NCAA will allow basketball players to have agents

[Gulo Blue]

https://www.cbssports.com/college-b...caa-makes-major-changes-in-wake-of-fbi-probe/

• All players who declare for the NBA Draft but go undrafted will have the option to return to their former school.
• Elite prospects will now be allowed to have official relationships with agents. This applies to high schoolers and college athletes alike. USA Basketball will be tasked with identifying which prospects in a given class are "elite."
• The NCAA is requiring all school presidents, chancellors and athletics staff members to contractually comply with any and all future investigations. This is the NCAA's way of trying to institute a de facto version of subpoena power, which it lacked previously.
• School presidents and chancellors will now personally be held accountable by the NCAA for their athletic departments abiding by the rules.
• The FBI's case into college basketball brought about mounds of documents of information. Previously, the NCAA did not allow for information and findings from outside investigations at established agencies to be used in its infractions process. Effective immediately, the NCAA and its Committee on Infractions can use information obtained in other probes as a means to an end for its own investigations. This will be implemented immediately by the NCAA with the schools currently caught up in the Department of Justice's case regarding multiple schools and alleged violation of multiple federal laws.
• The recruiting calendar, as detailed here, is getting a major overhaul. In a first, college coaches will be allowed to attend the NBA Players Association Top 100 camp each June. Also, the first live period of July will be attendable for non-scholastic events.

 

[Gulo Blue]

So, I guess all the schools that were going to get in trouble, aren't going to get in trouble. I saw a random post elsewhere asserting that Tressel getting the boot over lying about tattoos represented the end of NCAA rules and enforcement being about those sorts of things, and now we're in a new "modern era" of rules where you're not going to get in trouble unless you have a scandal that involves actual crime. Academic cheating and players getting benefits is no longer shocking enough for the NCAA to do anything about it.

 

[thewolverines24]

So, I guess all the schools that were going to get in trouble, aren't going to get in trouble. I saw a random post elsewhere asserting that Tressel getting the boot over lying about tattoos represented the end of NCAA rules and enforcement being about those sorts of things, and now we're in a new "modern era" of rules where you're not going to get in trouble unless you have a scandal that involves actual crime. Academic cheating and players getting benefits is no longer shocking enough for the NCAA to do anything about it.

Do you really think any of them were going to get in trouble anyway? UNC committed academic fraud for two decades and nothing happened to them.

The NCAA has levied two punishments that affected programs since 1987. SMU and Michigan basketball.

 

[Gulo Blue]

Do you really think any of them were going to get in trouble anyway? UNC committed academic fraud for two decades and nothing happened to them.

The NCAA has levied two punishments that affected programs since 1987. SMU and Michigan basketball.

Exactly. That's the modern era. Whatever it is the NCAA is supposed to do these days, it isn't enforce academic or amateur rules.

 

[hungry]

Well, Pitino got fired for some hookers.

 

[thewolverines24]

Well, Pitino got fired for some hookers.

Yeah, but they were unattractive hookers. That was the key.