tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7536140049505603887.post8067665573656859636..comments2024-01-26T03:26:54.060-05:00Comments on O-pinion: Academics v. athletics: NCAA, one-and-doneUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7536140049505603887.post-25007065076424396892012-04-05T09:38:41.925-04:002012-04-05T09:38:41.925-04:00The NCAA should either let the kids sign up for th...The NCAA should either let the kids sign up for the pros or give a college three year's of time...I agree similar to baseball. Colleges however should do a better job at raising the requirements for athletes to participate in college sports...NCAA raise the academic standards for athlete's to play college sports.josty24https://www.blogger.com/profile/18442915972116060483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7536140049505603887.post-52301671759478275932012-04-05T09:19:58.420-04:002012-04-05T09:19:58.420-04:00If the NCAA adminstrator rogues in Indianapolis we...If the NCAA adminstrator rogues in Indianapolis were really serious about fixing the broken system and saving mega billions of tax dollars for colleges and ataxpayers they would end all athletic scholarships and force all member schools to use walk-ons only who are academically already qualified. <br /><br />Pay to play the right way. Dont be surprised if this would not only clean up the NCAA and college system and make it more proficient but college sports would actually be much better.<br /><br />Keep the smart jocks in college and send the dumb jocks to NBA and NFL farm league systems to be weeded out like MLB has done for the past 150 yrs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7536140049505603887.post-58861274178420026692012-04-04T17:48:51.970-04:002012-04-04T17:48:51.970-04:00Sports are a cancer that is destroying the UNC Sys...Sports are a cancer that is destroying the UNC System.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7536140049505603887.post-78472353001050254692012-04-04T14:22:06.785-04:002012-04-04T14:22:06.785-04:008:02 - Right On!
8:47 - Ol' Roy pointedly avo...8:02 - Right On!<br /><br />8:47 - Ol' Roy pointedly avoids recruiting players who have "handlers" (see: John Wall, Nerlens Noel), serious academic irregularities (Eric Bledsoe, Derrick Rose) or social infirmities (DeMarcus Cousins). Even Anthony Davis gave World Wide Wes, who was sitting behind the UK bench Monday night, a post-game hug.<br /><br />Yes, World Wide Wes, the elephant in the room - John Calipari's "agent", who gets a cut of PayPal Cal's hefty contract as a reward for following him from Memphis to Lexington.Garth Vaderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03575150785051894691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7536140049505603887.post-22450265937484813682012-04-04T08:47:16.718-04:002012-04-04T08:47:16.718-04:00Fannie - Kentucky did not make the one and done ru...Fannie - Kentucky did not make the one and done rule. The NBA player's Association did. Calipari has just taken better advantage of it that other coaches because he is the best recruiter and keeps getting the best players each year. Duke seems to be trying to get on the one and done road now and old Roy would be tickled to have have the one and done kids from this year's Kentucky team.<br /><br />The kids leaving Kentucky early are going to make more money in the next few years that most college graduates make in a lifetime. Should they stay in school and turn down that money and take a chance on getting hurt?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7536140049505603887.post-16650036150674324452012-04-04T08:02:22.384-04:002012-04-04T08:02:22.384-04:00Didnt Shinn pay to build Knights baseball park jus...Didnt Shinn pay to build Knights baseball park just over the line at Carowinds and bring Triple A for the first time? Didnt PSLs pay for BOA? Didnt Smith pay for his race track? <br /><br />Taxpayers are being conned again on some stupid downtown baseball park by the usual suspects cramming everything inside the belt sardine can. What a joke.<br /><br />It is 10 times quicker easier and safer to go I-485-I-77 to Knights stadium that is still basically a new facility.<br /><br />Bottom line a minor league system is the answer for the NBA and NFL not college. <br />Owners can pay their own stadiums or arenas or rent existing ones already built.<br /><br />The least govt involvement the better and jobs are jobs for the idiot complaining about low them being low pay who probably wouldnt work in a pie factory. <br />Funny owners never never have a problem filling these "low grade" jobs do they?.<br />Diff stroke for diff folks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7536140049505603887.post-65333392249974335122012-04-04T07:39:39.806-04:002012-04-04T07:39:39.806-04:00I always thought of the word graduate as an active...I always thought of the word <i>graduate</i> as an active verb - something one did for him/herself.<br /><br />It now appears <i>graduate</i> has become something done to you or a state of being. e.g. <i>This school graduates 50% of its athletes.</i><br /><br />If <i>graduate</i> is now a procedure performed by the administrative class rather than the achievement of the student then couldn't I as a college president simply dumb down my curriculum to graduate everyone?<br /><br />After all, isn't that how we got the athletes into the school in the first place?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7536140049505603887.post-67965234127022200242012-04-03T23:30:30.905-04:002012-04-03T23:30:30.905-04:00Ms. Flono,
Which institution of higher learning t...Ms. Flono,<br /><br />Which institution of higher learning taught you to insert that superfluous comma into your last sentence?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7536140049505603887.post-1871047064568731202012-04-03T20:46:03.368-04:002012-04-03T20:46:03.368-04:00Blame the NBA for requiring these guys to be a yea...Blame the NBA for requiring these guys to be a year removed from high school to be draft eligible. If you can't sign a contract for a year, you have to make money somewhere. The NCAA offers that place to have living expenses and disposable income covered for that year. College shouldn't be the the D-League for the NBA.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7536140049505603887.post-14015416980046726562012-04-03T19:46:19.290-04:002012-04-03T19:46:19.290-04:005:47 must be related to John Connaughton: "wh...5:47 must be related to John Connaughton: "while taxpayers save billions".<br /><br />Uh, taxpayers would be on the hook for all the new minor league arenas and the infrastructure and traffic management personnel to support them. Plus most of the "jobs" created are low-dollar ticket takers and ushers.Garth Vaderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03575150785051894691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7536140049505603887.post-62357954501111498842012-04-03T19:45:56.407-04:002012-04-03T19:45:56.407-04:00I don't believe the NCAA has any restrictions ...I don't believe the NCAA has any restrictions on athletes going directly from college to pros. The restiction would be that after playing as a professional, you can't regain amateur status in the same sport, and I have no problem with that. With regard to graduation rates, I think the best way to address that is to have a minimum graduation rate for participation in post season play, including conference championships.<br /><br />The NBA doesn't care, and in fact uses the present situation to enhance their brand. The get free publicity for the league because of all the "who's coming out, who is staying" and whether a kid can read or not, or whether kids in high school learn to devalue higher education because all their heroes blow it off is so far down on the list of NBA concerns it is invisible. Point in fact, before this years tournement even began, the NBA itself publicized a mock draft based on who might be leaving early. So, my idea is, graduate at least 75% of atheletes within 6 years or kiss championship hopes goodbye. To turn our major universities into farm clubs for the NBA is absurd. The NBA actually has farm teams with the D-League, so it's not about player development, it's about creating star value before a kid even gets in the league. Kentucky should be ashamed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7536140049505603887.post-7068202137882161112012-04-03T18:14:58.159-04:002012-04-03T18:14:58.159-04:00Basketball should be designed just like baseball. ...Basketball should be designed just like baseball. If a kid is good enough to enter the NBA draft out of high school, then they enter and no college. If they sign an NLI, they must complete 3 years of college. NBA must back proposal and not allow anyone playing outside the US to enter NBA until they are 21 years old or have satisfied the requirement so no skipping off to Europe for a year and then back. Fact is, most of those players lack maturity and the skills needed after basketball to be successful citizens. NBA has money for incoming millionaires to be trained in financial management. Most kids get into trouble with the entourage of people supporting them and the barrage of people coming out of the woodwork looking for "help". College basketball WOULD be more exciting with players playing the minimum of 3 years.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7536140049505603887.post-76598105547779080482012-04-03T17:58:20.418-04:002012-04-03T17:58:20.418-04:00http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/...http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/lsu-morris-claiborne-scored-four-wonderlic-test-175829326.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7536140049505603887.post-7701178048895178722012-04-03T17:57:47.051-04:002012-04-03T17:57:47.051-04:00I agree with the above, but I believe,as in other ...I agree with the above, but I believe,as in other sports, baseball, ice hockey, soccer, just to name a few, there should not be an age restriction for entering pro-sports. The NCAA could polish its image by merely allowing these young men and women to proceed directly from high school to the pros without restrictions. What Kentucky does is to take what the rules provide. Is Kentucky taking advantage? Well ,yes. However Kentucky did not create the rules.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7536140049505603887.post-29539445056242036452012-04-03T17:47:34.484-04:002012-04-03T17:47:34.484-04:00Blame athletes, schools, and administration plus p...Blame athletes, schools, and administration plus professional sports equally for causing such fraud corruption while abusing and misusing NCAA colleges and universities as a training farm system for the pros. <br /><br />Make one and done NONE and DONE.<br /><br />America needs all the quality educated brains it can muster to compete with the Chinese and others in the future. End the sports fraud and corruption.<br /><br />Develop minor league basketball and football like baseball in 100s of small to mid sized cities across America and open 1000s of new jobs in the process. Those who make the grade out of high school earn a paycheck on their way to the pros while taxpayers save billions.<br /><br />That is the solution.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7536140049505603887.post-37140410341626796862012-04-03T17:45:17.948-04:002012-04-03T17:45:17.948-04:00I could not agree more... Kentucky's "phi...I could not agree more... Kentucky's "philosophy" of "student athletes" has tarnished the NCAA's propaganda beyond recognition. Seeing it as anything more than the "training league" for the NBA is simply a joke.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com