Comments on: The SEC Just Opened A Door, And ND Should Walk Right Through

By: BurbankSteve

BurbankSteve — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 00:56:51 +0000

In reply to terry.

Ture story – the kid’s name was Scott Bentley, son of Bob Bentley ’67

By: Craig

Craig — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:56:32 +0000

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By: tricerapops

tricerapops — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 21:04:09 +0000

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By: trey

trey — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 13:34:32 +0000

I had no idea this was going on…pretty crappy practice IMO

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By: Ed Smithe

Ed Smithe — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 01:31:40 +0000

You have to love Steve Spurrier’s logic on the proposal. On the one hand he doesn’t want to “make it more difficult,” for his recruits from “difficult backgrounds” to play ball by raising their cumulative GPA from a 2.0 to a 2.5. On the other, it’s a “terrible idea” to not have the ability to take away the scholarship that allows them the ability to attend the University if they don’t perform on the football field.

I think Spurrier, on his own, has demonstrated just how bankrupt many of these programs are, using these kids for their own selfish purposes.

The Commissioner of the SEC was right to suggest this change, and this article is absolutely right to call on ND to support it. It’s time we stopped coaches like Steve Spurrier from ruining these kids lives for his own aggrandizement.

By: terry

terry — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 23:26:45 +0000

I am reminded of a time when Lou Holtz was coach @ ND. A young man (from Colorado?) who was the son of a former ND football player and who was assumed to be on the verge of accepting an offer from ND instead took an offer from FSU. Coach Holtz is reputed to have said “he didn’t make a 4 year mistake, he made a 40 year mistake.”

Anyone remember that? I think the young man was a kicker.

By: tricerapops

tricerapops — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 18:10:16 +0000

good angle on the whole “punt to the NCAA” approach. i think the NCAA, with the COI and it’s perceived inconsistency, inefficiency and ineffectiveness is casting a long shadow on what is already a heavily-criticized NCAA. this is akin to state govts picking and choosing when to punt issues to the federal level, where they can die.

By: Erik '04

Erik '04 — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:15:27 +0000

In reply to Brad.

Grades would actually be pretty easy to use as a method of “cutting” underperforming players from the team. They’d just start actually enforcing any sort of academic progress measure for the players they want to get rid of, and it’ll happen automatically. No fancy tutor switching required. Goodness knows none of their players are graduating, so they’ll just be “not graduating” a few years earlier if they don’t play well on the field.

By: Brad

Brad — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 11:20:56 +0000

I am completely in favor of such a move. If the SEC had to actually keep their kids around and didn’t just cut players who don’t pan out after a year (call it what you want, it is cutting), I think they would face a much more level playing field with the rest of the country.

However, it won’t matter. The SEC will find a way around it. In all honesty, I would expect that if they do this, suddenly you’ll see a lot more kids getting booted from SEC schools due to A) grades (which is hard to do, when they regularly have kids around for 4 years who go pro and then can barely form a frickin’ sentence on Draft Day), or B) undisclosed violations of team rules.

The grades thing wouldn’t be hard for them to do. They’d just put the worst tutors with kids who aren’t panning out athletically. And undisclosed violations? Could be anything. They’d just need to enact some kind of honor code thing, and then anytime a 20 year old who hasn’t panned out athletically gets caught drinking a single beer, kick him out.

Sadly, it probably would work that way.