Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Why The NCAA Needs To Be Overhauled

The NCAA needs to be overhauled in it's rules and regulations. From the BCS farce in college football and rule breaking coaches who mostly escape punishment as they make thousands if not millions off a university to athletes who go to school only to play sports with no concern for education.
Nw this story of a coach who makes $3,000,000 and wanted to share some of his money with his staff when the university wouldn't pay them.
From ESPN: Believing members of his football staff weren't being compensated satisfactorily, Georgia coach Mark Richt unknowingly violated NCAA rules by paying them out of his own pocket.
Richt's payments to several staffers were among a series of secondary NCAA violations uncovered by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in a standard open records report released Tuesday.

According to the AJC report, Richt's actions broke NCAA rules on supplemental pay. But discipline was limited to letters of admonishment from the school to Richt and those he made payments to, as well as additional rules education, the report said.
The NCAA considered the issue closed Nov. 30, according to the AJC.
"The report stands on its own," athletic director Greg McGarity said Monday, the newspaper reported. "There's nothing to add. We're moving forward."
Georgia's investigation into the matter determined that Richt made several impermissible payments:
• To former recruiting assistant Charlie Cantor, $10,842 over an 11-month period through March 2011.
• To former linebackers coach John Jancek, $10,000 in 2009 after the previous university administration declined to give Jancek a raise when he turned down a coaching opportunity elsewhere....

According to the AJC report, Georgia did not consider any of the payments to violate NCAA rules at the time because they were made with knowledge of the athletics administration.
http://espn.go.com/colleges/georgia/football/story/_/id/7372776/georgia-bulldogs-mark-richt-paid-staff-own-pocket-report-says
So, a coach wants to help his staff with their salary and the coach gets called on to the carpet. It's not like the coach paid his players, which of course would be a serious violation.
Here is a coach who stood up for his former assistants and he gets a letter of reprimand. What a farce and another reason why the NCAA needs to be overhauled.

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