Thursday, May 28, 2009

Corrupt NCAA Coaches

I am tired of college coaches being allowed to skirt the rules and nothing happens to them. Why should the institution, new coaches, and players suffer when the rules were broken by coaches who are no longer associated with the universities? These coaches break the rules and then leave for greener pastures with no consequences.

In the most recent case of corrupt coaches, John Calipari and Memphis have been accused of knowing that Derrick Rose's SAT score that allowed him to be eligible for college was fishy. Rose didn't become eligible until he (or someone else) took the test for the 3rd time. The NCAA is looking into the score to determine who took the test that made Rose eligible. Also, Memphis is being accused of allowing Rose's brother to ride on the team's charter flights to road games without paying for the value of the seat.

In the end, Calipari and Rose win. Calipari moves on to get an unprecedented contract with Kentucky and Rose gets selected #1 in the NBA Draft and goes on to win the Rookie of the Year. The NCAA can't do anything to them because they are no longer at Memphis. I understand not being able to punish Rose as he is already in the NBA, but Calipari should be punished as much or more than Memphis since he is the one that broke the rules. I would love to see the NCAA decide to stop this crap once and for all by suspending any coach that violates the NCAA rules for a year without pay (yes, this is coming from a USC fan whose coaches have been accused of not exactly playing by the rules either). Let's watch these coaches try and get away with things if they know that they could potentially lose millions of dollars in suspensions. It won't happen and it is about the only thing the NCAA can do to clean up the sport.

1 comment:

Ryan said...

As a NCAA coach, bring it on. You cheat, you lose. I agree everyone knows the rules as every NCAA coach is required to pass an annual rules examination. That's right, every coach every year has to pass a recruiting test to know the rules.