Are there too many rules and regulations set by the NCAA that slows down the college recruiting process?
Are there too many ridiculous NCAA rules that hurt college sports?
We all know that the NCAA is the governing body of all of college athletics. The NCAA has their hand in high school athletics as well. I think the NCAA is a little bit slow and outdated when it comes to the modern world of athletics.
I understand there has to be rules to protect the student athletes and I’m really OK with that part of the NCAA.
A college coach making too many phone calls to a student athlete that they are trying to recruit to another college program, I don’t see why that would be considered wrong. The NCAA has penalized college programs for excess phone calls to recruits; they’ve also penalize college programs for having barbecues where potential recruits were in attendance and again, what’s wrong with that?
There’re restrictions on phone calls, there’re restrictions on texting student athletes, there’s close scrutiny with Facebook and Twitter and I say what is the big deal?
All of these things mentioned are very harmless. I know you can’t give money to high school recruits or gifts to persuade a student athlete to your college program; we all know that’s illegal and wrong.
This generation of high school athletes is totally different from players 30 years ago. These young players today expect something in return, other than a full athletic scholarship, for their athletic ability that generates millions of dollars to that university. The players are not blind; they see the amounts of money being made because of what they do on the football field, the basketball court or anywhere else money is being made.
Just about every day when I watch ESPN there’s always a story about the NCAA opening an investigation about a college athletic program. Sometimes the infractions, like with the OhioStatefootball program, are major and other times the infractions are so small that it makes no sense to even mention them at all. Getting a tattoo in exchange for an autographed football helmet is enough to destroy an entire football program and get the coach to resign. Why?? How is this a crime? Who, in this entire scenario, is being victimized?
When the NCAA does decide to punish an athletic program it’s only hurting the student athletes who are still there and who’ve done nothing wrong to receive such punish. That is totally unfair to them. What the NCAA should do is fine these college programs millions of dollars and the coach must be fired or banned from coaching for a particular period of time. In the situation atOhioState, the university should be fined millions of dollars and the coach must lose his job for a certain amount of years.
John Calipari, the head men’s basketball coach at Kentucky, is the coach who had major NCAA violations at the University of Memphis and at the University of Mass. But the entire school was punished. It had to give up victories and was put on probation but the coach received no punishment at all. Coach Calipari was free to leave those programs and get another coaching job without any problems. John Calipari can break the rules, leave the school and the players he’s leaving behind have to serve his punishment. That is totally wrong and unfair to college athletics overall.
There’s going to come a time where big-time major college programs are going to get sick and tired of the NCAA and form their own league and create their own governing body. Any time major college football programs can switch to new conferences or even think about switching to another conference makes it a possibility that the top 30 college programs in this country can form a new league.
The University of Texas has a television network called the Longhorn Network. This will create millions of dollars for the University of Texas. Many other major programs might end up starting their own TV networks so they can have more control of their money which will give them more power to do what they want to do.
I can see a time where there will be separate college conferences away from the NCAA where the players will receive some type of compensation and there will be more modern and updated rules to accommodate this generation of student athletes.
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