Justice Department Investigating NCAA Scholarship Rules

[Stallion]

its about time-they stink and major changes should be made. Any investigation should also more fairly define the obligations of a university when a player is given a written offer and makes a commitment-thereby creating what should be an enforceable contractr upon acceptances by both the player and school and qualification under school and NCAA rules. Each team should be awarded a set number of scholarships for each year and if they want to cut players for athletic reasons or sign academically marginal players then that school should suffer the consequences if those gambles don't pay off. This would even the playing field for schools that keep athletes eligible and coaches that develop their players. This is College Football which should be primarily about educating student athletes not the NFL which is primarily about winning at all costs. Of course, some exceptions might be acceptable like players with verified medical conditions, players turning pro etc

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/ ... ward_N.htm

[Water Pony]

its about time-they stink and major changes should be made. ...... This would even the playing field for schools that keep athletes eligible and coaches that develop their players. This is College Football which should be primarily about educating student athletes not the NFL .....

Couldn't agree more, Stallion. But, you are sounding more like what you labeled me once .... naive. Love the observation and intent. We can only hope. Thx.

BTW, this is how non-revenue sports primarily operate. These coaches don't carry the salary, BMOC attitude, and access to alumni checkbooks; but I submit they are more likely to resemble the intent above, i.e. developing and educating young men and women. The perfect example? Coach A. R. "Red" Barr, legendary Swimming & Diving coach at SMU. Besides being my coach, Coach Barr was a gentleman in the best sense of the word.

[Stallion]

I've never been against SMU supporting higher NCAA Standards applicable to all schools-what I've been against is SMU placing itself at a competitive disadvantage to the 90% of the schools who follow minimum academic standards

[Alaric]

Does this really rise to the importance of a Justice Dept investigation?

[Alaric]

Any investigation should also more fairly define the obligations of a university when a player is given a written offer and makes a commitment-thereby creating what should be an enforceable contractr upon acceptances by both the player and school and qualification under school and NCAA rules.

What if the kid changes his mind after a written offer and a verbal acceptance?