{"id":2493,"date":"2010-12-29T15:27:26","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T21:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/\/?p=2493"},"modified":"2010-12-29T15:27:26","modified_gmt":"2010-12-29T21:27:26","slug":"ncaas-response-to-criticism-clears-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/ncaas-response-to-criticism-clears-the-air\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA&#8217;s Response to Criticism Clears the Air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/NCAA-logo5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2495\" title=\"NCAA logo\" src=\"\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/NCAA-logo5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"110\" height=\"110\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While the timing may indeed be coincidental, the NCAA has nevertheless \u00a0just released a statement on their Web site (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncaa.org\/\">www.ncaa.org<\/a>) seemingly in response to NSR&#8217;s blog published yesterday afternoon which called into question the consistency of the organization&#8217;s recent eligibility rulings.\u00a0 The 489-word statement addressed each of the areas\u00a0of contention which we pointed out in our blog.\u00a0 And, we appreciate the response.<\/p>\n<p>The NCAA&#8217;s current statement does something, this writer believes, was missing from\u00a0the\u00a0previous explanations.\u00a0 In short,\u00a0it cuts to the chase and\u00a0gives very\u00a0clear details regarding why the rulings were made in each case.\u00a0 While it is apparent that the tone is somewhat defensive in nature, i.e. &#8220;Nothing could be farther from the truth,&#8221; the resulting language does offer better insights into the decision making process than in any previous attempts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While we do not apologize for our pointed evaluation of the rulings, we are grateful to the NCAA for having taken the time to tie their decisions to specific rules and positions.\u00a0 It\u2019s something we all needed to see and understand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the timing may indeed be coincidental, the NCAA has nevertheless \u00a0just released a statement on their Web site (www.ncaa.org) seemingly in response to NSR&#8217;s blog published yesterday afternoon which called into question the consistency of the organization&#8217;s recent eligibility rulings.\u00a0 The 489-word statement addressed each of the areas\u00a0of contention which we pointed out in &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/ncaas-response-to-criticism-clears-the-air\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}