saw nolan's comment about the ncaa in kotysdad's thread and as usual it hit a nerve with me. especially today, when the headlines in today's raleigh sport's page is the announcement that the ncaa has denied the appeal of tremaine hall, the nc state top 5 football recruit, and he will be forced to sit a year as a result. tremaine, you see, finished high school a semester early with a 3.2 gpa (high "b" average) and did fine on his sat. he enrolled at state for the spring semester in order to get acclimated to college and did quite well in his coursework. however, tremaine is from florida and florida requires a "competency" test as a prerequisite for high school graduation. tremaine took his test twice for good measure at the end of his high school classes, but florida did not make the results known until after he had enrolled at state.
you guessed it. hall failed to pass his competency test and, when notified of this, immediately returned and retook the test and passed it. but because he did not pass the test prior to enrolling at nc state the ncaa deems him a nonqualifier and, since the acc does not admit nonqualifiers, he would thus never be eligible to play in the acc. this ruling has been appealed, but given the track record and arrogance of the acc, this appeal will probably be denied, and tremaine will have to transfer to a non-acc school and sit out a year.
i am so sick of the ncaa screwing with young athletes lives while making millions off of them i am about to heave. why the major conferences allow these assholes to run things is a complete mystery to me. as a lawyer, my favorite fantasy is that, somehow, i acquire about six or eight of the major conferences as clients. then i schedule an appointment with the dicks that run the ncaa and hop on a airplane and fly my ass out to where-ever it is in the bum**** midwest that these toads hide out for most of the year. i go into my meeting, graciously introduce myself and tell them who my cleints are. then i tell them that we have given the matter careful consideration and have made a joint decision to start paying salaries to our student athletes. knowing this to be contrary to the rules of the ncaa, i tell them that i have come to tender the resignations from the ncaa of all my client's member schools. i tell them no hard feelings and get up to leave, and on my way out the door, i stop and mention that they may want to contact the networks and bowls because my clients plan on running their own football and basketball tournaments, oh, around new years and march, and the first thing i'm going to do when i get home is call these people up and invite them to bid for the rights to our tournaments. thank you, have nice day.
you think that might motivate them to pull their heads out of the collective asses?
you guessed it. hall failed to pass his competency test and, when notified of this, immediately returned and retook the test and passed it. but because he did not pass the test prior to enrolling at nc state the ncaa deems him a nonqualifier and, since the acc does not admit nonqualifiers, he would thus never be eligible to play in the acc. this ruling has been appealed, but given the track record and arrogance of the acc, this appeal will probably be denied, and tremaine will have to transfer to a non-acc school and sit out a year.
i am so sick of the ncaa screwing with young athletes lives while making millions off of them i am about to heave. why the major conferences allow these assholes to run things is a complete mystery to me. as a lawyer, my favorite fantasy is that, somehow, i acquire about six or eight of the major conferences as clients. then i schedule an appointment with the dicks that run the ncaa and hop on a airplane and fly my ass out to where-ever it is in the bum**** midwest that these toads hide out for most of the year. i go into my meeting, graciously introduce myself and tell them who my cleints are. then i tell them that we have given the matter careful consideration and have made a joint decision to start paying salaries to our student athletes. knowing this to be contrary to the rules of the ncaa, i tell them that i have come to tender the resignations from the ncaa of all my client's member schools. i tell them no hard feelings and get up to leave, and on my way out the door, i stop and mention that they may want to contact the networks and bowls because my clients plan on running their own football and basketball tournaments, oh, around new years and march, and the first thing i'm going to do when i get home is call these people up and invite them to bid for the rights to our tournaments. thank you, have nice day.
you think that might motivate them to pull their heads out of the collective asses?
