NCAA may delay academic changes to give black schools more time

[johnhuskies95]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sport...e-to-conform/2012/04/25/gIQAwuuChT_story.html

 

[phillionaire]

just saw that jay bilas tweeted this. such bs.

 

[WhatTheDunk]

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NCAA to delay new academic requirements (after it gutted UConn's program)? http://wapo.st/Ja4qbq A team photo of NCAA:http://pic.twitter.com/kKSGvWuF

 

[progrocks]

so if Giffey, Wolf, and Olander transfer we are all good?

 

[61cygni]

Now they're just rubbing salt in the wounds.

 

[NOTaDIME]

Is this real life?

 

[djct1999]

i know very little about law, but this would seem to strengthen our case for a potential suit. doesnt it?

 

[brasssbonanzaa]

I could see this being a first step action towards reversing it for everyone. First, it's basically reverse racism by assessing a different set of standards to traditionally black colleges and other "low resource" universities. Second, it's also a public admission that schools pay to make their athletes do well in the classroom. What are these high cost things necessary to achieve positive results in the classroom? A few grad student tutors, some computers, and a full time employee or two overseeing athletic academic success? I'm not sure they can put this out there without subjecting themselves even more to legal action, much less discrimination-based legal action.

 

[Dove]

WTF?

EDIT: I wrote the above before reading the OP's link. It doesn't state that UConn would catch a break. Only those low-resource schools.

 

[HuskyFan16]

Because there are no black players on UConn's basketball team.

 

[Gurleyman]

What about high-resource schools with bad athletic directors who don't allocate the resources well? Don't they get a break too?

 

[champs99and04]

Why not just grant every school not named UConn a waiver? Funny how the NCAA can find an excuse for nearly every other program, but yet UConn did this to themselves.

 

[Vuce]

I didnt read it that way. I read it that NCAA may delay the changes for one year...for everyone. Not just for those schools. They are doing it because of those schools but it would affect all members. If this does happen, don't sue, just play the games see where we end up and we get to play in BET and if it is NIT then so be it.

 

[johnhuskies95]

The original story has been updated with quotes.



I hate Mark Emmert.

 

[superjohn]

I feel like Will Ferrell's character in Zoolander, "Am I taking crazy pills." This has been insane from the start and just keeps getting crazier and more obvious that the NCAA has a vendetta against us. I've been banging my head against the wall for awhile now wondering why we don't sue. What's to stop the NCAA from creating another rule just to screw with our program? We need to take our case to the public and sue their asses.

 

[UConn990411]

i know very little about law, but this would seem to strengthen our case for a potential suit. doesnt it?

If the NCAA decides to make an arbitrary exception and give these "low-resource schools" another year to adjust...but not UConn...then yes, UConn is pretty much guaranteed a victory in the court of law.

(Not that I'm expert, but I think they almost are anyway.)

 

[Vuce]

Oh man, I can really see the CT politicians jumping on this now if this is the case. So, "some" schools will get a pass but Uconn won't? Now THAT is BS!

 

[uconnbill]

The NCAA needs to be broken up as it is now. Just to much power to impact to many young lives with these kind of decisions. The player s from UConn should sue the NCAA.

 

[husky99]

Bullshit

 

[kyleslamb]

This is upsetting. Not only is the APR subjective (regardless of how it was scaled) and punishes the wrong people, but now they're giving programs a break that would have been in violation of the APR even before the new changes were made. These schools would have been in trouble under the old APR system, so there's no reason to cut them any special breaks.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Isn't this a form of means testing?

 

[swami7774]

Like all affirmative action-based actions, this reeks of condescension.
Because it is condescension.

 

[TRest]

I want AO to go to Mizzou, not make the tourney or NBA, then sue the NCAA for banning UConn and forcing him to go to Mizzou. He can argue that staying at UConn would have, in hindsight, been more beneficial to preparing him for a pro career.

 

[willie99]

do you really want to be known as a school that's ineligible but were granted a waiver because you have no money?

not sure I want that publicity

 

[nomar]

Emmert sounds like a real balloon knot.

This is good news for UConn. No, the NCAA isn't willingly opening the door for UConn -- whoever read this to say it would apply to UConn needs to re-read it slowly -- but it may be doing it unintentionally. This strengthens UConn's legal case without a doubt.