What's next for the U?

[hungan1]

Big money and big time college basketball and football seem to attract the best and the worse. The NCAA makes a lot of money. Money corrupts and fuels the hypocrisy of the NCAA.

Now we are witnessing an escalation of the facilities arms race. With it comes more pressure to win. What is the breaking point? Sooner or later something has to give. If you are a lower echelon Power 5 school, you may probably end up considering dropping football and basketball, and possibly sports all together.

Cheating, sex scandals. You hear it all the time. Some athletes act like gods. They think they can get away with sex-exploitation and every thing else. When athletes get caught, how punishment is administered depends on the severity of the crime and whether you are an athlete at a major powerhouse university. I would not be surprised if things get shuffled under the carpet in some schools.

We have witnessed the uneven enforcement of NCAA sanctions for violations. If you are the University Of Minnesota basketball team, you vacate wins. The University Of North Carolina can get away with murder. Baylor, tOSU, Oklahoma, Alabama who have powerful boosters and are regional political forces probably can get away with more or receive lesser sanctions.

Is the sex scandal we are witnessing unraveling right before our very eyes at the U ubiquitous in big time college football and basketball? I think it is.

Can you change the culture at the U?

I don't honestly know. This is the culture of big time basketball and football. This is not an indictment against all athletes. There are very many decent student athletes that play the game honorably and derived great benefit from it.

How do we go about making systemic changes at the U? Can we do a better job recruiting and field a competitive team? What measures can the U implement to change the culture? Maybe you can't, but you can put in controls. For some kids that we recruit, this may be happening in their HS and they think sex-exploitation is normal behavior.

No program is immune from the scandal we are witnessing. Somehow, some universities have a better handle and keep their athletes on the straight and narrow path.

The AD and the U have a big mess in their hands. This is their opportunity to institute the changes. Let's hope that they are not spineless.

The University Of San Francisco went to the very extreme and dropped big time college basketball all together.

San Francisco Drops Its Basketball ProgramGordon S. White Jr. - New York Times July 30 1982
http://www.nytimes.com/1982/07/30/sports/san-francisco-drops-its-basketball-program.html?pagewanted=all

 

[Maverick]

Big money and big time college basketball and football seem to attract the best and the worse. The NCAA makes a lot of money. Money corrupts and fuels the hypocrisy of the NCAA.

Now we are witnessing an escalation of the facilities arms race. With it comes more pressure to win. What is the breaking point? Sooner or later something has to give. If you are a lower echelon Power 5 school, you may probably end up considering dropping football and basketball, and possibly sports all together.

Cheating, sex scandals. You hear it all the time. Some athletes act like gods. They think they can get away with sex-exploitation and every thing else. When athletes get caught, how punishment is administered depends on the severity of the crime and whether you are an athlete at a major powerhouse university. I would not be surprised if things get shuffled under the carpet in some schools.

We have witnessed the uneven enforcement of NCAA sanctions for violations. If you are the University Of Minnesota basketball team, you vacate wins. The University Of North Carolina can get away with murder. Baylor, tOSU, Oklahoma, Alabama who have powerful boosters and are regional political forces probably can get away with more or receive lesser sanctions.

Is the sex scandal we are witnessing unraveling right before our very eyes at the U ubiquitous in big time college football and basketball? I think it is.

Can you change the culture at the U?

I don't honestly know. This is the culture of big time basketball and football. This is not an indictment against all athletes. There are very many decent student athletes that play the game honorably and derived great benefit from it.

How do we go about making systemic changes at the U? Can we do a better job recruiting and field a competitive team? What measures can the U implement to change the culture? Maybe you can't, but you can put in controls. For some kids that we recruit, this may be happening in their HS and they thing sex-exploitation is normal behavior.

No program is immune from the scandal we are witnessing. Somehow, some universities have a better handle and keep their athletes on the straight and narrow path.

The AD and the U have a big mess in their hands. This is their opportunity to institute the changes. Let's hope that they are not spineless.

The University Of San Francisco went to the very extreme and dropped big time college basketball all together.

San Francisco Drops Its Basketball ProgramGordon S. White Jr. - New York Times July 30 1982
http://www.nytimes.com/1982/07/30/sports/san-francisco-drops-its-basketball-program.html?pagewanted=all

Great leaders will turn it into a win all around. Team wins because they stuck together like family and made their point. U wins because they are upholding their standards. Women's rights wins because great publicity and public support for this issue. Fans win because they get to go to a game. News orgs win because it drives clicks and views.

The true test is to see if the great leaders at the U can use this to really raise the level of competition and womens rights awareness and do it on a way that has everyone smiling. Turn these negatives into positives and march forward!

 

[hungan1]

I think leadership among the players is vital to keeping to keeping the team members in check and to stay true to the core values of the U and of being a good citizen.

It has to start there. The university and the coaches cannot be everywhere to police and babysit kids.