Proposed NCAA Changes

I agree, these are not rule changes that benefit the kids.

If a coach can cut your scholarship, you should be able to transfer without losing a year or having to sit.

The transfer rule is under fire because of the new "progress" towards graduation rule. Simply put when kids leave your program they don't graduate and it hurts the program they leave under this new rule.

The SSchedule change is an attempt to even the playing field for teams from colder climates who can't get out and practice as much and always get late season starts relative to warm climate teams. If you look warm climate teams spread their schedule over longer periods. This protects pitching arms and classroom lost time (fewer games during week).

These are the reasons I've read.

But as for the NCAA - NEVER EVER think it is in existence for Student Athletes or cares one bit about them. They are not even allowed to represent themselves or file complaints to the NCAA.

The NCAA belongs to the universities, is run by them, and is beholding to them.

Think of a corrupt movie where the local "big business" owns the town, the sheriff, the judge and makes all the rules to suit itself. The individual doesn't have a chance.

I'm still waiting for "Walking Tall" to come and bring them down.

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by mrmom: The transfer rule is under fire because of the new "progress" towards graduation rule. Simply put when kids leave your program they don't graduate and it hurts the program they leave under this new rule.

with the student athlete in mind, it would seem resonable to simply change or get rid of the
grad-progress rule


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Think of a corrupt movie where the local "big business" owns the town, the sheriff, the judge and makes all the rules to suit itself. The individual doesn't have a chance

Down here in Texas, we call it a "Kangaroo Court"

In today's DMN, college baseball season will start later in 2007. Practice can't begin until Feb.1 w/ season getting started in late Feb.

This is too long. Sorry for the rambling.

I will get beat up on pretty heavy for this, but I agree with the proposal to have later start times & shorter seasons for college baseball. When you take into account the small percentage of college players that get any chance at a professional baseball career, then it make sense to emphasize an improved educational experience. Extend summer seasons if you need to get more games. No class conflict either.

As a college baseball parent & fan I am sometimes envious of others when I read about the 56 game schedules, 20 days of fall practice & intrasquad World Series, and early spring practices. The Ivy League restricts all of these activities. 12 days fall practice, 40 game schedule, no practice before 2/1 (many TX D1s are already playing their season games before 2/1). Ivy even limits the off-season 1-on-1's and schedules blackout periods for no practicing.

Watching bigtime D1 football & basketabll, and watching the growth of D1 baseball into a bigtime campus & alumni sport, I have altered my opinion about college sports. Too much student transferring, jumping from D1 to Juco & then D1 again. The students as athletes are too often throwaways by coaches (all sports) when expectations don't match production.

I think the Ivy & Patriot leagues have a healthier philosophy about the priority athletics have in the student experience. Make no mistake - winning is important to Ivy athletes & coaches. (The Dartmouth president attends many home baseball games). But the institution's top priority is graduating well educated students while rounding out the student experience with D1 athletics programs. (For example - Did you know that Dartmouth sponsors 32 varsity athletic teams, 31 of those are NCAA D1 programs? Univ Texas sponsors 16 NCAA D1 varsity sports. Source - school websites.) Again, as a parent of the student, I appreciate the emphasis on academics.

Baseball got my son into his school. Grades & academic achievement made him eligible for admission to almost any school. The good news for me is that baseball will not drag his grades down (not too far ) during his years in college.

dbg_fan,

You probably will get beat up for that post and I do agree with you in some principle, but the reality is when you start comparing Ivy / Patriot League schools with MAJOR D-1's that just isn't realistic. All schools have a philosophy of athletics and academics and their priorities. While it certainly can and will get skewed at times, I don't see the need for THESE types of changes. I am SICK of hearing about the Northern schools getting a "more level playing field"!! REAL WORLD HERE PEOPLE!! That is like penalizing the big guys in basketball BECAUSE they are big!! Just don't work. If anything, the NCAA needs to be looking at the LACK of scholarships for the programs and helping out ( equality ) there instead of this type of ****!!

Personally I would prefer that all colleges do away with Athletic scholarships.
The only scholarships should be Academic. Sports should be an additional benefit of college
not the focus.

The purpose of college is not to be a sports Farm Team.
If you want colleges to fill that role, then have technical colleges for sports.

IMO by moving the start date back you have created MORE missed class not less even if they cut out a few games.

You will now cram more games in less time and miss alot of class or you will have to complete 2 or three conference series and the the conference tournamnet after school is out. That is a lot of extra expense to house and feed 35 players just to finish the regular season.

I would hope that expense would not be on my dime!! You could probably fund more scholarships with what it wil cost the schools to house and feed the team for two to three weeks just to finsih the regular season.