Freep article on practice...PRACTICE?? (RE: investigation into M football)
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The National Collegiate Athletic Association — which touts its core mission as helping athletes to be students — doesn’t have a system to enforce its own rules that limit the time athletes spend on their sports.
Schools offered a range of enforcement strategies, from Oklahoma, which says it requires athletes to sign affidavits, to Mississippi, which says it conducts and documents exit interviews to gauge how players view their coaches once their football careers end, to Notre Dame, which says it assigns a deputy athletic director to monitor football.
At Michigan State, compliance director Jennifer Smith said all four football captains and one player representative from each class sign forms that coaches turn in monthly.
While NCAA rules governing time limits are clear, athletes say they’ve often had trouble determining what is truly voluntary. For example, they say they often get conflicting signals from coaches and other athletes who may interpret coaches’ wishes. Position coaches schedule film meetings every week. That is involuntary. Yet players often study film for hours beyond what is scheduled. A coach might argue that is voluntary. A player might see it differently. It can be a matter of perception, and real or imagined pressures.
Sorting it all out, said Walt Harrison, president at Hartford and former chair of the NCAA’s executive committee, “is a tough issue.” It is not unreasonable, he said, that players might want to practice more or that coaches might “want to practice more. I’m not so naïve to believe that these young men don’t want to be football players more than anything else.”They also talk to a former Iowa player who was convinced they worked too many hours and decided to make a diary of the workouts. Iowa never went over.
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