Post subject: Katrina Victims Must Sit Out For One Year ...
Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 1:58 pm
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NCAA: No Breaks For Katrina Transfer Students Players Must Still Sit Out One Year
POSTED: 7:58 am EDT September 14, 2005
KINGSTON, R.I. -- Division 1 basketball and football players from schools closed by Hurricane Katrina will still have to sit out for a year if they transfer to another school that has offered admission.
NCAA president Miles Brand says the decision was made because the members of some teams, including at least one from Tulane, planned to transfer together to one school. Brand calls that "athletic looting" and says the NCAA won't stand for it.
A spokesman for the NCAA says some coaches at hurricane-affected schools in and around New Orleans had complained to the governing body that coaches at other schools had tried to raid their teams and recruit their players.
Seems you could get a break if your college was destroyed.
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i disagree with this. they are being penalized for an act of nature
how are they being penalized? From what I've read, the NCAA is relaxing restrictions to allow the affected teams to play this season.
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Ricardo Tubbs wrote:
Peeps wrote:
i disagree with this. they are being penalized for an act of nature
how are they being penalized? From what I've read, the NCAA is relaxing restrictions to allow the affected teams to play this season.
You got a little more info on that?
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The NCAA said last month that it would bend some rules to help students and schools deal with the hurricane, including letting students compete without attending classes.
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The NCAA has eased some other rules, including those prohibiting athletes from taking financial assistance from outside sources, and those that require students to be enrolled full-time at their college and university.
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Zutballs wrote:
They have to enforce this rule otherwise athletes would go to another school and never come back.
You could work around that. Perhaps .... Let them play at another school for the 2005 season. If they don't go back to their Gulf Coast school for the 2006 season, THEN they sit out.
But the stuff Ricardo listed means that if athletes want to keep playing, they have to play for a school that can't offer classes. I know the best athletes probably don't care about that, but a lot of athletes need their classes. "You were struck by Katrina. You can't play ball AND go to class, you have to choose which is most important to you." No other athletes in the country have to make that choice, and I'm far from convinced that Katrina victims should have to.
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It's the right call. Having them all joining one school would screw a lot of other teams over, and there's no way to 'place' players in other schools. The only viable option was to sit them for a year.
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B wrote:
Zutballs wrote:
They have to enforce this rule otherwise athletes would go to another school and never come back.
You could work around that. Perhaps .... Let them play at another school for the 2005 season. If they don't go back to their Gulf Coast school for the 2006 season, THEN they sit out.
NCAA is too complicated to begin with, just keep the rules the way they are otherwise it begins loopholes for other teams in the future.
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B wrote:
You could work around that. Perhaps .... Let them play at another school for the 2005 season. If they don't go back to their Gulf Coast school for the 2006 season, THEN they sit out.
So, rent a player like at the trade deadline in baseball? What about all the scholarships that have been used at every Division I school out there? How will they accommodate the athletes? That idead would never work.
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parchy wrote:
It's the right call. Having them all joining one school would screw a lot of other teams over, and there's no way to 'place' players in other schools. The only viable option was to sit them for a year.
As much as I detest the NCAA, I agree with you, it's the right call. See Baylor, mass exodus of scholarshiped athletes will screw those programs.
Post subject: Re: Katrina Victims Must Sit Out For One Year ...
Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 4:45 pm
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B wrote:
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A spokesman for the NCAA says some coaches at hurricane-affected schools in and around New Orleans had complained to the governing body that coaches at other schools had tried to raid their teams and recruit their players.
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i'm still trying to get over the fact that B posted in the sports forum.
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Cal Varnsen wrote:
i'm still trying to get over the fact that B posted in the sports forum.
I've got a solid 20 posts in here.
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