Spring break camp ban is passed by SEC puppet entity NCAA
https://twitter.com/danwolken/status/822475747331710977
January 20th, 2017 at 11:16 AM ^
Yeah let's limit a free spring break trip for students! Thanks, SEC!
January 20th, 2017 at 11:48 AM ^
#theworst
January 20th, 2017 at 1:27 PM ^
You can also thank our B1G brethren who voted 11-4 for the ban.
January 20th, 2017 at 1:37 PM ^
15 votes?
January 20th, 2017 at 1:40 PM ^
Typo 11-3
January 20th, 2017 at 1:43 PM ^
Gotcha. Ok. I wonder who the other two votes were with us.
January 20th, 2017 at 2:37 PM ^
Doesn't Chicago still have a vote?
January 20th, 2017 at 6:51 PM ^
voted against the ban 11-4.
January 20th, 2017 at 1:44 PM ^
I'm going to guess the only schools who voted to not ban are Michigan, Ohio State, and Wisconsin or Penn State.
January 20th, 2017 at 1:46 PM ^
Yeah, I was thinking the 3rd would be Wisconsin or Penn State too. Didn't Penn State criticize it at some point last year? I seem to remember Franklin making comments about it.
January 20th, 2017 at 2:01 PM ^
Betting on Maryland, they have the money and need the exposure. Wisconsin are cheap fucks.
January 20th, 2017 at 12:58 PM ^
Fucking Dickstains
January 20th, 2017 at 12:59 PM ^
Except the NCAA....errr. SEC will allow payments for all SEC schools.
January 20th, 2017 at 1:04 PM ^
Paul Finebaum is still a fuckstick.
January 20th, 2017 at 1:40 PM ^
What if a football player wants to take an actual vacation during the break? I understand the benefits to us going down in FL to recuit players, but what if some players do not want to practice during their vacation. If Jim wants to take his players to FL to scape the cold, he can still do it. They just cannot practice while there.
January 20th, 2017 at 1:58 PM ^
The NCAA and the SEC are awful and deserve the hate this board gives them, but what no one here has mentioned is that Student-Athletes are also in favor for it. This proposal was put forward to all SAACs (Student Athlete Advisory Committee, governing body of student-athletes run by student-athletes located at every NCAA school) and they all voted in favor of a ban over forced practices during school breaks in the offseason. This wasn't as much the NCAA protecting their golden child in the SEC, this was all athletes in all sports wanting this.
January 20th, 2017 at 3:12 PM ^
its turf. But let's not kid ourselves that this was about anything but recruiting from Jim's point of view. What I hope he will do is to take the team to IMG for other activities (fun and otherwise) during the break. They can do all kind of eye catching stuff and get even more publicity out of it.
January 20th, 2017 at 2:46 PM ^
This could be a valid point if they had banned out of season practices during school breaks. However, they didn't do that. They only banned off campus out of season practices during school breaks. This, to me, is the most hypocritcal aspect of the ban. If they truly had the interests of the "student-athletes" in mind, they could have and should have taken it a step further. Instead, it is a very pointed ruling.
January 20th, 2017 at 6:49 PM ^
Yep, you win.
January 20th, 2017 at 5:22 PM ^
I enjoyed spring break/training trips in college. Sure, two-a-day crew practices were no picnic, but we got to scrimmage a couple other schools, and we had fun.
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January 20th, 2017 at 1:47 PM ^
Oops. double post
January 20th, 2017 at 11:18 AM ^
However, I am fully confident that Harbaugh has 10 different backup plans to fuck with the NCAA.
January 20th, 2017 at 12:39 PM ^
I'm with Brian's plan:
they ban anything legal you try to get an edge with while simultaneously flouting the One Rule--don't pay 'em--with impunity
— mgoblog (@mgoblog) January 20, 2017
Unleash the bagmen. The NCAA doesn't give a shit about them, so why should anyone else? And Michigan has more money than just about everyone. If the SEC wants to bring piss to a shit fight, let 'em.
January 20th, 2017 at 12:54 PM ^
Honestly I'm with you. Let's just pay recruits. The NCAA shuts down any legal ideas that Harbaugh comes up with. They don't seem to care about bagmen so screw it. Let the bidding war begin!
January 20th, 2017 at 2:21 PM ^
One Rule to Rule them All. This is pure awesome!
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January 20th, 2017 at 11:19 AM ^
Harbaugh is always better than the NCAA. Can't wait to see what he comes up with next.
January 20th, 2017 at 11:21 AM ^
Thats plagiarism
January 20th, 2017 at 11:49 AM ^
I dropped the y in the first they. Lawyers approved it.
January 20th, 2017 at 12:08 PM ^
They will not stop Harbaugh. We will find a way
January 20th, 2017 at 11:19 AM ^
if this will trickle into other ncaa sports that have practices over "breaks" at off campus locations!
January 20th, 2017 at 12:25 PM ^
At some point, someone needs to attack this latest piece of rule making as well as the reduction of summer camps via the courts under the auspices of antitrust.
January 20th, 2017 at 11:19 AM ^
So you can do it in every other collegiate sport except Football? Makes sense, good job NCAA.
Why not just name it the "Fuck Jim Harbaugh and All of Our Student Athletes" rule?
January 20th, 2017 at 11:21 AM ^
Student athlete is a nauseating term coined by these slimebuckets.
Softball plays its first 23 games away from home this year.
Water Polo played 28 of 38 games away from home last year.
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January 20th, 2017 at 11:38 AM ^
They're students and they're athletes. What should they be called?
January 20th, 2017 at 12:48 PM ^
The term was invented to avoid future classification of "student athletes" as employees, thereby avoiding worker protections and compensation.
I know people want to avoid NCAA football turning into the NFL but we're already there in all ways except the athletes getting their share of the pie. Owners/universities use the NFL front office/NCAA to do their bidding in the interest of restricting athlete compensation and ability to move team-to-team.
January 20th, 2017 at 7:11 PM ^
That's quite the tinfoil beanie you've made, there. Who's behind the NFL, pulling their strings? Freemasons, Commies, or Illuminati?
January 20th, 2017 at 1:29 PM ^
Revenue sources?
January 20th, 2017 at 12:54 PM ^
Most of the golf team lives in off campus housing .....in Florida
January 20th, 2017 at 1:18 PM ^
How hard would it be to establish a satellite "campus" each spring and then shut it down after spring practice?
[Edit -- looks like I needed to read further down the thread where this exact idea was already posted!]
January 20th, 2017 at 11:21 AM ^
What a joke... It's taken the NCAA 3 years to look into allegations of paying players at Ole Miss, but the spring break ban passed in no time, because that is much more detrimental to the integrity of the NCAA.
January 20th, 2017 at 11:33 AM ^
That's because all it requires them to do is sit in a big conference room, eat donuts and pie, smoke a few cigars, and talk. That's a pretty easy and/or enjoyable job, especially when it involves discussing the mischiefs of Jim Harbaugh.
Investigations on the other hand actually require traveling to and fro AND writing stuff down on legal pads. It's difficult work.
January 20th, 2017 at 11:37 AM ^
That and Ole Miss is in the NCAA darling conference.
January 20th, 2017 at 11:54 AM ^
out the circle jerk.
January 20th, 2017 at 1:38 PM ^
If I listed everything they did in those meetings I'd be forced to create a diary.
January 20th, 2017 at 3:20 PM ^
He was talking about the NCAA, so it's implied.
January 20th, 2017 at 2:18 PM ^
Where is your proof. Conspiracy!!!!!!!!!!!
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January 20th, 2017 at 11:21 AM ^
Isn't this the same as the thread as 2 down?
January 20th, 2017 at 11:21 AM ^
I wonder if University of Michigan buying property elsewhere constitutes as campus if they put a "study hall" on the property with tutors? Don't have to use the study hall, but it would then be considered part of campus, no?