Where you fail to make the connection is that when teams use players that should’ve been academically ineligible due to fraudulent activities, they are cheating “on the field”.I agree with every word. They can penalize for violating practice or recruiting rules. Or cheating on the field.
But academic or any non-athletic issues should be handled by the school, conference, or whatever governing body/agency.
Where you fail to make the connection is that when teams use players that should’ve been academically ineligible due to fraudulent activities, they are cheating “on the field”.
The difference, as I understand it, between UNC and ND is that UNC arranged cupcake classes for players but allowed access to all students (supposedly) while ND had a member of the football staff doing coursework for players.
All that said...f*ck the NCAA.
Then start a thread about ND being a bunch of hypocritical backstabbers...I will support you. There article on the NCAA is spot on and needed to be said.
I'd love to see the P5 schools break away from the NCAA.
I'm not sure how Title IX works, but if the other non-revenue sports stayed within the NCAA and the revenue sports broke away and had their own governing body I wonder if schools would be bound to the same Title IX rules (i.e. would schools have to keep the mandate of having equal scholarships for men and woman - when football, w/ 85 scholarships, kills the opportunity for most schools having multiple men's sports such as soccer, wrestling, lacrosse, etc, sports that most schools have for woman).
When I saw the vid of Copelands mom get up and walk off the first thing I thought was there is a woman that just lost a ton of payoff money. NCAA is a joke from stem to stern, rotten to the core and everybody knows it.