Everyone already knows this, but I wanted to post it for posterity. The NCAA has officially nixed the idea of Notre Dame handing out 8,000 leis to Notre Dame in honor of Hawaiian linebacker prospect Mant’i Teo’s visit to ND this weekend. Reason? It might be construed as Notre Dame the institution publicizing Teo’s visit.
Ah, the NCAA: Powerless when players are being paid by agents during their years of eligibility, but they sure know how to stand up with an iron-clad spine when it comes to students having a little fun.
My wife occasionally gets upset that, in times like these, pro athletes get paid millions to play a game, but at least those people, you know, actually do something. What’s Myles Brand ever done in his entire pathetic stint at the NCAA?
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domer, ND has it all wrong here. Usually it is the recruits who get lei’d on visits, not the students.
DTK, I’m sure the students are more than willing to let the recruits join in the fun.
Love the ncaa. So quick and efficiently destroying this clear and present danger to the holy state of college football. Meanwhile NOTHING on the fact that the illegal Bush Push was executed by an ineligible player taking hundreds of thousands of dollars from ‘marketing firms’. Way to go ncaa!
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I was so looking forward to getting lei’d …