Is anyone else getting nauseated seeing this ad repeatedly during the bowl season?
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Someone should sue for false advertising.
I had to laugh.. just made a similar comment on Twitter...
The Michigan State ad where the field hockey player is juggling three balls talking about juggling academics, athletics and community is good.
Haven't seen the ads but I don't think I need to. The NCAA makes this process so much harder than it needs to be. The rules are non-sensical in most cases and only serve to make it harder on the athlete, not easier. I saw a poll question several months ago on one of the major sports sites, I want to say it was foxsports but I could be wrong. The poll was "what is the greatest rivalry in sports?" The usual choices were there like Red Sox-Yankees, etc. Answer D was "the NCAA vs common sense". Guess which one I voted for.....too funny.
Originally Posted by RJM:
Is anyone else getting nauseated seeing this ad repeatedly during the bowl season?
No, but the NCAA forcing my eyes open to see all the good they are doing is beginning to hurt.
We're there for student athletes . . . the same way the fox is there for the chickens.
Originally Posted by 9and7dad:
Haven't seen the ads but I don't think I need to. The NCAA makes this process so much harder than it needs to be. The rules are non-sensical in most cases and only serve to make it harder on the athlete, not easier. I saw a poll question several months ago on one of the major sports sites, I want to say it was foxsports but I could be wrong. The poll was "what is the greatest rivalry in sports?" The usual choices were there like Red Sox-Yankees, etc. Answer D was "the NCAA vs common sense". Guess which one I voted for.....too funny.
Until common sense gets a few wins, its competitions vs. the NCAA can't be considered a rivalry.
The NCAA vs common sense rivalry would be much like the globetrotters vs the generals rivalry.
Papi ... Back in Florida's heydey (Tebow's class) when they won a couple of BCS titles 41 of 85 players were arrested during their Florida tenure. Turns out one who wqs arrested twice may be a murderer (Hernandez). Even last year, 2012 Florida still led the SEC in arrests with 24. The SEC total for the 2012 football class was 124 arrests.
In Meyer's (former Florida coach) first year at Ohio State eight of his players were arrested.
Gainesville is a big place to get in trouble, one of the reasons UF was not high on our list of places we wanted son to play.
Few years ago a baseball player got arrested for DUI and the next day his locker was cleared out by the AD. After reconsideration he was reinstated.
I mean how can you look the other way for one group of guys and not another? If you have rules, you stick by them for everyone.