Two New Articles

ok, ok...I tried and tried and I couldn't find the article by Ron Polk.

Can anyone "link" it?

Thanks.

BeenThere ... I am disappointed in your computer skills. On the main (front) page of the website there is a link that is: "Coach Ron Polk Declares". It takes you to the article. You might need to hit refresh to see the changed front page?

Anyway here's the link, just for you my friend:
http://www.hsbaseballweb.com/ncaa_enemy.htm

Bob,
"Doing nothing is still a course of action"

Bob, Had the same problem but your link did work. Thanks.

"Everybody kind of perceives me as being angry. It's not anger, it's motivation." Roger Clemens

Oh, boy, don't get me started.

Coach Polk is right, the NCAA is the Enemy. He has been saying that for a long time. He should continue to "Kick them hard and kick them often," as should we all.

Here are some of the "equality" issues that I have with them.
1a. Football-there is no equivalent in women's sport, so why does that count against other men's sports?
1b. Football-D1 gets 85 scholarships for 22 starting positions. You can, in effect, have almost 4 complete rosters on scholarship for a sport that only plays 1 game per week.
2. Men's tennis gets 4.5 scholarships for 6 positions (if they all play doubles) while women get 8 scholarships for those same 6 positions.
3. Golf-Men get 4.5 while women get 6 for the same size team.
4. Volleyball-(like I care about volleyball, but it's the point of the matter)Men get 4.5 while women get 12. As a result, there are 23 men's D1 volleyball teams...311 D1 women's teams. Gee, I wonder why.
5. And finally BASEBALL, America's Sport-Men get 11.7 while women get 12 in softball. In softball, one pitcher can pitch every single game because the motion does not damage the arm like a baseball pitcher's motion can with that kind of abuse. As opposed to football, baseball can be played every day and yet you are allowed only enough scholarships for 1 starting line up and 2.7 more bodies. Talk about getting the short end of the stick. No sport takes as much of a beating as baseball in the eyes of the NCAA.

And 2 Final Points:
1. If the NCAA is all about academics in athletics, they should reduce football scholarships where the most abuse is, and reward the baseball players who are carrying the load. My proposal (to begin with) is to exempt football in Title IX requirements. In the mean time, while everybody fights about that, take 5 scholarships from football and give them to baseball. Hey, it's a start.

2. The NCAA professes to be concerned about athletes leaving school and trying to turn pro early. Yeah, right. The NBA has only 2 rounds, a small risk for losing underclassmen, especially when you take foreign players into account. Yet it is in all the headlines when kids leave college early or skip college all together for the NBA. MLB, on the other hand, has 50 rounds and drafts over 1,500 players every year. If the NCAA really wanted kids to get an education first as they claim, they would address baseball scholarships immediately.


See what happens when you get me started.

I just read it and got really lit up.
How many women does it take to row a boat?
Maybe instead of exempting football from Title IX, I think that NCAA should require fielding a women's football team and because there is not any acknowledged difference between men or women, they should make the women's team play intersquad with the first string men's team. I think that the women's football team should be drafted full of all the women that sued for Title IX in the first place.
I wonder if any of the monetary rewards that they gained from their lawsuits were returned to their alma maters to help buy oars for the women's crew team?
Oh, no!!! now you got me started!

Be careful, lhpmom...

You are likely to get hit by a woman with an oar.

They should consider including the Cheerleading and Pom squads to count as female participation.Some pom squads are fifty plus in numbers. When it gets to the college level, some women athletes choose to go that route, which take the same training and dedication as classified sports.And yes, there are a few male cheerleaders...

Cheerleading is NOT A SPORT. I don't care how athletic you are. Scoring is subjective, and it should never be mistaken as a sport. It's like judging ART, whoever wins is just somebody's opinion. Sorry ladies, don't hate.

With the seriousness and reality of the baseball scholarship inequity, how can we as parents "team up" and lobby for a change? Certainly there are enough of us to make an impact on the NCAA, but what strategy can we use to really get anywhere? Does anyone-- coaches or parents-- have any ideas? Let's do something!!!

jaxnbulldog,
I think the point was that the money for cheerleading squads is coming from somewhere. If that money could be applied to Title IX requirements perhaps a scholarship could be freed up here or there for real sports.

jaxnbulldog,

I agree that baseball gets the short end of the stick compared to other sports, but not to women's softball. My daughter plays softball and your number is incorrect, D1 softball gets the same 11.7 that baseball gets. It is true that the same pitcher can pitch every game, but that rarely happens beyond HS. College softball has a rotation of pitchers, albeit the rotation is generally smaller (mostly due to not enough qualified pitchers available). The difference you state for football is staggering though!

http://www.highviewheat.com/index.asp

http://www.kristensfastpitchworld.com/index.asp

well if college coaches don't over recrutit and have 45 players on their roster the 11.7 scholarships does
not work too well


11.7 scholarships on 25 players makes alot more sense