Washington State HC Mike Leach blasts the NCAA re: satellite camps
“It appears that the selfish interests of a few schools and conferences prevailed over the best interests of future potential student-athletes,” WSU coach Mike Leach said in a text message to the Seattle Times. “The mission of universities and athletic programs should be to provide future student-athletes with exposure to opportunities, not to limit them. It appears to me that some universities and conferences are willing to sacrifice the interests of potential student-athletes for no better reasons than to selfishly monopolize their recruiting bases.
“I will be fascinated to hear any legitimate reasoning behind this ruling.”
Boom
...Roasted.
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The Pirate Captain has always been my second favorite coach.
...just swung his, um, sword across the NCAA's face.
Leach said it perfectly
This is absolute truth.
I've never, EVER been a proponent of getting rid of the NCAA, but at this point they serve no purpose. People are still being paid EVERYWHERE and the only legislation that passes is biased towards specific member schools.
We lose nothing but the pretense of legitimacy by doing so.
Get rid of them. This absolutely hurts high school kids. Fucking outrageous.
“The NCAA is so mad at Kentucky it will probably slap another two years probation on Cleveland State.’’
Well put. The only other reason I can think of is that other coaches didn't want to work as hard as remaining competitive would require.
The NCAA and FIFA should bang. They're perfect for each other.
Yep, and bring in the IOC to spice things up.
Yep, those three. Corruption incarnate.
Sometimes I think FIFA might be the least evil because the NCAA and, at least in the past, the IOC, try to make their money on the backs of 'amateur' athletes. But then I think of Sepp Blatter and his third-world cronies siphoning off tens of millions of dollars meant to help people, and I'm like Nah they all can burn in hell.
This Mike Leach fellow, I like him. He seems like he has a pretty level head on his shoulders.
As most people probably know, this is no ordinary football coach. He has a J.D. from Pepperdine.
One of the most beautiful law school campuses in the country. Great public practice exam bank too.
They're in Malibu and a stones throw from the Pacific Ocean. Not many other schools can compete with that...
well put, well said.
go waves.
Yay Go Waves! Fellow law school alum here.
It was a hard place to study when the library overlooks the ocean!
-U of M, B of A, 1997
-Pepperdine SOL, JD, 2000.
great place to go to school, got me over the disappointment of not getting into michigan's law school quite quickly.
You fascinate me.
Per the SEC.
Emperor Saban wanted this ruling, so Empereor Saban got this ruling.
He doesn't want to work in the offseason.
It was either this ruling or letting Alabama and only Alabama sign 180 players on scholarships a year to keep the status quo.
Live footage from Tuscaloosa....
Nick of time...
What about the kids?!?
swing your sword!
Get 100 coaches saying this publicly, (with an implied threat of litigation by some enterprising young lawyer) and the NCAA will cave.
CJK5H
Allegedly, do you want to get sued?
Unfortunately there aren't 100 coaches that think this/are willing to work hard enough to want to keep the camps legal. Even the Pac-12 voted against it as a conference.
You only need one coach to mount a legal challenge.
Except his own conference voted for the rule.
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the muckety-mucks
I knew I liked this guy for a reason. Well said, Mike.
Mic dropped.
Mike droppin' the mic!
Even Valenti is standing up for Harbaugh and killing the NCAA today. I really doubt they expected this kind of blowback for this.
THEY DON'T WANT US TO HAVE A BIGGER POOL THAN KANYE.
If a tool like Leach can see the truth wtf is the NCAA doing
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I hope teams stop scheduling the sec for the payday now
What about the hookers?
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The ncaa will still allow
Satellite camps for hookers.
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only if you pay the athletes and give them fake grades
NCAA sucks. This whole idea of marking the territory is absurd. Hope SEC and ACC get f***ed every year. Talk about hypocrisy. Hope more coaches openly challenge this. I really hope Harbaugh does not get fed up with NCAA and its absurdities. Let us win a couple of championships in a row. Go Blue and F*** NCAA
Looks like we have a known friend and trusted ally in Pullman, WA.
next coaching clinic guest speaker
Leach and Harbaugh are from the same mentality. They sort of just do what they want and say what they wanna say
Seems like Harbaugh may not need to say or tweet anything. It will be said by others.