SI Article on APR system flaws

[HuskyV]

Things we have discussed beforeseeing light of day in the media - probably too late for us.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/20.../22/NCAA-APR-changes/index.html?sct=cb_bf3_a2

 

[CL82]

I'd be much happier if it talked about the other things that we talked about: 1) we were punished twice for the same period, 2) that it was mathmatically impossible for us to be compliance when the rule was changed and 3) that if the NCAA used the most current information available, we would be in compliance - only use of old data makes us not qualify. These points needs to become a topic of discussion the major media.

 

[Ts5034]

Hopefully this is a start. I guarantee about 80% of the media as well as the fans have no idea what the APR is even about. The stereotype is that most UConn players are failing out of school and that the University of Connecticut is a joke of an institution academically. That is the farthest thing from the truth as most of us on here should know. Maybe if more articles are written and people start to pick up on it they will see how much BS this really is.

 

[CL82]

My wife said to me "well that's what Calhoun gets for playing guys who weren't academically eligible."

This was mishandled (with the benefit of hindsight) by Herbst and Manuel. They should have taken an aggressive public stance from day 1. It may not have changed the outcome (although it might have) but at least our side of the story would be in play publically. As soon as NCAA makes its final statement not to use current numbers, we should go public and hammer home how the system was manipulated to punish UConn.

 

[Tenspro2002]

Herbst and Manuel did the practical thing to try to get our ban lifted. They needed to appease the NCAA with honey and not with vinegar, so to speak. If they were aggressive with the NCAA, sure it might have made the press more aware and satisfied the fan base, but it also would have pissed off the NCAA and reduced any chance we had of overturning the ban to zero.

I agree with you that whenever it's finalized, the university needs to go on the offensive. And I think Manuel has already done so, to a degree, in either a written statement or comments a few months ago.

 

[Inyatkin]

Wow. Took all of one sentence to find complete BS: "If there is anything that we have learned about Mark Emmert during his tenure as NCAA president, it is that ensuring the education of collegiate athletes is of the utmost importance to him."
No. We have not learned that.