ONCE and FOR ALL: can alums run with their college teams?

no alumni at practice wrote:

But she said no, becasue accepting the prize would just make him ineligeble, not end his elgibility and thus he could not be the student coach.

Does the compliance officer even have a high school diploma?

What school do you go to? I exhausted my eligibility many years ago, but if your compliance officer knows of some workaround to make someone who is "ineligible" eligible again, that would be great!

Holland Nass wrote:

no alumni at practice wrote:

But she said no, becasue accepting the prize would just make him ineligeble, not end his elgibility and thus he could not be the student coach.

Does the compliance officer even have a high school diploma?

What school do you go to? I exhausted my eligibility many years ago, but if your compliance officer knows of some workaround to make someone who is "ineligible" eligible again, that would be great!

You have never really looked at the NCAA rulebook have you? Logic is not always a criteria for NCAA rules.

My roommate's eligibility had not run out, but he ran really shity at the time trial, but last year he had been in our top seven, and this is his last semester in college. We have a roster limit of 16, and 2 red-shirt spots. We can switch who is a red-shirt and who is on the active roster week to week. I assure you our coach is not a complete idiot, however the compliance officer is enough of an idiot to make the entire school look like a bunch of idiots, and does not deserve any high school diploma that she may have.

As for the history of NCAA XC violations the only one I know of, is that a few years ago, we decided to start a summer e-mail list and send our logs to each other and our coach. DON'T DO THIS ON YOUR TEAM, because when the compliance officer saw one of the logs, it became out of season conditioning or something like that. At the end of it it was decided that although we could have communicated the same information in a phone conversation that would have been ok, but because we used e-mail it was a violation and we would be suspended for a week. Worse, our compliance director decided that because the NCAA originally wanted to give us a two week suspension that we couldn't fight the suspension either.

As for where the extra red shirt spot came from I have no idea, and everyone was very shocked when we actually got it. Technically we should already have it and more roster spots. School Title IX policy says that opposite gender teams should have the same resources as each other. The women have 20 roster spots, and I don't know how many red-shirt spots, because they have a hard time finding 20 women to show up for practice once so they can actually put them on the roster. Of course the school actually imposes more of a quota system like most other schools, but that complaint is for another thread and another time.

As for why the NCAA would worry about it, the only answer I can come up with is because they can. The NCAA seems to work very hard to prove that it is an anti-athlete organization in high profile cases, there is no reason for the NCAA to change its stance in a low profile situation. As previously stated logic is certainly not a requirement for NCAA rules.

To answer the question, "If the compliance officer is a male?"

He is still a bitch!

don't think they can but everyone does

on the subject, i was suspended for a competition because of a clerical error i had no idea about and it was fixed but that didnt make a difference even though the competition was 2 weeks after the error was fixed. I think the assistant AD said it best when he said "NCAA stands for No Clue About Athletics"

interesting

i meant that i agree with screwed