Comments on: APR: CLUSTER-BOMBING WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES

By: shane

shane — Sat, 10 May 2008 17:14:51 +0000

Some of these so called Div 1A teams do not have the attendence at games, the capital, the fan base, or the tradition to even be in Div 1A. They become “tune up” or homecoming opponents for the “big boys” in the BCS conferences, Always playing on the road for the paycheck. I do see a problem with the NCAA’s enforcement of the APR rules, letting all but a couple of token BCS teams slide while penalizing the small schools, but then I have never known the NCAA to be fair. I agree with #35, except I wouldn’t say that college football on the BCS level is there to train future NFL players, it is there to generate huge sums of money. The NCAA could care less about the athletes.

By: the croominator

the croominator — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:44:58 +0000

Pelican Pants,

The whole idea is that colleges shouldn’t be in the business of training future professional athletes, but educating students who just so happen to play sports in order to have their tuition paid *rolls eyes until head starts to hurt* The NCAA puts on this act that leaving school early for the NFL/NBA/MLB is baaaaad…otherwise Congress would yank their not-for-profit status.

By: Charlestownecock

Charlestownecock — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:42:04 +0000

This picture really shows why the ancients thought that these instances were showing the moods of the gods. If I didn’t know any better, I would see that and think that I seriously pissed off some deity.

By: NCT

NCT — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:01:01 +0000

@ Mr. Pelican Pants #21

“Even the police and government has some form of checks and balances”

Where have you been the last seven years? Checks and balances in government are soooo 20th century. Dick Cheney and John Roberts don’t have time for that shit.

By: Kecalf Bailey

Kecalf Bailey — Fri, 09 May 2008 03:13:50 +0000

Sorry, I keep misreading what you are saying.

I get it now.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 09 May 2008 03:13:29 +0000

I thought this article was a little light on the facts, compared to the usual swindle productions.

The schools that care about academics (Stanford, Rutgers, Duke) are on top…. it looks like the system works.

Are you seriously suggesting that there is a NCAA conspiracy against non-BCS teams?

By: Kecalf Bailey

Kecalf Bailey — Fri, 09 May 2008 03:11:31 +0000

That system, or a system like it, already exists, but I thought you were saying that the tax paid by Oklahoma would go to pay for La. Tech’s “Academic Support Center.”

I understand that the NCAA can do that with the money they make on TV contracts etc., but do they have the power to literally take money from a member institutions AD and redistribute it?
It wouldn’t surprise me…but I’m ignorant here.

By: DevilGrad

DevilGrad — Fri, 09 May 2008 03:02:25 +0000

That’s why you levy the “luxury tax” on expenditures, not profits (a term the NCAA hates precisely because it’s so clear). If you don’t want to ship your money to UAB, you cut the football budget to the tax cap and spend more on your other sports.

By: Kecalf Bailey

Kecalf Bailey — Fri, 09 May 2008 02:56:32 +0000

i didn’t word that right, I mean that the Alabama women’s tennis team is funded by the Alabama football team. The money stays in each respective university, but goes back to not for profit, Title IX sports.

By: Kecalf Bailey

Kecalf Bailey — Fri, 09 May 2008 02:54:53 +0000

The problem with a luxury tax like that is that many smaller sports porgrams at university are kept afloat by the profit made from football and men’s basketball. There is already a funneling of profits back into the non-spectator sports, so the NCAA’s applying of a luxury tax would really hurt those sports for the sake of UAB football.

By: DevilGrad

DevilGrad — Fri, 09 May 2008 02:33:07 +0000

Re #19: How about an MLB-style “luxury tax” on football budgets in excess of some percentage (say 250% for the sake of argument) of the all Division I-A average, with the proceeds to be funneled back into academic support programs at the HBCUs and other small fry?

If BCS ADs want to run athletic departments that look like they were operated by Mark Cuban or George Steinbrenner, then they ought to be willing to live with one more aspect of creeping professionalization.

By: Way Up North

Way Up North — Fri, 09 May 2008 02:10:35 +0000

That’s not Saban. Only Jackie Sherrill could have an aura that evil.

By: SpookyJuice

SpookyJuice — Fri, 09 May 2008 00:55:07 +0000

Isn’t EDSBS live supposed to be tonight?

By: Mr. Pelican Pants

Mr. Pelican Pants — Fri, 09 May 2008 00:27:54 +0000

And looking at that, it looks like the aftermath of that police chase I just finished in “GTA IV”…….I need help….I’m addicted….

By: MCab

MCab — Thu, 08 May 2008 23:57:14 +0000

And from this storm is where we get our BCS rankings from . . .