Another case of the NCAA and the stupidest rules ever
OU Football players penalized for eating too much at a graduation banquet.
To have their eligibility reinstated, the three had to donate $3.83 each (the cost of the pasta servings) to charities of their choice.
I thought the NCAA was supposed to be "re-writing the rulebook" and eliminating stupid rules like this and 'Bagels, but no cream cheese'. Guess not...
February 19th, 2014 at 6:04 PM ^
Pasta? Really?? You'd think the NCAA would be more concerned about too much sauce. /s
Funny tweets, the NCAA said to pay $3.83 (cumong, man), so they paid $5.
February 19th, 2014 at 6:10 PM ^
Honest question: Would you be surprised if over-paying an NCAA fine by a dollar was an NCAA violation?
February 19th, 2014 at 6:13 PM ^
"Talking out of turn? That's a paddlin'. Lookin' out the window? That's a paddlin'. Staring at my sandals? That's a paddlin'. Paddlin' the school canoe? Oh, you better believe that's a paddlin'."
February 19th, 2014 at 6:29 PM ^
Not a dollar, but a dollar and seventeen cents!!! OMG! Teh humanity!!!
Some NCAA bean counter is having a conniption.
February 19th, 2014 at 6:38 PM ^
A little, since the NCAA loves their dollars, but it definitely wouldn't surprise me if it led to an investigation about where this suspicious extra disposable income came from.
February 19th, 2014 at 7:05 PM ^
Somewhere in Indianapolis, Mark Emmert just went cross-eyed for what he thinks is apparently no reason at all. He has no idea that your proposed paradoxical situation is to blame.
February 19th, 2014 at 6:12 PM ^
I could be wrong, but I seem to remember in reading the Division I Handbook that there is a cap on the value of meals provided at incidental functions, so in the strictest sense, they would have had to self-report it. Still, between Oklahoma's compliance department and NCAA correspondence, they spent more documenting the violation than the cost of the meals plus the overage and much more beyond that. It does seem rather silly actually.
February 19th, 2014 at 7:10 PM ^
if they are willing to self report this can you imagine what they aren't reporting themselves for??? the NCAA better get down there pronto and set up a decade long investigation.
February 19th, 2014 at 6:14 PM ^
February 19th, 2014 at 6:24 PM ^
Every time a player gets penalized for something is f'ing insane as eating too much pasta while programs like Miami, Oregon, Auburn, etc. all operate unhindered despite significant findings or allegations, I want more and more for the players to win their pay-for-play argument just to stick it to the NCAA. What a stupid institution.
February 19th, 2014 at 6:32 PM ^
To add to the absurdity, I bet any leftover pasta, at least whatever wasn't eaten by the food service workers, got thrown out.
February 19th, 2014 at 6:39 PM ^
I have the same opinion I have had for a long time. They don't have to pay players; all they have to do is allow them to accept money from whoever wants to pay them, like any student on a scholarship that doesn't involve sports would be allowed to do.
February 19th, 2014 at 7:02 PM ^
You don't have an issue with boosters straight up buying guys?
The 100 or so programs without millionaire/billionaire donors might as well just shut down.
February 19th, 2014 at 7:36 PM ^
You can completely disregard anything he says.
February 19th, 2014 at 9:17 PM ^
Are schools without millionaire/billionaire donors competitive now?
February 20th, 2014 at 12:50 AM ^
^^ this.
Current system: a handful of schools dominate the recruitment of elite prospects and can spend insane amounts on coaches and facilities.
System where boosters can pay players: a handful of schools (maybe a slightly different handful...I'm thinking Oklahoma State's classes might rank a little higher than the 30s with T. Boone Pickens' money going directly to recruits) dominate the recruitment of elite prospects and can spend insane amounts on coaches and facilities.
February 19th, 2014 at 6:42 PM ^
I'm sure there's some type of rule regarding what players can be given, including food. So they went a bit over their limit. If I spend $52 per day on meals and my company limit is $50 it would get flagged.
It's a little thing, but writing it up this way is just cheap piling on to a popular target, the NCAA.
February 19th, 2014 at 7:44 PM ^
I work at a very larger corporation, with a far, far lower profit than the NCAA makes, and our meals out are spelled out as in be ethical and it should be with said party (ie no large gift cards). I really hope the NW proceddings will at least get the NCAA into the commen sense era.
February 19th, 2014 at 11:10 PM ^
I don't like being a grammar nazi, but I got a headache from reading that.
February 19th, 2014 at 8:20 PM ^
In Oxford, Mississippi...
February 19th, 2014 at 8:26 PM ^
If only Mark Emmert had been there to heroically knock the offending forkfuls out of those greedy/hungry athletes' hands.
February 19th, 2014 at 8:50 PM ^
February 19th, 2014 at 9:26 PM ^
If you're given a six figure payment or a car it's ok.
If you take three dollars of pasta or twenty dollars of water from a garden hose it's not.
February 19th, 2014 at 11:15 PM ^
While the Sooners elected to self-report, the NCAA released a statement saying that what the three players did was not a violation of any NCAA rules. "While we appreciate Oklahoma's commitment, there are no NCAA rules regarding portion sizes, and any penalties were determined by the university," NCAA spokeswoman Meghan Durham said in a statement.
February 20th, 2014 at 1:20 AM ^