Mark Emmert urges caution...
by Paragon SC on Sep 18, 2011 7:12 PM PDT
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PrintMark Emmert thinks that things are moving too fast when it comes to conference realignment.
Emmert is urging caution in these moves, noting that real institutions, students, coaches, etc are affected by these moves and should not be taken lightly.
He is kidding right?
Once again, though, Emmert's vision is short sighted.
"This is not about playing Monopoly and moving pieces around on the board," the NCAA president said of the latest round of conference-hopping. "These are real institutions with real students and real coaches and real programs, and it's much, much more complex than playing a simple game.
"There's a chance to do some things that would be helpful, and there's a chance to some things that would be very wrong."
I can see where he is going here, logistics could and probably will be a real nightmare with some of these programs.
But it is too little too late.
For all of Emmert's posturing about change, nothing really has. The wheels of change at the NCAA move at a very slow pace.
Instead of making sweeping changes as soon as he came in, Emmert instead simply continued the charade by propping up a corrupt organization and making stupid comments.
Because the NCAA is arbitrary in its rulings, corrupt in its enforcement processes and pretty much disingenuous when it comes to looking out for the "student-athlete" they are becoming irrelevant. Again, I have no doubt that real people will be affected by these moves, but real people are also affected by the NCAA's corrupt processes.
Punishing kids who have nothing to do with previous infractions cases affects real students too.
Emmert sees the writing on the wall, the NCAA is becoming more and more irrelevant with each passing day.
College sports is big business, the NCAA knows that but they are getting shut out with these new alignments and it wouldn't surprise me if they get shut out when it comes time to renegotiate the NCAA hoops tournament when that comes up in 6 or 7 years.
Emmert is not a visionary, Larry Scott is a visionary, Jim Delaney is a visionary.
Mark Emmert is simply a administrator who lacks the fortitude to exact change quickly.
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They are absolutely committed to the concept of "student-athlete"
read the Atlantic piece. The whole idea is just a conflation of their lawyers to avoid workman’s comp claims. It was first raised in a Texas lawsuit where the family of a player that died during a game was trying to claim disability death benefits. The NCAA is totally committed to not looking after the needs of its Athletes, Institutions, or fans, and the concept of student Athlete is central to that.
useless fifi bag
one would think a man in his position would be educated enough to understand his words have no foundation. His level of blind arrogance needs to be publicly addresses by way of handcuffs if it were up to me. But that might just be another turn on for the everlong relationship between the NCAA, SEC, ACC and of course ESPN. Until someone stops the lubing, corn holing, jello tossing, saliva swapping love affair between these cancer’s this wont stop. And it must stop.
by 714area on Sep 18, 2011 8:34 PM PDT reply actions 2 recs
Very, very nice!
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by Nestor on Sep 4, 2010 9:24 PM CDT
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by Nestor on Sep 4, 2010 9:24 PM CDT
Yes he is one of those asshat professors who think the sun rises and sets on there every thought.
You know the ones that can’t communicate or teach the subjects they represent, worthless pieces of crap the ruin the teaching profession. Look at his statement on this and you can see how out if touch the dude is , might as well be a bRuins nation man, hell he might be related to the head mod. People have to laughing all day and night at that statement, saying we will realign anyway we want, saying go take a hike dumbshit.
Who--What--Slim Shady---Thats the duckies and Kelly maybe they should put their plays up in brail..
by so.cal.native1952 on Sep 19, 2011 4:36 AM PDT reply actions
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