NCAA approves new rule

[NoKoolAidForME]

The board approved a measure allowing conferences to vote on whether or not to provide $2,000 in spending money. The NCAA will call this the full cost of attendance. They are basing this off of the stipends that are often received by student on non-athletic scholarships.

 

• Individual schools can now choose to award multi-year scholarships. Scholarships may not be revoked based on athletic performance.

 

• Schools that fail to meet the Academic Progress Rate cut-line will be ineligible for postseason play, including bowl games. The cut-line will be increased from the current 900 to 930 in four years.

 

• Eligibility requirements increased from a 2.0 GPA to 2.3 for incoming freshman and 2.5 for junior college transfers.

 

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/st...-rules-changes

[Caven]

I like it. Especially the multi-year scholarships.

[It'sNotAFakeID]

Not bad rule changes.

[Landlord]

I like it all except that the $2,000 stipend idea is absolutely pathetic.

[Notre Dame Joe]

It may cut down on oversigning. Bama can't offer a 1 year when someone else guarantees 4.

[husker_99]

I like it all except that the $2,000 stipend idea is absolutely pathetic.

 

The stipend can't be too much or you would have to eliminate scholarships outright.

[Landlord]

I like it all except that the $2,000 stipend idea is absolutely pathetic.

 

The stipend can't be too much or you would have to eliminate scholarships outright.

 

 

The stipend should be $0, ie, shouldn't exist.

[Malth]

In June of 1970, Bill Veeck, a renegade baseball owner, took the stand for the plaintiff in the case of Flood v. Kuhn, in which St. Louis Cardinal outfielder Curt Flood essentially sued major league baseball to break the power of the "reserve system," a pernicious practice that bound a player to one team for as long as that one team wanted to keep him. It was this system of, at best, involuntary servitude on which the business of baseball had remained a rigged game in favor of management for over a century.

 

Veeck thought the system doomed. Sooner or later, he believed, a judge, or somebody else in authority that didn't give a damn about sitting in the owner's box for Opening Day, was going to get a good look at the system. That person probably then would spend four or five minutes laughing so hard that they nearly fainted, and then that person would throw out the whole system for the fraud that it was. Better to eliminate the reserve system gradually, Veeck testified. (He recommended a system of seven-year contracts, much like the system that had prevailed at one time in Hollywood.) That way, he thought, the owners could control the transition between the reserve system and whatever came next. Veeck also pointed out that the reserve system, as it was practiced at the time, ran counter to some cherished American beliefs about the country's values.

 

 

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7177921/the-beginning-end-ncaa

[Alamo City Husker]

In June of 1970, Bill Veeck, a renegade baseball owner, took the stand for the plaintiff in the case of Flood v. Kuhn, in which St. Louis Cardinal outfielder Curt Flood essentially sued major league baseball to break the power of the "reserve system," a pernicious practice that bound a player to one team for as long as that one team wanted to keep him. It was this system of, at best, involuntary servitude on which the business of baseball had remained a rigged game in favor of management for over a century.

 

Veeck thought the system doomed. Sooner or later, he believed, a judge, or somebody else in authority that didn't give a damn about sitting in the owner's box for Opening Day, was going to get a good look at the system. That person probably then would spend four or five minutes laughing so hard that they nearly fainted, and then that person would throw out the whole system for the fraud that it was. Better to eliminate the reserve system gradually, Veeck testified. (He recommended a system of seven-year contracts, much like the system that had prevailed at one time in Hollywood.) That way, he thought, the owners could control the transition between the reserve system and whatever came next. Veeck also pointed out that the reserve system, as it was practiced at the time, ran counter to some cherished American beliefs about the country's values.

 

 

http://www.grantland...inning-end-ncaa

 

 

Good read. The point about college costs is valid, you would have thought the "occupiers" would have figured this out by now.

[Malth]

Pretty sure they already have.

[Alamo City Husker]

Pretty sure they already have.

 

 

Then they should "occupy" the universities that gave them their worthless degrees and took them to the bank at the same time.