O'Bannon v. NCAA

I hate the NCAA with a passion. Dishonest band of crooks and their double standards. They've screwed St. John's one too many times. I can't count all the things that SU got away with. Back in the days of the old Southwest Conference, all the football players in Texas, A&M, Tech, Christian, would attend the first day of class, and never would have to attend class again. Nobody was allowed to fail the players, that is if they still wanted a job teaching. The old NCAA got their chunk from the networks, so they turned their heads like nothing was happening. I don't think anyone (players, coaches, broadcasters etc) have one ounce of respect for those scumbags.
 
You talk about the NCAA like it's some evil body with a mind of it's own; it does what the University Presidents tell it to do! It's not run by the government or some outside corporation; the presidents hire the management and create the rules

I'm not saying it's a well run institution, it's not. But place the blame where it's deserved; with the schools. It's their greed. The president of the NCAA and his investigators don't make any more money if Reggie Bush is eligible, USC does.
 
who says the presidents are clean?

the ncaa is a multi billion dollar business that doles out largess to member schools. the presidents are like dogs who had just swallowed a steak dinner. you give a dog a piece of meat and you know who it hunds with. the ncaa fights to keep the amateur status of players who greatly enrich the organization and the schools while looking the other way when favored universities are muddied.

i'm sure loyola marymount's president would like to see evenhandedness. it's not happening.

it's sickening to see thousands of dollars fall from an envelope sent to a kentucky prospect with no real penalty...or ohio state constantly breaking rules with little consequence. meanwhile, we're slapped around after one of our worst players got to keep his stipend because he cried hardship and someone on the staff bought the hustle.

obannon...you're the man!!
 
Great article. It does make me wonder how many kids would have stayed in school longer if they were getting more compensation or for that matter how many kids before the one-and-out rule was created would have actually gone to school and maybe developed the skills needed to be a pro. I know there is the argument that they get free room, board and education but the fact of the matter is they bring the school more money than they ever have spent on them.
 
NCAA hypocrisy with regard to NCAA blind eye towards UNC academic double standards for its athletes.

1. Athletes were steered to no-show classes and independent studies in the Department of African and Afro-American Studies, among the laundry list of academic chicanery. Sixty-seven percent of students enrolled in 54 no-show classes were athletes, according to The News & Observer. Some classes didn’t exist. Grades were changed.
Over the weekend, the Raleigh newspaper revealed a series of emails between former department Chairman Julius Nyang’oro and the university’s group that tutored athletes. The notes showed a close relationship — Nyang’oro was offered everything from football tickets to the opportunity to watch games from the sideline — that helped guide athletes through the path of least academic resistance.
see
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news...dal-speak/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS

2. North Carolina has at least 54 tainted classes. How many athletes were given free grades from the Department of African and Afro-American Studies? We don't know. UNC never wanted to find out, but the school has no choice now. The school mustered a halfhearted search for the truth earlier this year when it found those 54 tainted classes, but its search went back only to 2007. Despite efforts from the Raleigh News & Observer that suggested otherwise, the school held firm that the academic fraud started in 2007.
See
http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoo...-prospered-and-now-its-time-for-the-reckoning
 
Does this mean if the NCAA loses , the costs of the suit would be pro rated amongst the member schools? If so I'm guessing the schools with the big time football programs would be charged with the biggest payouts. Is this the kind of case that takes years to settle? Law school grads, help us out please.
 
I hate the NCAA with a passion. Dishonest band of crooks and their double standards. They've screwed St. John's one too many times. I can't count all the things that SU got away with. Back in the days of the old Southwest Conference, all the football players in Texas, A&M, Tech, Christian, would attend the first day of class, and never would have to attend class again. Nobody was allowed to fail the players, that is if they still wanted a job teaching. The old NCAA got their chunk from the networks, so they turned their heads like nothing was happening. I don't think anyone (players, coaches, broadcasters etc) have one ounce of respect for those scumbags.
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Hate to burst your bubble, but same no show stuff was going on at SJU when I was there in the early 80s.
 
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