{"id":4242,"date":"2011-06-15T09:59:31","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T15:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/\/?p=4242"},"modified":"2011-06-15T09:59:31","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T15:59:31","slug":"ncaa-gets-bad-rap-for-doing-their-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/ncaa-gets-bad-rap-for-doing-their-job\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Gets a Bad Rap for Doing Its Job"},"content":{"rendered":"

Enforcement Organization Often Unfairly\u00a0the Target of Derision <\/strong><\/p>\n

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The NCAA enforces the rules voted into legislation by member schools.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s hard to understand why people rail on the NCAA as if it makes all the rules.\u00a0 Member schools make the rules.\u00a0 The NCAA’s job is to monitor and enforce those rules.\u00a0 Yet, when a school is hammered for wrongdoing, it’s usually the NCAA that gets much of the attention and blame.\u00a0 That’s just not right.<\/p>\n

The NCAA, originally known as the\u00a0\u00a0Intercollegiate Athletic Association, has been in existence since 1906.\u00a0 It’s purpose then, as now, was to level the playing field among participating institutions.\u00a0 Moreover, it was put in place to fairly govern the rules established by its members.\u00a0 And, that’s what they do.\u00a0 But, to listen to people such as former Indiana and Texas Tech men’s basketball coach, Bobby Knight, the NCAA is the Darth Vader of college athletics.\u00a0 Nothing could be farther from the truth.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If people, that is, college coaches, the talking heads and the casual sports fan, want to complain about how the NCAA goes about their job of policing and enforcing rules, they should instead turn their attention toward the members themselves.\u00a0 They are smack dab in the middle of the issues at hand, whatever they may be from day to day.\u00a0 It is the college presidents, athletic directors and student-athlete committees\u00a0which examine the individual sports, discuss rules options and set forth proposals to the larger membership body which then votes up or down on passing the organization’s legislation.\u00a0 The obligation of the NCAA is to work toward educating athletic departments, coaches and student-athletes on those rules and then hold them accountable when the rules are stretched or altogether broken.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And if that doesn’t work,\u00a0the schools should disband the NCAA, take on the job of enforcing the rules conference by conference and live with it.\u00a0 See how that works out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Enforcement Organization Often Unfairly\u00a0the Target of Derision It’s hard to understand why people rail on the NCAA as if it makes all the rules.\u00a0 Member schools make the rules.\u00a0 The NCAA’s job is to monitor and enforce those rules.\u00a0 Yet, when a school is hammered for wrongdoing, it’s usually the NCAA that gets much of … 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\/4242"}],"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=4242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}