🏈 NCAA takes a crack at slimmer, more efficient rulebook

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View attachment 2372Bring back athlete-only dorms with unlimited food. Let coaches talk publicly about their recruits. Allow transfers in all sports to immediately play.
Those are among the ideas being discussed as the NCAA tries to produce a slimmer and more efficient rulebook, according to documents obtained by The Birmingham News.


An NCAA working group that's studying current rules released concepts to schools last week for discussion. The goal is to crack down on what the NCAA perceives as major threats to its principle of amateurism while legalizing smaller issues, some of which are currently unenforceable. "It's very complicated to take a 400-plus-page rule book and shrink it down to something sensible," NCAA President Mark Emmert said in The Indianapolis Star last month. "But we're going to do it."


For instance, the working group cautioned that its guiding principles related to academic standards could result in transfers being allowed to play immediately. That could happen in all sports by ending the residency requirement that makes transfers attend a new school for one year before
becoming eligible to play.

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[Bo]

Athletic dorms coming back would be a good thing. I also have no problem With them being able to transfer and play immediately.

 

[TerryP]

Athletic dorms coming back would be a good thing. I also have no problem With them being able to transfer and play immediately.

I hate to say it, but there has to be some stipulations with this proposed transfer rule change.

Let's take Keiwone Malone just as one example. He was kicked off the team because he was abusing pharmaceuticals. It's a violation of rules that applies not only to our team, to state law, but also NCAA regs.

When he was "released," should he have been eligible to play immediately for another D1 team? They mention academic standing as part of the "requirements" for immediate playing time. As much as I hate to say it, that's a rule that needs a little more detail.

 

[Bo]

Oh yeah if they've been suspended or kicked off the team, then I agree they shouldn't be able to play at the school they tranfer to either.

 

[psychojoe]

I liek the idea of athletic dorms coming back. That makes certain behavioral issues much easier tocontrol.

 

[Bo]

I like the idea of athletic dorms coming back. That makes certain behavioral issues much easier tocontrol.

With out a doubt. Hard (read impossible) to control curfews and such with them scattered out all over campus/town.

 

[Duder]

Athletic dorms never should've gone away. School just built huge lounges and such in their athletic buildings so, what has the rule helped? Much easier to monitor, enforce rules and such with everyone centrally located.

Who cares if they can eat whenever they want? Does the NCAA really think a food limit is enforced?

The transfer/play immediately is a catch-22

 

[UAgrad93]

I like the idea of the dorm coming back. As far as transfer, I think that the student must be in good academic standing and in good standing with the athletic program that they are wishing to leave.

 

[TerryP]

Athletic dorms never should've gone away. School just built huge lounges and such in their athletic buildings so, what has the rule helped? Much easier to monitor, enforce rules and such with everyone centrally located.

Who cares if they can eat whenever they want? Does the NCAA really think a food limit is enforced?

The transfer/play immediately is a catch-22

That is one area the student athlete is treated differently than the student.

I've seen the spreads these guys get...it's a meal.

 

[TerryP]

Here's something to consider as well. I didn't think about it last night.

We've seen conversations and "barbs" thrown around at coaches not releasing kids from their scholarships in the past.

If they do allow the transfer policy to change as proposed, how more often are we going to see different coaches refuse to release these kids?

 

[bamafan4ever]

Here's something to consider as well. I didn't think about it last night.

We've seen conversations and "barbs" thrown around at coaches not releasing kids from their scholarships in the past.

If they do allow the transfer policy to change as proposed, how more often are we going to see different coaches refuse to release these kids?

Probably more often and especially if the kid is transferring to another conference school.