@Brent_Hubbs
@Rob Lewis
@Austin_Price
I'd like to get your thoughts too
1. Student-athletes should have it explained to them, and they should have to sign a separate agreement, prior to signing scholarship players of the rules in regards to accepting benefits. It should be known to them that doing so could cost them any chance at a professional career in their sport and even their scholarship. If a coach or a booster offers them something, they need to refuse it or risk the consequences.
If an investigation finds that a particular player or a group of players received any kind of illegal benefits, they should immediately be banned from competing at the NCAA level. They shouldn't be given the option of transferring to another school either. If say, a school is investigated in 2021 and a player or group of players are found to have received illegal benefits, every game that player or group of players has played in has to be forfeited to a loss. If a school won a conference to a national title that year, it's stripped away and vacated. If that player is already playing at the professional level and he or she decides to tell the world about illegal benefits he or she received or other players received, the NCAA can open up an investigation and go back with no statute of limitations and strip that school of wins and titles if wrongdoing is found.
These student-athletes are grown adults who are old enough to serve in the military. They're plenty old enough to understand how rules work and understand right from wrong. Under this model, their teammates can hold them accountable as well.
2. As far as head coaches, assistant coaches, and athletics directors go... if it's found that a head coach, an assistant coach, or athletic director gave illegal benefits to student-athletes, signed off on it, or knew about it and did nothing, and an investigation by the NCAA confirms it, there should be a scale based on the severity of the infractions. One-year bans from coaching at or being the athletics director of any and all NCAA schools should be enforced. More severe infractions should result in 5, 10, 15, and lifetime bans.
It isn't right that fans and players who want to play or may have grown up dreaming of playing for a particular school should be punished for wrongdoing by a player, group of players, a head coach, an assistant head coach, or an athletics director they had no control over. Fans should not be punished either.
It's not right that the NCAA can take their time in handing down punishment while some schools can negatively recruit against them by saying "you won't be able to compete in the playoffs with that team. Who knows what the NCAA may end up doing to them in the next 4 years" or "Who knows how much depth that school will be missing over the next 4 years while the NCAA decides what to do with them". Not only can rival schools kill a school with negative recruiting, but the NCAA also hasn't even handed down the punishment yet. The waiting game destroying a school is just as bad as the punishment itself.
It also isn't right that some schools who have won numerous championships have likely cheated their butts off and gotten by with it because they have perfected it. This model would bit them in the butts if they had to go back and forfeit some or all of their titles.
What do you think?
@Rob Lewis
@Austin_Price
I'd like to get your thoughts too
1. Student-athletes should have it explained to them, and they should have to sign a separate agreement, prior to signing scholarship players of the rules in regards to accepting benefits. It should be known to them that doing so could cost them any chance at a professional career in their sport and even their scholarship. If a coach or a booster offers them something, they need to refuse it or risk the consequences.
If an investigation finds that a particular player or a group of players received any kind of illegal benefits, they should immediately be banned from competing at the NCAA level. They shouldn't be given the option of transferring to another school either. If say, a school is investigated in 2021 and a player or group of players are found to have received illegal benefits, every game that player or group of players has played in has to be forfeited to a loss. If a school won a conference to a national title that year, it's stripped away and vacated. If that player is already playing at the professional level and he or she decides to tell the world about illegal benefits he or she received or other players received, the NCAA can open up an investigation and go back with no statute of limitations and strip that school of wins and titles if wrongdoing is found.
These student-athletes are grown adults who are old enough to serve in the military. They're plenty old enough to understand how rules work and understand right from wrong. Under this model, their teammates can hold them accountable as well.
2. As far as head coaches, assistant coaches, and athletics directors go... if it's found that a head coach, an assistant coach, or athletic director gave illegal benefits to student-athletes, signed off on it, or knew about it and did nothing, and an investigation by the NCAA confirms it, there should be a scale based on the severity of the infractions. One-year bans from coaching at or being the athletics director of any and all NCAA schools should be enforced. More severe infractions should result in 5, 10, 15, and lifetime bans.
It isn't right that fans and players who want to play or may have grown up dreaming of playing for a particular school should be punished for wrongdoing by a player, group of players, a head coach, an assistant head coach, or an athletics director they had no control over. Fans should not be punished either.
It's not right that the NCAA can take their time in handing down punishment while some schools can negatively recruit against them by saying "you won't be able to compete in the playoffs with that team. Who knows what the NCAA may end up doing to them in the next 4 years" or "Who knows how much depth that school will be missing over the next 4 years while the NCAA decides what to do with them". Not only can rival schools kill a school with negative recruiting, but the NCAA also hasn't even handed down the punishment yet. The waiting game destroying a school is just as bad as the punishment itself.
It also isn't right that some schools who have won numerous championships have likely cheated their butts off and gotten by with it because they have perfected it. This model would bit them in the butts if they had to go back and forfeit some or all of their titles.
What do you think?
