NCAA Bylaw 16.7: Reasonable Entertainment

Considering the outcome of the game, I wouldn't consider that reasonable entertainment.

I'm ok with the rule, seeing as how it seems to be enforced is to ask for permission.

that the MSU basketball team watched the football team get curb-stomped?

Do you suspect that money is flowing to more illicit activities? 

sense to me.  Rich schools can tell recruits "come play for us and you can go to Disneyland and the Final 4/CFP" but you can't stretch more than 12 minutes a week or eat 2 bagels and cream cheese in a day. 

So for Louisville, are hookers and blow considered reasonable entertainment???

Thank you for answering my question. I took quite a beating for that post. I'm still a bit miffed at StephenRKass for calling it petty and juvenile, comparing me to his 14 year old twins, and accusing me of being a "tattle-tale." Considering that the game was nationally televised for the whole world to see, I really don't consider that tattle-taling. Additionally, this is a college sports blog. Petty and juvenile describes half of the posts on here. IMHE, someone needs to extract the giant stick from their ass and develop a sense of humor. Life is much more enjoyable when you can laugh at the hypocrisy of the NCAA and Tom Izzo's Napoleon complex. Meanwhile, a couple days later nearly everybody is quick to condemn Peyton Manning for something there is no proof that he did, but let's all defend Tom Izzo. Wait, wut? And then someone sarcastically said a recruit's mom was getting a bag of cash because they decided to attend Texas instead of UofM. And the MGoThoughtPolice got all up in arms and negged away. It's called sarcasm, people, and it doesn't always need to be identified as such with the little "/s" tag.

(Good Lord, am I really on the same side of this argument as the Mad Hatter?!?)

P.S. for the sake of completeness:

Link: http://www.mgoblue.com/sports/m-footbl/stats/010116aab.html

Burst of Impetus - Jarrod Wilson's endzone INT

FWIW, I've decided to stop writing my weekly diary on the boxscore. It just felt too much like work recently and was not fun anymore. That decision had nothing to do with the negative reaction I received from the MSU post. In my defense, I grew up in East Lansing. I dealt with spartans for 14 years. That's 14 years of getting your trees TP'd, your car windows soaped, your pumpkins smashed, and irritating bumper stickers placed on your car. All for what? Because we were the notorious UofM family on the block? So yes, if MSU blatantly flouts the spirit of the NCAA rules regarding improper benefits, I'm going to call them on it. Thanks to this post, I now know they followed the rules (wink, wink.) How decent of them.

It's obviously not an NCAA violation if Izzo is parading the team in Dallas in front of cameras. MSU is our number 3, and a distant number 3, rival at best. Yes, it's closer in basketball because we're more of a basketball state, but the obsession of nitpicking some potential NCAA violation that literally no one with authority cared about should stop. Our rival is Ohio State, our secondary rival is Notre Dame, both of those rivalries are national while the MSU rivalry is regional. This stuff makes us look petty, like Free Press worrying about counting stretching as practice time petty.