How the Boss fixed college sports

[BSpringsteen]

Between the front line and real sports programs airing, I think the innocence of amateur athletics has officially been shattered.

What goes on in college athletics is nothing short of disgusting, and what is outlined here fixes it.

All football and men's basketball players would receive a stipend of $50,000 a year to cover all costs associated with being a STUDENT athlete. Books, tuition, room and board etc...

This encourages students to stay in state, (lower tuition) as they have more money left over and keeps programs emotionally invested in their state and helping develop high school sports in their states.

Private schools would allow an increase to the most expensive public school tuition in the state. So for instance, if someone from Illinois wanted to go to N'Western, they would get an increase above what the in state tuition was at U of I. If they were out of state, it would be an increase above the out of state tuition.

Schools and players can negotiate for the number of years on their scholarship. A school can offer a 1,2,3 4 or 5 year scholarship. If a school offers less than a 5 year scholarship, the athlete can transfer without penalty when their scholarship commitment is up.

The school can not break it's commitment of the scholarship. If they do, they lose the scholarship for the remaining numbers of years.

Conversely, if an athlete leaves their scholarship early, they are liable for the financial value of their scholarship up to that point.

No more "personalized" jersey sales. The jersey's will simply always have the number of the year on it. So this year would be 10 in football and 11 in basketball.

Any impropriety on the part of the student athlete will constitute a breach of contract and immediately result in the student leaving early and thus being financially liable for the number of years on scholarship.

Any institutional transgressions will result in loss of scholarship years. There will be level 1, level 2 and level 3 transgressions with each type of violation specified as to it's level.

Level 1 will reduce 15 scholarship years
Level 2 will reduce 30 scholarship years
Level 3 will reduce 60 scholarship years

It is not a future reduction, it is an immediate reduction which causes a school to have to release the number of players with the number of years left to equal the violation.

In these cases, the athletes who are released will receive the remaining financial obligation from the institution and be allowed to transfer. UNLESS the player was directly involved in the transgression in which case he loses all eligibility.

All assistant coach hires must be vetted and if any quid pro quo is discovered, it constitutes a level 2 violation.

A student must remain academically eligible or else it constitutes them leaving early.

Once a student has exhausted their scholarship, they can then negotiate with the U and the NCAA for the use of their likeness.

Agents can speak with an athletes family and support them financially. But in order to do so, the agent has to register with the NCAA which would track it. But any evidence whatsoever of an agent speaking with the athlete or having any access to the program would constitute a Level 3 violation and each athlete that the agent was involved with would immediately lose their scholarship years and be financially liable for the remaining years.

 

[BSpringsteen]

BUMP - I think this is pretty apropos today.

 

[NewMexHawk]

Wouldn't this hurt small population states like Iowa? With kids staying instate, how would Iowa get kids to come to the U of I to play football? Wouldn't the larger populated states have a tremendous advantage over states like Iowa? If you think schools like USC, Texas, osu, and some others have an advantage just think about what this idea would do to college fb. Iowa and the clowns might as well close up shop as far as fb goes because the teams would be almost completely composed of Iowans.

Iowa just does not put out the talent that many states do...teams like Iowa HAVE to recruit all over the country to get the quality of players that the osu's, Michigans, and others have.

To say college fb should be disbanded in favor of basically paid intramural sports would not be a good thing IMO and even worse for schools like Iowa. A team like the clowns...it wouldn't really matter because they are so shi*** anyway. They would still be one of the five all time worse programs in college sports regardless.

 

[NewMexHawk]

If the NCAA and Americans REALLY want to clean up college fb, the best way is really hammer that school when they get caught...and I mean hammer them.

Take a substantial number of scholarships away for 3 to 5 years. Schools that get caught cheating will have their scholarships reduce to 65 for 3 to 5 years. They can have a limited number of walk-ons from their home state, but they cannot receive scholarships from that school until the school is off probation.

Do not allow any TV out of their state or area...by that I mean do not allow any national audience to watch that team.

The coach is automatically fired and all athletes participating in the cheating are banned from college sports...period. They are no longer allowed to play at the BCS level...they can go to Division II schools or smaller schools but their days at a BCS school are over.

The coach(es) are barred from coaching at any other BCS schools. That way if the coach is truly involved, he suffers and cannot just go to another BCS school and set up shop. Also, professional fb gets on board and makes an agreement not to hire an offending coach.

The conference cuts them out of all TV money for 3 to 5 years.

Recruiting visits are limited.

No bowls period or any share of bowl money from the conference.

The national media cannot include sanctioned schools in the polls.

By doing this, the American public (outside of the school's state) will NOT even see that program or program's name anywhere during fb season for 3 to 5 years.

That school basically becomes a nonentity for 3 to 5 years.

Is this the death penalty...perhaps. Would these kind of penalties cripple a program...you bet. But that is what they get for cheating. Just think of osu was faced with this kind of probation! osu would get hurt badly and wouldn't just be able to walk away laughing knowing that the flimsy probation handed down by the NCAA will do nothing to harm its fb program. These kind of sanctions would cripple osu and would have crippled USC. It would be a long time before they would recover. Some schools might NOT recover for a long, long time.

All it would take is for a few schools to get these kind of sanctions and the rest of the schools would watch their p's and q's. Basketball should set up a similar program. A cheating school like UConn would be crippled for a number of years...Kentucky would be crippled.

Some will say this would not be good for college sports and I say, Why? If people saw that schools like UConn and Kentucky cheated and were heavily penalized, people would enjoy college sports more IMO. The cheaters could not cheat and end up national champs. Their program would be crippled for years for the cheating. Perhaps, schools would be playing on a more level playing field if the cheaters were REALLY penalized and could not benefit from the cheating like UConn and osu did.