NCAA's Jim Isch Should Be Fired Immediately

[407cane]

Why not drag race into it if it's true? The fact is that most major Division I players are Afro-Americans and a significant number of them come from deprived socio-economic backgrounds. Than you have a white guy like Mark Emmert who makes over $1.5 million plus expense accounts etc. telling a growing young black athlete that he's committing a crime if he accepts a steak from a friend while every other student in the university can. It makes no sense, these players are not amateurs they are low priced professionals if you put any real value on their college scholarships. I assume the university's believe their scholarships have value.

Your last line here makes the most sense. We all know that the rules on student athletes are questionable at best and something obviously needs to get changed. But is it not good enough that these kids coming from 'deprived socio-economic backgrounds' get a free college education worth up to 200k at places like miami? I'm not sticking up for the ncaa by any means but lets face facts here. Not everyone is a johnny manziel who will be in the headlines all the time, most are bench players who will never see the field/press/boosters. There are cases that blow up like they have within the last year or two but how much worse do you think college football would be if people were allowed to give players gifts/items/money/etc.?

IMO the problem with the NCAA doesn't necessarily lie in the rules they set but how biased they have been in enforcing them against certain schools...i.e. Auburn with Cam Newton (WHO PRETTY MUCH ADMITTED GETTING PAID), Oregon (a slap on the wrist..really???), UNC (Julius Peppers fiasco where his transcripts and grades were forged,paying recruits by good ol butch), and then USC gets hammered by sanctions which has crippled their recruiting classes the last two years (not by talent but by shear numbers, they had to tell kids to hit the road).

Not to mention the hypocrisy of the NCAA by selling jerseys, if you're going to set rules then follow those rules.

Overall though, I disagree with the race card your pulling here

 

[SoFlaSmitty]

Candy not all white people come from perfect homes or a great environment. I was born and raised in center city Philadelphia. Raised by my single mother with help from grandparents. I seen the struggle so I worked my *** of to get ino a good school and make something for myself. I didn't get an athletic scholarship, had to pay for my own meals at school. This isn't a race issue Mark isn't a slave owner controlling only Afro-American athletes there are white kids playing also that have come from the same areas as the black players with the same struggles. America will never be able to move forward till this kind of thinking stops.

 

[CandyCane]

Walter Byers, the executive director of the NCAA from 1952 to 1987. Now in retirement, Byers has seen the light. He said to writer Steve Wulf, "The coaches own the athletes' feet, the colleges own the athletes' bodies, and the supervisors retain the large rewards. That reflects a neoplantation mentality on the campuses." Byers believed that "the wheel of fortune is badly unbalanced in favor of the overseers and against the players.

Now that's from the former executive director of the NCAA and the first executive director.

 

[Canes2082]

 

[poncho0091]

Walter Byers, the executive director of the NCAA from 1952 to 1987. Now in retirement, Byers has seen the light. He said to writer Steve Wulf, "The coaches own the athletes' feet, the colleges own the athletes' bodies, and the supervisors retain the large rewards. That reflects a neoplantation mentality on the campuses." Byers believed that "the wheel of fortune is badly unbalanced in favor of the overseers and against the players.

Now that's from the former executive director of the NCAA and the first executive director.

Even if that were a legitimate thought process, in no way shape or form is that race related because all other race players fall under the same rules. Was the NCAA being racist when they let Cam slide? Seriously, your attempt for bringing race into the argument is a stretch at best.