Vicious Rants of an Angry Yellow Man

Any pretense that the NCAA worries about acaemics as much as athletics is thrown out of the window this week. The NCAA decided that athletes from colleges that are affected significantly by hurricane Katrina can compete without having to go to classes this year. On the other hand, if an athlete decides to transfer to another school and go to classes, then he must sit out one year. I am sure most athletes would have stayed on the same team anyways since for most of them going to classes is a necessary evil. If an athlete wants to graduate on time and actually go to classes at another school, he would lose a year of sports. The NCAA is worried about "massive looting" by some schools. This is absurd. The number of athletes who want to go from playing sports exclusively to having to attend classes at a strange setting in order to play with new teammates would be small. The ones who want to be really student athletes and move to another school in order to attend classes should not be penalized. The schools that would "loot" other schools at this time of tragedy would be criticize all over the country and the NCAA can penalize them.

Once again the NCAA do not have the athlete's interests at heart. But then what do you expect from an organization who would penalize 18 years old for minor infraction while adult coaches who cheat are able to move on to another job without retribution?