NCAA finds itself in a tough spot

[Thecycle27]

The NCAA is officially at a crossroads.

The Universities individual and collectively are basically in bed with the shoe companies. They have ignored the influence the shoe companies have in the AAU and recruiting system. Players have always had value to the university and NCAA. The system has been ripe for corruption for decades. It used to be gamblers/booster of the program That was addressed. Now a new way to funnel money to players was created. A system that was easily identified when the one and done system began with the NBA limiting high school players access. The Universities and NCAA has chose to ignore the realities/complexities of big time college football and basketball recruiting.

At this point the entire system is compromised. The NCAA is saying a coach and athletic department are responsible to know about their program but the NCAA isn't responsible for a corrupt recruiting system they helped create. They allowed the AAU circuit to explode, somehow they thought having kids coached by people that have no credentials is educating or coaching young people was better than the high school system.

They have to scrap their compliance regulations. The biggest change hammer coaches for violations. Small violations immediate suspension. Major violations termination. Coach P being fired will have the biggest impact on other coaches. He will never coach again. Programs are immediately impacted and will suffer. Significant scholarship reductions for violations. Those 2 steps, structured properly, will change college sports. That is what it is going to take to reign this back in. Coaches have to be held completely accountable for their program. The current kids that had nothing to do with this, which is who the NCAA is trying to protect, are always that ones being penalized.

Find a way to pay kids that bring extra value to your program. Let the players for all sports capitalized on their image. Structure it in a way where the money earned is put into a trust upon graduation.

The NCAA must change.

 

[Mayoman]

The NCAA is officially at a crossroads.

The Universities individual and collectively are basically in bed with the shoe companies. They have ignored the influence the shoe companies have in the AAU and recruiting system. Players have always had value to the university and NCAA. The system has been ripe for corruption for decades. It used to be gamblers/booster of the program That was addressed. Now a new way to funnel money to players was created. A system that was easily identified when the one and done system began with the NBA limiting high school players access. The Universities and NCAA has chose to ignore the realities/complexities of big time college football and basketball recruiting.

At this point the entire system is compromised. The NCAA is saying a coach and athletic department are responsible to know about their program but the NCAA isn't responsible for a corrupt recruiting system they helped create. They allowed the AAU circuit to explode, somehow they thought having kids coached by people that have no credentials is educating or coaching young people was better than the high school system.

They have to scrap their compliance regulations. The biggest change hammer coaches for violations. Small violations immediate suspension. Major violations termination. Coach P being fired will have the biggest impact on other coaches. He will never coach again. Programs are immediately impacted and will suffer. Significant scholarship reductions for violations. Those 2 steps, structured properly, will change college sports. That is what it is going to take to reign this back in. Coaches have to be held completely accountable for their program. The current kids that had nothing to do with this, which is who the NCAA is trying to protect, are always that ones being penalized.

Find a way to pay kids that bring extra value to your program. Let the players for all sports capitalized on their image. Structure it in a way where the money earned is put into a trust upon graduation.

The NCAA must change.

Totally agree. But if the money from big media contacts (CBS&ESPN) keeps on flowing to the NCAA you will just be spitting in the wind.

Money is and always has been the root to all evil in CBB and most everything else in life that gets corrupted by it. The bigger the money....the bigger the corruption.

Don't now what the answer is here on earth. Can any human know?

 

[Hampton Roads 6]

NCAA is a very weak organization, who isn't smart enough to enforce their own rules, all in the quest for more money. When a school is caught cheating, NCAA normally slaps them on back of the hand with a feather, give a couple years probation, and that's it. NCAA needs to start "shutting some programs down for a couple seasons".

 

[Steve91562]

The problem with the "pay the athlete" scenarios is that the majority of schools, overall, do not make any money on the sports programs. Quite of few of them, in fact, are siphoning millions out of their student fees to help fund athletics. What is needed is effective minor leagues in the NBA and NFL, or those top 20-30 schools that actually make money in their collegiate sports programs need to break off and form their own division. That would sink a lot of traditional rivalries though, and break up long standing conferences. A start would be to abolish the one and done rule.

 

[KerryRhodes]

Its a quagmire.

The paying of players has gone on pratically since the beginnings.
The NCAA needs to sit with its member institutions and overhaul everything.

Atheletics brings billions of dollars to Universities.
Some athletes and their families want a cut.

Im sure both the NCAA and Schools can figure out something.
They make enough money to figure out to fix this mess.

 

[Thecycle27]

Shutting programs down does nothing, but hurt the entire community that had no part in the violation. The SMU situation deserved it because it was institutional. In that case the Universities are responsible. However, in most of these cases, especially at Louisville, it was a program coach or coaches, that made bad choices that led to the violations. Those individuals need to be dealt with swiftly by universities like Louisville did in this case. The university is paying huge salaries they should be required by the NCAA to have clauses in all coaches contracts that any NCAA violation committed by a coach or their assistants will result in ABC. I find it very interesting that even with what Louisville has gone through Pitino will get money.

The NCAA has to effectively take away their ability to do what they love, similar to what the FBI is doing by putting people in jail. When that occurs across the board coaches will fall in line.

The money aspect is a monster, no good answer how to compensate players.

 

[eastwood45789]

Universities should be providing higher education and amateur sports should be secondary. That hasn't happened in over 50 years.

 

[Thecycle27]

I have always supported the NCAA model, academics first and athletics second. Being a non-revenue athlete at Louisville there were no paying of players. Non revenue sports fit the NCAA model. You hardly ever see these issues in non-revenue sports. The problem is you can't fund the non-revenue sports without men's basketball and football. The University of Louisville relied on basketball for years to support all the other programs, trust me they didn't have much of a budget.

When Jurich came in he changed everything by making Louisville athletics the city of Louisville's pro team, marketing wise. The other significant change was Title IX, that forced universities to equally provide and fund women's sports. The only way to survive was through marketing and boosters. Jurich was the perfect fit at the perfect time. You know why all the coaches and players love him he built a program that took care of them. My biggest concern moving forward is will the BOT overreacts and mirco managing the program.

I can't stand the fact Louisville had idiot assistants that broke NCAA rules because the entire athletic department gets painted with a very broad brush. What happened isn't reflective of that department.