establish any real academic requirements that might resuscitate the notion of the student in the term "student-athlete," it needed a PR campaign, a charade, a distraction. And the APR is exactly that distraction.

Here we go again with them. They suspended the only thing that could have given them credibility because they didn't want to lose any money.

Couldn't agree more on this. It also would have been a shot across the bow of the NBA, essentially saying "we aren't being your babysitters anymore!"