NCAA Denies Iowa's Request to Honor Chris Street

I don't think any of us are saying lets all protest the NCAA, get pitchforks and demand an hour long special with Oprah to talk about this travesty, we are just pointing out the frustration at the stupid things the NCAA worries about when there are a lot bigger fish to fry out there.
 
DwayneTwill said:
I think some people here are actually Iowa State fans pretending to be Iowa fans, what with all the butthurt. Maybe taverhoks.
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Probably. Also, a lot of people in 'merrka these days suffer from severe NPD, wherein they give constant voice to their selfish feelings.
Such is life on teh message boardz, I guess.
 
Scorpio79 said:
Is the Street family upset? Is Chris's spirit upset? No? They why are some of you upset?
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The only reason this is an issue is the hypocrisy of the NCAA and how they make decisions into these sort of deals. There were several gestures made during the week and game itself and I'm sure even if the family was upset alittle with it they wouldn't have been enough to have admitted as such. (I don't think they were upset at all either) I think that the school and fans did alot to remember Chris this week and that's the main thing the family was concerned with.
 
bighawkeyedaddy said:
Unless you consider 2 of his schools being put on probation and having 2 Final Four appearances stripped away being in trouble. Another example of stupidity by the NCAA where they only punish the school the coach left from and don't hand down any discipline to the coach doing the cheating.
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I don't find Marcus Camby taking money from an agent of the NCAA Clearinghouse ******* up to be examples of John Calipari as getting into trouble.
 
Hawkfnntn said:
The only reason this is an issue is the hypocrisy of the NCAA and how they make decisions into these sort of deals. There were several gestures made during the week and game itself and I'm sure even if the family was upset alittle with it they wouldn't have been enough to have admitted as such. (I don't think they were upset at all either) I think that the school and fans did alot to remember Chris this week and that's the main thing the family was concerned with.
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Exactly. So why the need to put his name on the back of the uniforms?
 
Home game on the 20th anniversary of Street's death.
Best atmosphere in Carver in a few years, at least.
Victory on 20th anniversary of Street's death against a rival.
Great halftime tribute with past winners of award named after Street in attendance.
Street's jersey on the freakin bench for the game.
Family gets game ball.

We get all these things, amongst countless others, and people still find something to complain about. Not surprised.
 
I'm still waiting for someone to elucidate "the hypocrisy of teh NCAA!". Did that body once allow a request similar to Iowa's, at a different school? Pls give deets.
 
I’m not surprised.
#1. It doesn’t make the NCAA money.
#2. If they approved this request, they would have to approve other requests.
It simply opens up a “can of worms.”
I don’t agree with it either, but that’s the way it is with the NCAA. $$$$$
 
HawkeyeNTexas said:
I’m not surprised.
#1. It doesn’t make the NCAA money.
#2. If they approved this request, they would have to approve other requests.
It simply opens up a “can of worms.”
I don’t agree with it either, but that’s the way it is with the NCAA. $$$$$
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Look, the NCAA at its core is a bunch of guys and gals who would, but for finding their way onto that "non-profit" gravy train, otherwise be government workers or otherwise bilking the government by working in higher education where their salaries would be paid for by Pell Grants and Stafford Loans. You see, if I were running a multi-billion dollar business that basically does nothing except license its trademark and sell content produced by others for exhorbitant fees (and whose very existence may be threatened by moves that the Big Ten and SEC are making) I'd bend over backwards to keep my constituents happy and try to make some money off of it. So in this case, if you have so many requests for uniform deviations that you just decide to do nothing about them, what you do is hire someone with 3/8ths of a brain (which might be an eighth of a brain more than most folks at the NCAA) to review and rubber stamp these requests, and then you, get this, charge the schools like $500 or a grand a pop to review the requests and then you pay for the reviewer's salary AND you might make some coin off of it. It ain't rocket surgery.
 
BSpringsteen said:
If you are a Division 1 Athletic Director, you know what the NCAA is, and you know what matters and what doesn't. I blame the Iowa AD, not the NCAA.

I seriously doubt this went up to Mark Emmert, someone at Iowa just said, uh oh, we better see if this is allowed and an intern probably said no and they just nodded their head and said ok.
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OMG Springsteen: Are you sure it wasn't Kirk Ferentz's fault?
 
Dutch said:
Yep. This is where Iowa should have either: (A) Not asked for permission in the first place, done it, and faced whatever consequences the NCAA would have dealt out; or (B) Done it regardless of the NCAA not granting permission - although option (A) would have been ideal.

It would have been a potential PR problem (dare I say a nightmare) for the NCAA, and one the University should have taken head on. Especially in light of all the silly things going with uniforms in this day and age - as JDM pointed out.

UofI should have given the double finger to the NCAA on this one.
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hawkfan33 said:
LOLerz, no it wouldn't have been.
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Have you see some of the stories that make the national news these days???

Would it have grown to that level? Probably not but if it did the public would have been all over the NCAA.
 
If teams aren't required to have names on the backs of their jerseys at all, I don't see the problem with allowing them all to have the same name.
 
hawkfan33 said:
I don't find Marcus Camby taking money from an agent of the NCAA Clearinghouse ******* up to be examples of John Calipari as getting into trouble.
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I guess I don't understand why the NCAA concerns itself with uniforms so much. Slap an NCAA patch on it, and then let schools do whatever the hell they want as far as design goes.
 
tm3308 said:
I guess I don't understand why the NCAA concerns itself with uniforms so much. Slap an NCAA patch on it, and then let schools do whatever the hell they want as far as design goes.
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Couldn't there be a little unfair advantage to this, though? Didn't ISU try to sew footballs on their jerseys once to make it appear they were all carrying it? Maybe that was just some sort of strange dream of mine... But there are some truly "distracting" designs out there that would make one wonder if that is the purpose of the design. Then again, wouldn't it be distracting to their own teammates as well? Am I debating myself?

I honestly don't see the harm in the Street on every jersey, especially when names aren't even required on jerseys as it was pointed out earlier.
 
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