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NCAA Legislation Proposing New Recruiting Freedoms Will Create More Inequality

Chris Johnson — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 17:55:29 +0000

Chris Johnson is an RTC columnist. He can be reached @ChrisDJohnsonn.

Every year the NCAA spends copious amounts of time monitoring secondary recruiting violations and doling out corresponding punishments to guilty programs. There are so many menial rule specifications within the organization’s 400-page rulebook and so many different ways to violate those specifications that recruiting has become a walking-on-eggshells process for most programs, with the fear of breaching protocol clouding every conversation, letter and official visit. This is a huge burden for coaches who, more than anything else, are just trying to run their teams in the most successful way possible [...]

08.20.07 Fast Breaks

rtmsf — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:54:40 +0000

Some random morsels on Michael Vick Day in America:

And now on to the next great great political debate, Swift Boat style. Did Obama play ball at Occidental or not? There appears to be some dispute on this story, with a blogger at the Fanhouse refuting the original story we linked to from last week, while someone else dug up an old Washington Post quote from his coach talking about his game. This is so much more interesting than whether W showed up for air guard duty! Aggiesports.com reports with an in-depth article on Billy G‘s first 100 days in Lexington. Quick, what [...]

Does March Madness matter in May and June?

rtmsf — Thu, 31 May 2007 16:50:54 +0000

Wilbon, as usual, is up in arms.

Today we wanted to take a moment to examine an idea put forth by the inimitable Mike Wilbon in Monday’s Washington Post. Wilbon’s essential take (written after game 3 of the Detroit-Cleveland series) was that much of Lebron’s struggles in late-game situations of the NBA playoffs is directly attributable to his lack of “big game” experience, which his predecessors (Magic, MJ, Bird, etc.) honed and developed during the crucible of March Madness. He wrote:

LeBron’s bigger problem is never having learned how to play these kinds of high-stakes games in college — and now having [...]

05.30.07 Fast Breaks

rtmsf — Wed, 30 May 2007 18:35:12 +0000

A lot of piled-up news to get to today…

The biggest story: Brandon Rush tore his ACL, withdrew from the NBA Draft, will have surgery this week, and will likely be ready to play at KU next season. The 07–08 Jayhawks just got a lot better. Florida A&M’s coach Mike Gillespie was placed on paid leave after his recent arrest on misdemeanor stalking charges. Wait, the FAMU coach is white?? Apparently Glen “Big Baby” Davis has slimmed his way to 280 lbs for the NBA Draft workouts… begging the question, why wasn’t he using this regimen throughout his career at LSU? Greg Oden and [...]