INDIANAPOLIS, IN — A few months ago NCAA president Mark Emmert announced the formation of the Commission on College Basketball. It was supposed to be a response to the scandal created by the FBI investigation into bribery and corruption that rocked the college basketball world.
Well…on Wednesday the NCAA jumped out of the birthday cake butt naked foamin’ at the mouth with a bunch of new changes that are supposed to address all of this foolishness. There were several changes but just a couple that I care to address that make absolutely no sense.
Number One: Now the NCAA require all Division 1 schools to provide tuition, fees and books for former players who want to return to school and continue their education. Here’s the deal, the players must be no more than 10 years removed from school and they would have had to have completed at least two years of school already.
Here’s the problem I’ve got with that foolishness. At what point are we teaching our kids how to be responsible and to think before making life changing decisions? If you’re telling the kid that he can literally bounce with no consequence, come back and the school will still pay for it you’ve taught them absolutely nothing about being accountable for their actions.
And yes, I know that some big time programs like Duke and Kentucky already have this policy in place but they’ve got the budgets to do so and they are sending kids to the NBA forty goin’ north. What about duns like Miami of Ohio, Bowling Green or IUPUI that don’t have the major budgets to do so.
Now don’t get it twisted, I could care less about the school’s budgets and how they would have to pay for this foolishness because most of them are getting over on these kids anyway. However, I am concerned about what we’re teaching our kids when you give them the opportunity to walk away from a free education and then they get to come back within 10 years.
As a grown man you’ve got to be able to make grown man decisions. So when you decide to dip for whatever reason you’ve got to be held accountable for that decision. Now all you’ve done is give a kid the option to be irresponsible with the gift that he’s been given in terms of a free education, go play around and then come back.
What happens when a dun at the Jackson State decides that he wants a break from school for whatever reason after two years. He’s goes out into the world and figures out that it’s too hard to survive without his degree. Then decides that he wants to go back to school five years later and JSU has to pick up the tab. That’s crazy!!! They don’t have the budgets to cover that? Now the NCAA says that they will have a budget set aside to cover it but what are we teaching our young people about making good decisions?
The kid that gets drafted shouldn’t be allowed to come back and finish his degree on the university’s dime or the NCAA’s dime. They should have to pay for their own completion of that degree because they made the decision to bounce and they’ve made the bread to pay for it.
The kid that doesn’t get drafted has to live with the fact that they made the wrong decision about their future when duns have already told them that they may not get drafted and they stayed in the draft process anyway.
After thinking about it there is no Number Two! I’m still fired up about Number One! I’ll holler at you about Number Two in another joint. Stop me when I start lyin’!
Playas Thesaurus:
1) Dun: noun – the person in question, dude, guy, etc. It’s whoever I’m talkin’ about and its non-gender specific.
2) Put it where the goats can get it: verb phrase – to make it as elementary as possible. To put it at ground level so everyone can understand it.
3) Ole boy: noun – the person that I’m currently talkin’ about.
The G is excluded from the endings of all words because the G is near and dear to my heart because I’m from “The G” which is Gary, Indiana. So I only use the G when I’m talkin’ about “The G!”
The caption under the photo isn’t real but its real talk!