The NCAA is a sham

[ChemEGopher]

and it's run by a bunch of Myles Brand clones so it will probably never change. Coaches switching schools after one or two years with zero consequences. Investigations into cheating programs that take years to complete. A stupid NCAA title game that leaves three other undefeated teams with no chance at winning it. Pushing student-athletes into worthless majors tha provide them with no real world skills even though 95+% never become professional athletes. Everything about it is corrupt and it just keeps getting worse.

 

[Khaliq]

$800K is a fairly significant consequence. Tennessee should have negotiated a much bigger buyout.

 

[goldengophers]

and it's run by a bunch of Myles Brand clones so it will probably never change. Coaches switching schools after one or two years with zero consequences. Investigations into cheating programs that take years to complete. A stupid NCAA title game that leaves three other undefeated teams with no chance at winning it. Pushing student-athletes into worthless majors tha provide them with no real world skills even though 95+% never become professional athletes. Everything about it is corrupt and it just keeps getting worse.

I agree, major college sports are becoming a joke and the Kiffin debacle pushes it to yet another level. Lane Kiffin and Jim Calapari are now leading two of the most successful programs in college sports...something is wrong about that. At least the professional level doesn't try to claim something it isn't...Time to overhaul the system.

 

[DLguy]

and it's run by a bunch of Myles Brand clones so it will probably never change. Coaches switching schools after one or two years with zero consequences. Investigations into cheating programs that take years to complete. A stupid NCAA title game that leaves three other undefeated teams with no chance at winning it. Pushing student-athletes into worthless majors tha provide them with no real world skills even though 95+% never become professional athletes. Everything about it is corrupt and it just keeps getting worse.

Not sure what you mean by this. The schools provide the majors, not the NCAA. And a school does not make a major specifically for athletes. Please provide an example of this, otherwise it is just false. Any major at any school is available to any student at that school. It is the students job to make sure they are qualified to get into that major. And the NCAA ensures that a student is on track and declares a major. That gets the player to do the necessary work to hopefully graduate some day. If they dont, or choose a major that they wont benefit from is their own damn fault, not the NCAA's.

 

[RodentRampage]

and it's run by a bunch of Myles Brand clones so it will probably never change. Coaches switching schools after one or two years with zero consequences. Investigations into cheating programs that take years to complete. A stupid NCAA title game that leaves three other undefeated teams with no chance at winning it. Pushing student-athletes into worthless majors tha provide them with no real world skills even though 95+% never become professional athletes. Everything about it is corrupt and it just keeps getting worse.

The consequences can only be what is stipulated in the contract. Colleges could ask coaches to sign stricter contracts, but they would have a hard time attracting coaches. Other colleges would be eager to sign them to looser contracts.

I'm for a tournament, but it's not some cabal in a smoke-filled room that the NCAA that is dictating this, it's the member institutions. If they can be persuaded to support a tournament, we will have one.

If the students care about and want an education, they will get it. But the problems really begin at the high school level, with athletes allowed to get away with anything, and never failing classes because there will be fans with pitchforks and torches if the star athlete is disciplined.

I do agree that the has a problem with how it does investigations. They seem to let the top programs get away with anything, with a slap on the wrist.

 

[Bob_Loblaw]

This isn't college football this is the real world. If an employer wants it to be difficult for his/her employee's to up and move, they can negotiate those terms into the contract. Part of the problem is that the colleges don't want huge buyouts on their end if they decide to can these coaches before their contracts expire.

 

[RodentRampage]

The NFL should start a developmental league for athletes who have NFL potential, but either don't want a college education or don't belong in college.