Bylaw Change (True) NCAA to allow institutions to provide bagel spreads to college athletes

Submitted by orobs on

Wish this were a joke.    Just goes to show what a laughingstock the NCAA bylaws are.

 

"No. 2011-78 AWARDS, BENEFITS AND EXPENSES -- HOUSING AND MEALS -- FRUIT, NUTS AND BAGELS -- BAGEL SPREADS
 
Intent: To permit an institution to provide bagel spreads (e.g., butter, peanut butter, jelly, cream cheese) with bagels it may provide to a student-athlete at any time.
 
Bylaws: Amend 16.5.2, as follows:
16.5.2 Permissible. Identified housing and meal benefits incidental to a student's participation in  intercollegiate athletics that may be financed by the institution are:
[16.5.2-(a) through 16.5.2-(g) unchanged.] (h) Fruit, Nuts and Bagels. An institution may provide fruit, nuts and bagels  [including bagel spreads (e.g., butter, peanut butter, jelly, cream cheese)] to a student-athlete at any time.
 
Effective Date:  August 1, 2012
Category: Amendment
 
Topical Area: Awards, Benefits and Expenses
Rationale: Beginning with the 2009-10 academic year, institutions have been permitted to provide fruit, nuts and bagels to student-athletes at any time. This proposal seeks to make a reasonable accommodation in allowing an institution to provide traditional bagel spreads to student-athletes in conjunction with the bagels it is already permitted to provide.
 
Estimated Budget Impact: Will vary by amounts and types of spreads provided.
 
Impact on Student-Athlete's Time (Academic and/or Athletics): None."

Source:  https://web1.ncaa.org/LSDBi/pdf/propRpt?propRptSubmit=Generate%20POPL&d…

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Gobluegr

August 18th, 2011 at 2:01 PM ^

After seeing what the Miami players received, I think the NCAA might need to worry about other things that are being spread for the players.

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Hannibal.

August 18th, 2011 at 2:07 PM ^

Why the fuck did rules forbidding cream cheese exist in the first place?  Were they afraid that a booster was going to hide some jewelry in the cream cheese or something? 

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Laser Wolf

August 18th, 2011 at 2:08 PM ^

Next from Charles Robinson: boosters at Texas caught funneling HUNDREDS of dollars in lox to the football team, and Mack Brown knew about it all along.

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jmblue

August 18th, 2011 at 2:18 PM ^

So how do training table meals get past the rules?  Players are eating a lot more than bagels and cream cheese at training table.

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blacknblue

August 18th, 2011 at 2:23 PM ^

so if I'm reading this correctly, bagels and fruit was always fine. But for some reason jelly, butter and sour cream presented an issue? So players just had to eat their bagels dry? Isn't that some kind of torture.

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jshclhn

August 18th, 2011 at 2:32 PM ^

No wonder the "I didn't know" excuse works with the NCAA - apparently even they don't read the bylaws.  Then, you have a separate bylaw for every conceivable thing that could ever happen - whatever happened to principle based rules?  Something like "institutions are allowed to provide players with food"?

 

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RONick

August 18th, 2011 at 2:37 PM ^

I was 100% certain that I was about to read a good Onion article making this joke.  That makes this being real even more sad... what real credentials do the people running the NCAA actually have?!?!

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Number 7

August 18th, 2011 at 10:29 PM ^

Ther are some mighty fine bagels (and spreads) on the upper west side. Columbia is going to DOMINATE. (unless the football-hating doyens of the Ivy League, as usual, insist on more stringent, less spreadable standards of amateurism in collegiate athletics).

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MAgoBLUE

August 18th, 2011 at 2:46 PM ^

Serious question.  What about the Jewish student athletes who like to have lox with their bagels?  That's certainly more expensive than cream cheese or butter.  With their access to NYC delicatessens, doesn't St. John's have an unfair advantage?

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Hannibal.

August 18th, 2011 at 2:49 PM ^

Does this just allow for plain cream cheese, or are you allowed to use the flavored kind like garlic, strawberry, etc?  If you provide organic cream cheese, does that constitute an improper benefit since it costs more? 

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Saluki

August 18th, 2011 at 2:55 PM ^

Former 2012 Commit:  "Sorry Brady, but I've decided to switch my commitment to Rutgers.  They bring the best bagels in from some little joint in NYC every day during the season, and now they've added these new spreads that are off the charts."

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