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Worth a listen from Coach Izzo

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There's an awful lot here, but one comment that might run under the radar is when a reporter says while college athletics need to have an educational component. Izzo rep replies "There is no educational component. The NCAA ruined that."
 
I don't blame the NCAA here. They are afraid of getting sued.
So what. They have more money than the player suing them. Their job was to oversee COLLEGIATE sports. They abdicated after they started using player images in video games without compensation and now they cave anytime they get sued
 
I like Tom Izzo but I always find it funny he always blames the NCAA for what's wrong with the sport but never mentions the coaches who instigates these situations.
I do too. The amount of zingers he threw at the press corps was elite
 
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I like Tom Izzo but I always find it funny he always blames the NCAA for what's wrong with the sport but never mentions the coaches who instigates these situations.
He did mention the coaches in this presser as well. Just went a little softer on them.
 
I like Izzo but I doubt he will be denouncing this gift to Michigan State:


So it’s not just the NCAA, it’s everyone. I guess it’s us too because we love watching the UConn Huskies. I agree that it is completely out of control and there has to be some regulation and caps on the amount of money involved, but until then, I would love to have a gift like this… And a few NBA players on our team.
 
I like Tom Izzo but I always find it funny he always blames the NCAA for what's wrong with the sport but never mentions the coaches who instigates these situations.
These things start when coaches do what’s allowed under the rules. Once a couple do it, the other coaches follow out of necessity. So if the NCAA refuses to set the rules needed to protect collegiate athletics because they’re afraid of the courts, Congress needs to act. Nobody wants it but what other solution is there?
 
How can he complain about the NCAA when it was the P5 including his conference that is behind all this (with the networks). Yes, I know it is now the P2
 
I don't blame the NCAA here. They are afraid of getting sued.

That's like saying you don't blame the soldier who ran away from the battle, he was afraid of getting shot.

If you are the NCAA, what do you stand for? Do you run away from everything?
 
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That's like saying you don't blame the soldier who ran away from the battle, he was afraid of getting shot.

If you are the NCAA, what do you stand for? Do you run away from everything?
They are not really soldiers. More like King Charles. No power. It is the P2 that have to fix the mess they made and they won’t until they have destroyed college athletics.
 
They are not really soldiers. More like King Charles. No power. It is the P2 that have to fix the mess they made and they won’t until they have destroyed college athletics.
Bingo.

The NCAA has always been awful and they should have at least tried to compensate players and put in guardrails but the reality is the courts rule against them on everything and the Big 10 and SEC control/destroy everything.
 
All analogies fail at some point. My point was that the NCAA are cowards.

BTW, if you listen to Izzo, it sounds like the coaches have no input on these decisions.
 
All analogies fail at some point. My point was that the NCAA are cowards.
Yup.

Yes, it's crazy, but worth emphasizing that although Baylor is on the receiving end of a lot of outcry over the state of college basketball, Drew's program is far from the only one doing this. The rules keep changing because the threat of legal action is prompting one fold after another.
"We (coaches) don't create the rules, and if we agree by them or not, I equate it to the speed limit," Drew told CBS Sports.

"You go through a construction zone, it changes. You get on the highway, it changes. Right now, the NCAA has speed limits, and it changes. I don't blame the NCAA because a lot of it's about what they feel they can win in the courtroom. To me, until we get to collective bargaining, there's not going to be a solution. Until that time, my job is the coach of our program and we needed to add a player at semester break because we've had two season-ending injuries to two of our biggest players and had a third player out. If you're coaching a team, aren't you going to add the best player you can add that fits your program? That's what we did."


 
Bingo.

The NCAA has always been awful and they should have at least tried to compensate players and put in guardrails but the reality is the courts rule against them on everything and the Big 10 and SEC control/destroy everything.
It's like trying to steer a super tanker to avoid an iceberg. Tiny course corrections early on can do it easily. But if you wait until too late, there's nothing you can do when you're going to slam right into it. Had Emmert and company acted early I think we'd be in a lot better circumstances, but by saying oh we think every state should make their own rules. They basically forfeited any authority they had.
 
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