Books for sale - NCAA Investigation of Alabama

That was a real funny article and they're right...the NCAA doesn't put things into perspective and they have unlimited power to hand out sanctions.

A customer of mine who ate breakfast at the restaurant today played football at Tulane under Mack Brown. He told me that some of the players from rural Louisiana came from families that didn't have much in the way of posessions. These kids used to wear their team issued tennis shoes to class because they were better than the ones they brought from home. They had to stop wearing them to class because of some NCAA rule that was put in place to stop schools from giving something of value to the players thus gaining a competetive advantage.

They were students after all, and those team issued shoes were responsible for getting them to class. It's not like the university or their boosters gave them vehicles to get to class.

I have a strong feeling that the NCAA is a beaurocracy that has gone out of control and is in need of reform. If Huey Long were governor, and Hale Boggs was still alive, I'm sure that the federal government would be looking to regulate the NCAA heavily. Boggs would probably be trying to apply the Sherman anti trust act while Long would be passing state regulations requiring all kinds of vaccinations for NCAA compliance officers who try to enter Louisiana. :wink:.

 

Thats pure gold. :lol:

 

Rut roh, forgot to tell the recruits:

http://www.al.com/sports/birminghamnews/kscarbinsky.ssf?/base/sports/123667296784280.xml&coll=2

 

The NCAA enforcement staff is a cluster phuck of inconsistency. There is no way they are going to try and hammer the gumps for this. Im told if they try and take more than 2 schollies the gumps will go into all out battle mode. Sounds like a good strategy to me. Ole Miss and Missouri went all out a few years ago the NCAA folded into the fetal position on far more serious accusations. The day of accepting NCAA sanctions are pretty much over if the institution disagrees. They see how the NCAA has been inconsistent and can easily show by comparison the arbitrary and capricious practices. Its one thing if the institution agrees. Its quite another now if they dont and a relatively new way of dealing with NCAA sanctions.

I wish I was getting better info around here but understandably the elephants are reluctant to say a whole lot knowing Im not in their circle. What little I'm getting is probably spin control but one thing is clear, they will not accept major punishment in football although they expect, and will agree to, a couple years probation. Supposedly most of this book thing took place outside the football program and has more reaching effect in other sports. They know other sports will be hit fairly hard but not football. They claim the NCAA gave the green light on reinstating the players although there may be evidence to suggest they didnt.

This isnt going to drag on. They are supposed to hear from the NCAA in the next few weeks. They were pretty smart to keep this under wraps for a year.