Club Trillion

I was not aware that the last man on the bench at Ohio State had a blog. So, my knowledge of said blog was lacking. Thus, I had to spend some time reading through it.

Here are my thoughts. First, I thought it was reasonably adequate. Not laugh out loud, fall of your chair funny - but consistently humourous. The section that I read appeared to be about NCAA compliance. I found his insight to be consistent with my own opinions on compliance and NCAA rules. I think that we have over-regulated college athletics.

Three things should be paramount. Kids get an education. Sports remain sacrosanct - no gambling, no illegal inducement, etc. Time is left for kids to be college students - and all that entails. Thus, I think giving kids a slight payment based on athletics revenues, or jersey sales, or something of the sort - is perfectly justified. However, like anything, the devil is in the details. My biggest anger at life is the way that our society, the NCAA, even schools have basically shifted ethical responsibility to compliance. We did everything by the rules, so if you managed to do bad things its not our fault. How bout we stop trying to regulate morality and instead create frameworks and push for stronger, better behavior. For example, if a kid on your team's mother dies and he can't afford the plane ticket, the coach should be able to pay for that kid to get home for the funeral. Coaches make a lot of money and they care deeply about their players; this is not an entitlement or inducement, this is simply good social policy. But, compliance and rules are written that say that's illegal. That's just poor regulation and then standing behind the letter of the law because you know the spirit of the law is completely against you.