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NCAA - slowly ruining football (rules changes - merged)

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Dryden said:
All proposed rule changes that will be voted on this year:

http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources...mmittee-explore-future-technological-advances


Officials are to treat illegal equipment issues – such as jerseys tucked under the shoulder pads and writing on eye black – by making the player leave the field for one play. The player may remain in the game if his team takes a timeout to correct the equipment
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The NCAA has determined that the mere sight of Ezekiel Elliot's abs presents an unfair competitive advantage.
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Well it is unfair. Imagine those poor defenders. Not only will they become insanely jealous that they will never have abs half as manly as Zeke, the very idea of trying to tackle those abs must be demoralizing.

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http://fanbuzz.com/story/ncaa-confe...nsidering-reinstating-freshman-ineligibility/
Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby [told CBS] there is “almost a uniform acknowledgment that there’s kids in college that don’t have any interest in an education and don’t have the proper education to take advantage of an education.” Bowlsby said freshman ineligibility would have a “profoundly positive effect” on football and men’s basketball by easing the transition from high school without the distractions of competition.

Freshman ineligibility “would do a lot to restore credibility and integrity to college basketball,” said Scott, whose conference is also studying the potential impact in other sports. “It would demonstrate they’re students first on those teams and they’re in class and getting grades that would keep them eligible. The reality of one-and-done is it’s not even one. It’s like half or three-quarters (of a school year) and done.”
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was linked on mgoblow. WTF? that's a ship that sailed long ago.
 
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Palpie said:
http://fanbuzz.com/story/ncaa-confe...nsidering-reinstating-freshman-ineligibility/

was linked on mgoblow. WTF? that's a ship that sailed long ago.
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Ha! Why doesn't the Big 12 just say, "Hey! Recruits!!! If you come here, we will fight for you to not be allowed to play football for your freshman year!" If I'm a coach for a team outside of the Big 12, and I'm recruiting a kid against a Big 12 team, I just got a pretty good thing to talk about. If I'm a coach for a Big 12 team, I'm pretty pissed at the commissioner.
 
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So, let me get this straight..... there are college athletes who have little to no desire to attain an education or they don't even have the proper qualifications to gain admission? Shocking. It seems fairly simple to me - ditch the kids who aren't doing the work in the classroom. Schools never seem to have a problem ditching non-athletes who can't cut it.....

If the kid isn't prepared coming out of high school, don't admit the kids in the first place.

Using the freshman eligibility thing as a means to reduce the one-and-done kids? No, there will just be more kids going elsewhere to play for a year or two out of high school instead wasting a years or two pretending to be a student.

Interesting that MLB does not have these same issues. The difference? IMO, it's the minor league system. The NFL & NBA both need to implement their own minor league system and stop using the college game as their development level.
 
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AJHawkfan said:
Interesting that MLB does not have these same issues. The difference? IMO, it's the minor league system. The NFL & NBA both need to implement their own minor league system and stop using the college game as their development level.
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They can't just "start" a minor league system. Why would they want to anyway? It's expensive and time-intensive. The current system doesn't cost the NFL a dime. How is anybody going to convince them to spend billions of dollars on what would likely be a colossal business failure?

Keep in mind that MLB didn't just go out and "start" a minor league system. The minor leagues and their clubs already existed in smaller cities and towns all over the country. It only became a farm system in the sense that we now know it when Branch Rickey and the Cardinals (an individual club, not an entire league, mind you) went out and started purchasing clubs and/or creating agreements that fed those players into the parent club. They didn't just go out and create a six-tier network of farm teams from nothing.

AJHawkfan said:
So, let me get this straight..... there are college athletes who have little to no desire to attain an education or they don't even have the proper qualifications to gain admission? Shocking. It seems fairly simple to me - ditch the kids who aren't doing the work in the classroom. Schools never seem to have a problem ditching non-athletes who can't cut it.....

If the kid isn't prepared coming out of high school, don't admit the kids in the first place.
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Recruiting is sometimes a race to the bottom. If one school doesn't go after that kid with one-of-a-kind athletic ability and a room temperature IQ their competitor will. Tighter standards only motivates some institutions to find ways around them. IMO, the solution isn't to somehow force athletes to be better students - it's to stop pretending that they need to be. Divorce big-time college athletics from academics even further. Allow the kids who don't want to go to school to draw a paycheck from the program and just play ball, and the ones who are interested in academics and want to make that investment in their future to continue under a system similar to the current one.

AJHawkfan said:
Using the freshman eligibility thing as a means to reduce the one-and-done kids? No, there will just be more kids going elsewhere to play for a year or two out of high school instead wasting a years or two pretending to be a student.
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It think this is the way it's going to trend for basketball. The game has been slowly globalizing anyway. The unfortunate thing for football is that there is really nowhere else to go besides Canada, since professional domestic minor leagues are not viable and no other part of the world gives a damn about the sport.
 
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jlb1705 said:
Allow the kids who don't want to go to school to draw a paycheck from the program and just play ball, and the ones who are interested in academics and want to make that investment in their future to continue under a system similar to the current one.
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Because it was already tried? It's how the Boilermakers got their name and, if I'm not mistaken, the Harvard of the West was known to use a ringer or two when they were building their overall record.
 
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cincibuck said:
Because it was already tried? It's how the Boilermakers got their name and, if I'm not mistaken, the Harvard of the West was known to use a ringer or two when they were building their overall record.
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Did that approach fail or did university presidents simply turn up their noses at it?

It was a more intellectually honest system than the one they're currently trying to hold together.
 
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