MGlobules

February 25th, 2016 at 2:50 PM ^

the wisdom of just letting his enemies hang themselves with their own stupid. No need--in strictly Buddhist/mindful terms--to be so reactive or justify everything you do, even if it often is like shooting fish in a barrel.

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Truthbtold

February 26th, 2016 at 1:23 AM ^

Will have to find another vehicle to channel is inner twelve year old responses. We all know what Crazy Jim said about Smart, well here is what Smart actually said. Apparently, Smart said the following: “they’re obviously trying to gain a competitive advantage and that’s their right. But I think the NCAA in due time will have to step in,” Smart said, adding later: “I don’t know how it’s going to go down. It’s going to be interesting to see, though. There’s a lot of factors that people don’t think about in that deal,” Smart said. “You’ve gotta think about recruiting rules, how are they going to handle those, is it an advantage, disadvantage? Are they gonna let other coaches come to it, are they gonna hold open practices? Do we all come in there and watch them and scout them? If they’re all open practices why don’t we go and watch them. It’s a Pandora’s Box of what it’s going to get into, obviously.” Hardly something a mature grown up would respond to the way Crazy Jim responded. Then again, he is like a child.just like his players. Little boys.

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trueblueintexas

February 25th, 2016 at 2:57 PM ^

This is all so dumb. This is the crap the NCAA is really focused on? Yes it is. Why? Because adults can't control themselves when it comes to competition.

Make it simple.

Rule 1) Adults don't be stupid when recruiting

Rule 2) Recruits don't be stupid when being recruited

Rule 3) ???

Rule 4) Profit

 

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trueblueintexas

February 25th, 2016 at 5:32 PM ^

I agree, it is also the byproduct of large instituions primarily utilizing itierative process to improve vs. addressing the core root of the problem when circumstances have shifted so dramatically from the inital inception of the rules.

I'm not quite in the "blow up the NCAA" boat yet, if they can show they are willing and able to blow up the processes and arraingment which they operate in. 

Overly simplified, but this is the current structure. Schools agree to follow NCAA guidelines. Representatives from said schools break those guidelines. Schools are supposed to report said violations to NCAA. NCAA can only investigate if violations are brought to their attention with circumstantial proof. NCAA can not acutally enforce investigation. The best they can do is show up, poke around, and ask questions. Whatever the school wants to say it does, what ever it doesn't, it doesn't. NCAA takes available info and makes a ruling. School appeals ruling. School sometimes wins, sometimes loses. 

If they really wanted to fix this, they would take the funding the NCAA receives and set up on campus monitoring by the NCAA and give the NCAA full investigative power to force the hand over of all documents and to hold hearings. When a ruling is rendered, it is done so according to a graduated scale so there is no reason for appeal of the punishment, only the level of infraction. Then it would be on the onnus of the scool to prove back to the NCAA what they did was a different level of infraction, thus desrving a different level of punishment.

Until then, this is dumb.

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Michigan Eaglet

February 25th, 2016 at 3:00 PM ^

This was the real travesty in college athletics. No longer should prospective college athletes have to wonder if a coach's exclamation of joy or disappointment on Twitter may be construed as having potentially something to do with them. The NCAA has once again saved the children from these silent atrocities we have been forced to live with as being "acceptable", while truly being the source of evil incarnate. I for one applaud this excellent use of time that could in no way have been spent on other important issues facing college athletics.

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LSAClassOf2000

February 25th, 2016 at 3:26 PM ^

Of course, as with any NCAA rule, it remains to be seen just how stingy the enforcement department is with upholding their end of the bargain. That will require a lot of oversight to monitor the tweets of all head and assistant coaches, and there must be some room for interpretation to determine whether or not a tweet is in violation of the subtweeting rules.

You know, the NCAA has a lot of rules whose realistic, consistent enforcement would require quixotic means, to say the least, but this might very well be the best example yet and it isn't even a thing officially at the moment. I can't imagine an athletic department asking their compliance people to attempt THIS level of micromanagement of a staff. You'd do better to regulate the amount and content of Kanye West's Twitter dumps, epic and amusing though they sometimes are. 

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gwkrlghl

February 25th, 2016 at 4:01 PM ^

So this tweet from Coach Wheatley

 

...is it about Isaiah Wilson? Maybe? Probably? But it's 100% impossible to prove.

The NCAA is dumb and this might be one of the dumbest things I've ever heard them suggest.

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PopeLando

February 25th, 2016 at 4:09 PM ^

Maybe I'm missing something. Subtweeting is when you refer to somebody or something without referencing their Twitter handle, right? If so, then you can file this under the "I HOPE people comply" category of NCAA rules. Unless they plan on hiring a battery of millenials to determine when a recruit is being subtweeted. By the way, I move for a semantics change: the past tense of "Tweet" should be "Twat." All in favor?

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Crisler 71

February 25th, 2016 at 4:13 PM ^

If simple game officials can not call intentional grounding because "the player meant to throw the ball past the line of scrimmage" I'm confident that there are NCAA officials who can look at a vague text and tell exactly what the intent was and to whom it is intended or referring.

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Hab

February 25th, 2016 at 4:58 PM ^

So essentially, the NCAA is attempting to get ahead of the Harbaugh machine.  I find this funny since now the NCAA is going to start looking crazy rather than coach.  Have at fellas.

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TheCool

February 25th, 2016 at 6:53 PM ^

Well, since the NCAA rarely enforces it's rules and when they do it's usually disproportionate to the offense, they might as well make some unenforceable rules. I mean, fuck it, right?

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UMProud

February 25th, 2016 at 7:44 PM ^

NCAA makes me laugh.  In 2016 they are up in arms about Jim Harbaugh trying to up his recruiting game by using reprehensible tactics such as visiting other states with his team to practice!  Oh the horror!

 

Meanwhile 3 years ago the NCAA did not give a shit about these tweets...

Treadwell/Ole Miss

Liner/Alabama

 

Amazing how they want to go after a guy who's out there busting his ass trying to maximize his resources, land great recruits and build his program.  Yet suspicious things like this seem to garner not even a glance.

 

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