Wisdom of rule prohibiting tutoring.

TTJ

Preface: The rules are the rules. Whether they seem just or unjust, you follow them or you risk paying the price. Your coaching staff doesn't get to pick and choose which rules to follow. Ever.

But...

What kind of world do we live in when it's okay for schools, merchandisers, and bowl committees to lavish athletes with XBOXs, apparel, and Taj Mahal-like facilities, but you've got to do cloak-and-dagger shit to help a kid get some tutoring?

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The NCAA's futile efforts to protect amateurism will hopefully be its downfall.

Time for a new sytem.

RaceBannon

Because it wasn't about helping the kid

TTJ

RaceBannon said:

Because it wasn't about helping the kid

So? Handing out 85 scholarships (and innumerable perks) to revenue-sport athletes isn't "about helping the kid," either.

RaceBannon

Yes it is

CuntWaffle

He didn't pay for tutoring because he had the kids best interests in mind.

TTJ

But the kids-as-beneficiaries narrative permeates everything the NCAA says and does.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G40g9RTxurw

CuntWaffle

The problem is UW wouldn't pay $3000 for high school student who wasn't an athlete to get tutoring so they could get accepted into UW. Tosh was thinking in his own best interests, sure this could have been great for Basham, could have gone to college and gotten a degree to help him be successful later on in life. Lupoi couldn't have cared less about that though, he wanted to get results on the football field not in the classroom.

TierbsHsotBoobs

TTJ said:

Preface: The rules are the rules. Whether they seem just or unjust, you follow them or you risk paying the price. Your coaching staff doesn't get to pick and choose which rules to follow. Ever.

But...

What kind of world do we live in when it's okay for schools, merchandisers, and bowl committees to lavish athletes with XBOXs, apparel, and Taj Mahal-like facilities, but you've got to do cloak-and-dagger shit to help a kid get some tutoring?

Paying for high school tutoring isn't a college's business.

NYBE