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  • Something else for college athletes to whine about

    From The NOTBCS Guy@21:1/5 to All on Fri Mar 24 14:56:33 2023
    The NCAA recently released a clarification of its new conditions under which it will grant a transfer waiver (so it doesn't count as the athlete's one "free" one, or, if the athlete had already used it, doesn't force the athlete to sit out a year.) This
    goes a few steps further than the previously announced, "You're not getting enough playing time? Too bad - waiver denied" policy.

    The coach that recruited you left the school? Too bad - waiver denied.

    The new coach (or, for that matter, your current coach that didn't leave) cut your scholarship? Too bad - waiver denied.

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  • From michael anderson@21:1/5 to The NOTBCS Guy on Sun Mar 26 09:51:58 2023
    On Friday, March 24, 2023 at 4:56:35 PM UTC-5, The NOTBCS Guy wrote:
    The NCAA recently released a clarification of its new conditions under which it will grant a transfer waiver (so it doesn't count as the athlete's one "free" one, or, if the athlete had already used it, doesn't force the athlete to sit out a year.)
    This goes a few steps further than the previously announced, "You're not getting enough playing time? Too bad - waiver denied" policy.

    The coach that recruited you left the school? Too bad - waiver denied.

    The new coach (or, for that matter, your current coach that didn't leave) cut your scholarship? Too bad - waiver denied.

    Lol....a better thread title would be "something else for the ncaa to appear to be doing to make it seem like they
    have any relevance at all".....

    if the ncaa were smart they would completely cede football to the conferences and concentrate on managing
    lacrosse and tennis and such. Of course I don't think the conferences really want that.....an ncaa with no power or relevance wrt football can still have some use to them....

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  • From The NOTBCS Guy@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 26 11:04:18 2023
    Lol....a better thread title would be "something else for the ncaa to appear to be doing to make it seem like they
    have any relevance at all".....

    It does have relevance in men's basketball - tell Louisville with its "#1 in the Coaches Poll, 2013" banner otherwise.

    As for FBS football: the amount of relevance the NCAA has is displayed prominently in two places.
    1 - inside the Division I Bylaws, where a consider number of them are written by, and apply only to, Power 5 conferences.
    2 - inside UCF's stadium.

    if the ncaa were smart they would completely cede football to the conferences and concentrate on managing
    lacrosse and tennis and such. Of course I don't think the conferences really want that.....an ncaa with no power or relevance wrt football can still have some use to them....

    Not all football - it has a place in keeping an eye on Divisions II and III - but as I have said before, the top level schools should have their football programs break away entirely from the schools; the schools make their money from licensing their
    logos/mascots/colors and renting out their stadiums. Making college football players be bona fide students is one problem they have to solve.

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  • From michael anderson@21:1/5 to The NOTBCS Guy on Sun Mar 26 12:51:07 2023
    On Sunday, March 26, 2023 at 1:04:20 PM UTC-5, The NOTBCS Guy wrote:
    Lol....a better thread title would be "something else for the ncaa to appear to be doing to make it seem like they
    have any relevance at all".....
    It does have relevance in men's basketball - tell Louisville with its "#1 in the Coaches Poll, 2013" banner otherwise.

    ???? Everyone(but the irrelevant ncaa which nobody cares about) remembers Louisville as the 2013 national champion. I remember watching that game against michigan. They are as much the national champion as Duke was in 1992 or Kansas last year. So I'm
    not sure what your point is.....nobody cares what some banner says.

    When rick pitino got hired last week, for example, every article said some variation of "Pitino, who won national titles with both
    Kentucky and Louisville, takes over a St Johns Program......"

    I swear you are the only person I've ever heard of who is concerned with all this pedantic and irrelevant stuff.....

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  • From The NOTBCS Guy@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 26 15:31:20 2023
    Lol....a better thread title would be "something else for the ncaa to appear to be doing to make it seem like they
    have any relevance at all".....
    It does have relevance in men's basketball - tell Louisville with its "#1 in the Coaches Poll, 2013" banner otherwise.
    ???? Everyone(but the irrelevant ncaa which nobody cares about) remembers Louisville as the 2013 national champion. I remember watching that game against michigan. They are as much the national champion as Duke was in 1992 or Kansas last year. So I'm
    not sure what your point is.....nobody cares what some banner says.

    By that definition, "everyone saw" Reggie Bush win the 2005 Heisman Trophy and USC win the 2004 season BCS championship. (Okay, USC does still have the 2004 AP championship, since AP ignores NCAA sanctions.)

    When rick pitino got hired last week, for example, every article said some variation of "Pitino, who won national titles with both
    Kentucky and Louisville, takes over a St Johns Program......"

    Wouldn't be the first time - ESPN used to be (and probably still is) notorious for this. The Miami Herald once claimed that the NCAA "recognized" UCF's 2017 "national football championship;" it doesn't make it true. You're the guy who keeps boasting
    about Sabin's "clean program" at Alabama, but according to you, if you cheat to win a title, there shouldn't be a penalty for it, so why bother being clean?

    I swear you are the only person I've ever heard of who is concerned with all this pedantic and irrelevant stuff.....

    I probably am, and you know what? I'm absoultely going to keep doing it.

    Tell all of the Louisville fans on Facebook (and elsewhere) pretty much screaming for the NCAA to give back the trophy and let them hang an NCAA Champions banner back up in the arena.

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  • From Michael Falkner@21:1/5 to michael anderson on Sun Mar 26 17:40:08 2023
    On Sunday, March 26, 2023 at 12:51:09 PM UTC-7, michael anderson wrote:
    On Sunday, March 26, 2023 at 1:04:20 PM UTC-5, The NOTBCS Guy wrote:
    Lol....a better thread title would be "something else for the ncaa to appear to be doing to make it seem like they
    have any relevance at all".....
    It does have relevance in men's basketball - tell Louisville with its "#1 in the Coaches Poll, 2013" banner otherwise.
    ???? Everyone(but the irrelevant ncaa which nobody cares about) remembers Louisville as the 2013 national champion.

    Fuck that. There was no 2013 DI National Champion.

    Mike

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  • From The NOTBCS Guy@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 26 19:42:55 2023
    Fuck that. There was no 2013 DI National Champion.

    Well...
    https://imgur.com/gallery/5Ftbryi

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  • From Michael Falkner@21:1/5 to The NOTBCS Guy on Mon Mar 27 09:16:08 2023
    On Sunday, March 26, 2023 at 7:42:57 PM UTC-7, The NOTBCS Guy wrote:
    Fuck that. There was no 2013 DI National Champion.
    Well...
    https://imgur.com/gallery/5Ftbryi

    I know, semantics, but...

    That works. :)

    Mike

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