NCAA makes mischief, not sense

[1reVOLver]

Read this good summary before considering self-harm. The damage may be limited, and will certainly be making money for the
lawyers.

New NCAA Eligibility Requirements Could Impact Top International Players

The guidance issued this month largely surrounds compensation and professional team involvement, but how it will be enforced is unclear.

www.si.com

In short, the boffins of the NCAA, having failed to fix reffing or the catastrophic NIL and revenue sharing mess (Death to Amateurism!),
have decided that they know just precisely how much a European kid can earn before hopping across the pond to the good ole US of A where the sky’s the bloody limit.

Based on historical research—read the newspapers, beyond just the funnies—I give you most heartfelt assurances that they cannot spell, let alone define, PPP. Stands for Purchasing Power Parity, and contributes heavily to foreign exchange rates. So, for example, a big old Victorian house up coast in @Rooster1 territory—potatoes and not very many people—might go for say $275k, while a very similar home in Cornwall, England, Great Britain, might cost £1.5 million, or roughly $1.85 million USD. But, and it’s a biggie, UK wages are much, much higher in local currency, so the same sort of
workers who can buy the Maine home with US wages can afford the mortgage on the Brit heap with British wages.
Point is, the Charlie Bakers haven’t a clue about this stuff. They toss out a number, say €51,000 per annum, and if a kid got a euro more Kim Mulkey can’t buy them.

1. Dumb.
2. Invites litigation for, amongst other things, restraint of trade,
3. cost to monitor?
4. appeals process?
5. Abso-plucking-lutely invites and begs for retaliation by Euro leagues vs. American players.

Oh, did I mention how stupid it is?

 

[Sudden Impact]

I guess the NCAA thinks they stayed at a Holiday Inn Express. This sounds more like a Motel 8.

The NCAA in full is a bunch of pricks and pricketts that have never had a job that required they use their brains to govern, manage, or monitor an organization that requires a thought process through planning and process.

An administrative political agency with no real authority to govern, manage and verify accurately a set of obsolete rules that has done nothing but collect a pay check for themselves and the organization.

This organization continues to work behind the power curve and it is all about the money. $$$$$$$$$

 

[stllvf]

the related question is how to define a foreign player as a professional or non-professional and eligible to play college sports. the logic/ stupidity introduced in the opening thread is just as difficult to explain. (my often repeated story of many decades ago Clemson purchased a soccer team from their owner/politican/alledged warlord and the next year won the NCAA championship).

My belief is that most power-4 recognize that all decisions include possible litigation, judges ruling based on their interpretation of the LAW. I would suggest boarders would have many different interpretation of what constitutes "eligibility" and probably what is the definition of a "college student - who plays a major sport."

Again, not new - UT once had a star HS basketball player who played the first semester as a freshman this was dismissed - flunked all courses - could not read and even the athletic powers could not protect him as a "college student - who plays a major sport" that can be and is being done now at many power schools

 

[savannahfan]

SO,,,,, who gives a dam-!! I say now and have for years "let the athletic foreigners stay foreign" !!! How many American kids get left out of sports who may have made superstars are victims of these foreigners? If they are coming as "paying" students for the learning experience, then let them come and pay,,, not play!!!

 

[feathersax]

N.C.A.A.=Noob Clowns Always Artbitrarty

 

[1reVOLver]

SO,,,,, who gives a dam-!! I say now and have for years "let the athletic foreigners stay foreign" !!! How many American kids get left out of sports who may have made superstars are victims of these foreigners? If they are coming as "paying" students for the learning experience, then let them come and pay,,, not play!!!

Read the warning label: You can get permanently cross-eyed from excessive navel gazing. Unless you are “pure” Native American, you've got immigrant ancestors.

I say now and have for years "let the narrow minded look through the keyhole with both eyes at once, astonished how much world is upstairs from Momma's dank basement !!!”

 

[BruisedOrange]

Let me offer a different approach.

When people with power, money, or influence do stupid things with predictably stupid consequences... it usually isn't stupid--it's just for someone's benefit other than the participants or the general public. In case you haven't noticed, the people who eventually walk away with the money, seldom object to being called "stupid" by the public.

I'd like to hear smarter brains than mine game this one out.

Who actually benefit$ from such a requirement? Or, who benefit$ from what happens after the requirement is challenged and overturned in court?