Thursday, December 23, 2010

NCAA Suspends 5 From Ohio State - Looks Foolish Doing So

The NCAA is the most poorly run organization I have ever seen.  Explain this to me:  Ohio State had 5 players selling various different student-athlete perks (T-Shirts, Rings, etc.).  The NCAA finds out.  They decide to suspend the 5 players involved (including superstar QB Terrelle Pryor).  The suspensions begin effective immediately after these knuckleheads play in the Sugar Bowl.

The NCAA is SO awful about taking a stance and making their point in a way that holds any water.  For example, USC had to forfeit wins from the Reggie Bush era.  Here's the thing...  I was at a lot of those games, and USC won them.  I am not going back in my memory and changing the Ws to Ls.  You can change the record books all you want, but for the players that played those games and the people who watched, USC won them.  Basically it's a garbage punishment.  And we are going to see the same thing for Auburn when the Cam Newton thing plays out.

And the Pryor situation is just another example.  He's a guy who is going to play in his nationally televised BCS bowl game and then declare for the NFL draft about 45 seconds after the game is over.  So essentially he gets no real punishment whatsoever for his infractions.  And really, neither does the program.  It's a joke.

Here's a thought on how the NCAA could fix this problem.  Any money that is made by a certain program as a direct result of successes by players within the program or the program as a whole should be cataloged and required to be donated back to the NCAA endowment.  You really want to hurt a school/program for it's rules violations, hit them in the wallet and make it count.  Otherwise, the school will accept the records book changes, suck up the probation/penalties and continue on with business as usual effective immediately.

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