What purpose does the NCAA serve?

Take our money and pretend like they’re providing us with a service. Like, even the eligibility center cost like $100.

They organize competition and provide a set of rules.

Kvothe wrote:

They organize competition and provide a set of rules.

so in otherwords....no, we don't need them.

The NCAA serves the purposes of international Feminist Marxism, destroying the will of male-student athlete-runners to live by taking their scholarship money, sinking them into debt, and giving all women full rides.

sums it up wrote:

Kvothe wrote:

They organize competition and provide a set of rules.

so in otherwords....no, we don't need them.

Right. Just go run road races.

They pay for hotel/flight/per diem for the 24th best D3 triple jumper to get last at D3 nationals

They pay for a team/staff of 20+ b-ball players to fly across the country to lose in the first round to Duke.

They pay for the 3rd string qb to fly to Hawaii for the Hawaii Bowl

You sound like you just saw the NCAA episode of Blue Mountain State

Once upon a time they did a reasonably good job of enforcing the rules, but ever since Mark Emmert took over they have been a joke. UNC should have gotten massive sanctions but got nothing, but they were so quick to pile on Penn State that they embarrassed themselves. Meanwhile college basketball is about to erupt into dumpster fire thanks to the FBI while the NCAA stands idly by, and you have college football recruits making decisions based on schools and boosters openly hiring their family members. How this guy even still has a job is one of life’s great mysteries.

I wish the NCAA would lighten up the eligibility rules for runners.

I wish I could go back to school and run 2 more years...

Kvothe wrote:

sums it up wrote:

so in otherwords....no, we don't need them.

Right. Just go run road races.

right......like the high schools do.

alex moran wrote:

You sound like you just saw the NCAA episode of Blue Mountain State

and you sound like a bit of an @sshole

thanks for the contribution to the thread. real meaningful input.

Heck yeah best show ever

The NCAA oversees the championships of just about every collegiate sport and also oversees the rules of competition. The people who think that the NCAA is some bureaucracy that makes money and keeps it don't get it. The presidents of the colleges that belong to the NCAA make the major decisions. Each sport and division have committees that oversee their sport. NCAA committees have representatives from different schools serving on the committees. If not for the March Madness TV contract, the NCAA would not have the money to fund the championships. If the individual schools had to pay for everything involved with going to a nationals (flight / transportation, hotels, car rentals, meals), you would see a lot fewer people competing at nationals and getting the opportunity for the experience. There are certainly issues with college sports, but to say that the NCAA serves no purpose shows a significant lack of understanding of how things work.

and you sir wrote:

alex moran wrote:

You sound like you just saw the NCAA episode of Blue Mountain State

and you sound like a bit of an @sshole

thanks for the contribution to the thread. real meaningful input.

Legitimately meant it. If you don't believe me, check it out for yourself. The main character makes a lot of the same points that you do.

alex moran wrote:

and you sir wrote:

and you sound like a bit of an @sshole

thanks for the contribution to the thread. real meaningful input.

Legitimately meant it. If you don't believe me, check it out for yourself. The main character makes a lot of the same points that you do.

sorry, I take it back then. Assumed it was typical LRC snark. I'll check it out, only seen a few episodes.

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alex moran wrote:

Legitimately meant it. If you don't believe me, check it out for yourself. The main character makes a lot of the same points that you do.

sorry, I take it back then. Assumed it was typical LRC snark. I'll check it out, only seen a few episodes.

No problem. The episode is towards the end of the show so if you don't want to watch the whole thing I believe there is a 1 minute clip on YouTube that briefly sums up their NCAA situation.

Kvothe wrote:

sums it up wrote:

so in otherwords....no, we don't need them.

Right. Just go run road races.

Are you really this dense?

spotted the NCAA shill

Not a schill, but just a long-time coach who feels strongly that our sport is better served by having the NCAA sponsor the championships than leaving it up to the individual schools to pay for everything. Many years ago, the NCAA would only pay for one of the track championships and the school had to decide which they would choose (Indoors or Out). There were a number of athletes who qualified for championships but didn't go because the schools wouldn't pay if they weren't going to place. The NCAA has many faults but Cross Country / Track and Field is better off with them.