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Commission on College Basketball recommendations

Deacfreak07 said:
It’s already abused by the universities. The money is going to be made off of likenesses. It’s just a matter of who gets the checks.
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I don't care who gets paid if EA Sports can finally release a college basketball game again, in which I can simulate a return of Wake Forest basketball's return to greatness. Outside of that, I may never see Wake get a 1 seed.
 
Deacfreak07 said:
It’s already abused by the universities. The money is going to be made off of likenesses. It’s just a matter of who gets the checks.
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It's a double edged sword. If a KY or UCLA or Duke can entice players with royalty checks. It's all over for everyone else.

There should be a flat stipend and all scholarships should lifetime scholarships not one year contracts.
 
Jay Schilas please go away and start practicing law. If it is good for Duke, he's all in.
 
RJKarl said:
It's a double edged sword. If a KY or UCLA or Duke can entice players with royalty checks. It's all over for everyone else.

There should be a flat stipend and all scholarships should lifetime scholarships not one year contracts.
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Those programs already get all the top talent. Nothing will change with that.
 
The commission's findings are referenced in a piece in the Wall Street Journal (May 1); the article is written by UNC Professor Jay Smith, who argues that the proposed reforms are inadequate. I concur in that. The situation at UNC is the centerpiece of the article ("How Sports Ate Academic Freedom"). This should be of interest to most in this audience (although it is behind a paywall). This excerpt hints at the gist:

The experience of one basketball-crazed school, the University of North Carolina, shows how prioritizing sports can negatively affect athletes’ academic lives—along with the administrative culture that helps to shape those lives. Between 1993 and 2011, athletes made up about half the students enrolled in hundreds of nonexistent classes, earning high grades for minimal work submitted to a departmental secretary. A 2014 landmark report detailed the scheme. Yet the university has resisted owning up to its failure.
While under investigation by the NCAA in 2017, UNC leaders simply denied that the university had engaged in conduct that met the NCAA’s definition of fraud, twisting the organization’s bylaws. The chancellor had apologized in 2015 for the university’s fraudulent behavior while seeking to retain UNC’s academic accreditation, but she explained to the NCAA two years later that the written confession had been a “typo.” By denying reality and daring the NCAA to call its bluff, the university escaped punishment for offering sham classes.

Here's the link: https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-sports-ate-academic-freedom-1525125467

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Sgt Harp said:
The commission's findings are referenced in a piece in the Wall Street Journal (May 1); the article is written by UNC Professor Jay Smith, who argues that the proposed reforms are inadequate. I concur in that. The situation at UNC is the centerpiece of the article ("How Sports Ate Academic Freedom"). This should be of interest to most in this audience (although it is behind a paywall). This excerpt hints at the gist:

The experience of one basketball-crazed school, the University of North Carolina, shows how prioritizing sports can negatively affect athletes’ academic lives—along with the administrative culture that helps to shape those lives. Between 1993 and 2011, athletes made up about half the students enrolled in hundreds of nonexistent classes, earning high grades for minimal work submitted to a departmental secretary. A 2014 landmark report detailed the scheme. Yet the university has resisted owning up to its failure.
While under investigation by the NCAA in 2017, UNC leaders simply denied that the university had engaged in conduct that met the NCAA’s definition of fraud, twisting the organization’s bylaws. The chancellor had apologized in 2015 for the university’s fraudulent behavior while seeking to retain UNC’s academic accreditation, but she explained to the NCAA two years later that the written confession had been a “typo.” By denying reality and daring the NCAA to call its bluff, the university escaped punishment for offering sham classes.

Here's the link: https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-sports-ate-academic-freedom-1525125467

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UNCheat
 
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