OT: Honest Question for MGoBlog Community re: off-season practice
All, I am not trying to be funny or provide a facetious undertone by this post - I truly do not understand the rules and am reaching out to our Community for perspective: Georgia recently indefinitely suspended its lead running back Washaun Ealey for disciplinary reasons (CLICK HERE). I applaud Mark Richt for instilling accountability into his team; however, the reason he was disciplined was because he missed a "punishment run."
Presumably this is common practice at campuses and Coach Carr was famous for his morning stadium stairs runs in the off-season, nonetheless, it seems that our Program has been recently chastised for our interpretation of what constitutes as countable practices hours (both during and off-season) where "punishment runs" would be permissible while GA is not.
Again, not trying to do anything from this post other than get an answer as to why it might be allowed at GA but constitute as reprimand at our Program. Is there something in the rules that I am missing?
Thanks, Go Blue
February 9th, 2011 at 10:22 AM ^
Because the Georgia newspapers don't have a vendetta against Mark Richt. And, it's the SEC, if they aren't going to stop blatantly oversigning what makes you think they're going to stop subtly overpracticing.
February 9th, 2011 at 10:26 AM ^
You're allowed to instill punishment during the school year but not over the summer while the kids are in summer school. That's why UM got in trouble on the punishment stuff, because it happened over the summer. So going back to Carr, all of those punishments occurred during the normal school year, which is fine.
February 9th, 2011 at 10:41 AM ^
Just goes to show you - you can always rely on Me for valuable information.
February 9th, 2011 at 11:00 AM ^
So when exactly did Arrington's legendary punishment runs occur? I know a lot of people like to point to those as evidence that Lloyd Carr was committing NCAA violations.
February 9th, 2011 at 11:21 AM ^
but if you're teling me otherwise, I have no reason to doubt you and I would amend what I said above about the Carr punishments. But, it doesn't really change the point that for whatever reason the NCAA draws the line at punishing kids, in UM's case for skipping class, between during the normal school year and in the summer, at least that's my understanding.
February 9th, 2011 at 11:14 AM ^
How can a question honest or dishonest? I thought those characteristics were reserved for declarative-type statements.
February 9th, 2011 at 11:19 AM ^
aw look at you! all those things you learned in linguistics classes have taken the place of your ability to speak english like a native.
February 9th, 2011 at 11:20 AM ^
honest, adj. [on-ist]
2. showing uprightness and fairness
...
8. humble, plain, or unadorned
Take your pick...
February 9th, 2011 at 12:45 PM ^
All summertime workouts must be voluntary. For a workout to be considered voluntary, Bylaw 17.02.13 says that the player must initiate and request it and must have the right to refuse to do it without repercussion. Accordingly, any workout that is done as punishment in the summertime violates the rules, unless the player volunteers to be punished.
During the school year, conditioning can be used as a punishment, but it would be countable against the time limits for mandatory conditioning (8 hours/week out of season or 20 hours/week in season).