TCU beat the unranked University of Kansas Jayhawks 34-30 on Saturday. The Horned Frogs did not look like the #4 team in the country as they had to come from behind from a 13-10 deficit at halftime to narrowly beat the 3-7 Jayhawks.
Trevone Boykin was 26 for 36 passing for 330 yards and a TD with 1 INT. Michael Cummings threw 19 completions in 37 attempts for 332 yards and 2 TDs with 1 INT for Kansas.
Aaron Green carried the ball 19 times for TCU with 2 touchdowns and Cameron Echols-Luper returned a punt 69 yards for a touchdown and the difference in this game.
Corey Avery had a rushing touchdown for the 3-7 Jayhawks.
Read the ESPN box score and recap here.
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Showing posts with label NCAA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NCAA. Show all posts
Saturday, November 15, 2014
Monday, October 27, 2014
Non Profit Foundation Buys Saban's House
I want to get to the heart of the matter here but I have to make a few points clear. First, I am not anti-SEC or anti-Alabama nor am I a Saban hater. I agree with the foundation that Saban may be the best coach in football today. Secondly I don't care how much Universities pay their coaches.
Having stated these points I have some things to say about this ESPN article, written by Alex Scarborough.
First, Nick Saban is paid 7 million dollars a year to coach the University of Alabama's football team. He has done a very good job of this and should be compensated well.
Secondly, the Crimson Tide Foundation bought Saban's 3.1 million dollar home in January of 2013 and continues to pay the yearly property taxes on the home. This is $200,000 more than Saban paid for it. If I remember, this was about the time the rumors of the University of Texas looking to Saban for their next head coach surfaced.
Thirdly, the NCAA says that a coach's compensation is allowed to come from a University foundation.
Finally, the foundation likes to point out that the University of Alabama owned Bear Bryants home so everything is okay. Scott Phelps, assistant secretary of the foundation had this to say, "We want to keep him happy. We think he is the best coach in America."
My point in saying all of this is that Todd Gurley, running back at the University of Georgia, has been suspended for allegedly accepting $400 dollars for his autograph on items a collector will make back at least a hundred fold and Jameis Winston is being investigated for the same NCAA "crime".
The head coach and his staff, in all sports, should be held to some higher standard when it comes to receiving compensation from non profit entities.
When the NCAA has to change rules to allow universities to feed their athletes more because they go hungry (re: statements by UConn's Shabazz Napier...I sometimes go to bed starving because I can't afford food), they should change rules that say University foundations can compensate coaches.
The time has come for the NCAA to step up to the plate and admit that student-athletes should be compensated for their efforts that bring millions of dollars to universities and their coaches.
Having stated these points I have some things to say about this ESPN article, written by Alex Scarborough.
First, Nick Saban is paid 7 million dollars a year to coach the University of Alabama's football team. He has done a very good job of this and should be compensated well.
Secondly, the Crimson Tide Foundation bought Saban's 3.1 million dollar home in January of 2013 and continues to pay the yearly property taxes on the home. This is $200,000 more than Saban paid for it. If I remember, this was about the time the rumors of the University of Texas looking to Saban for their next head coach surfaced.
Thirdly, the NCAA says that a coach's compensation is allowed to come from a University foundation.
Finally, the foundation likes to point out that the University of Alabama owned Bear Bryants home so everything is okay. Scott Phelps, assistant secretary of the foundation had this to say, "We want to keep him happy. We think he is the best coach in America."
My point in saying all of this is that Todd Gurley, running back at the University of Georgia, has been suspended for allegedly accepting $400 dollars for his autograph on items a collector will make back at least a hundred fold and Jameis Winston is being investigated for the same NCAA "crime".
The head coach and his staff, in all sports, should be held to some higher standard when it comes to receiving compensation from non profit entities.
When the NCAA has to change rules to allow universities to feed their athletes more because they go hungry (re: statements by UConn's Shabazz Napier...I sometimes go to bed starving because I can't afford food), they should change rules that say University foundations can compensate coaches.
The time has come for the NCAA to step up to the plate and admit that student-athletes should be compensated for their efforts that bring millions of dollars to universities and their coaches.
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
UNC Underfire for "Sham" Courses Taken by Athletes
The University of North Carolina has discovered in an investigation the university commissioned that over an 18 year period, athletes were steered toward so called sham courses to maintain their GPA and thus maintain their athletic eligibility.
This is from the ESPN story. "The report, released Wednesday, says academic advisers in North Carolina's athletic department colluded with a manager in the African and Afro-American Studies department for student-athletes to take classes to boost their GPAs and keep them eligible in their respective sports."
This is from the ESPN story. "The report, released Wednesday, says academic advisers in North Carolina's athletic department colluded with a manager in the African and Afro-American Studies department for student-athletes to take classes to boost their GPAs and keep them eligible in their respective sports."
Read the full investigative story here.
Saturday, October 18, 2014
Syracuse faces NCAA Committee On Infractions
Dana O'Neil, writing for ESPN has this story on Syracuse University facing the NCAA's Committee on Infractions for at least 10 basketball players who were allowed to play despite failing to meet the school's drug policy standards.
Friday, October 10, 2014
NCAA Players Need to be Paid to Play an Editorial
This week, Todd Gurley, a Junior running back and possible Heisman trophy winner in 2014, of the Georgia Bulldogs was suspended from the football team and is under investigation by the NCAA for selling his autograph. Gurley faces the real possibility that he will not play the remainder of the year for Georgia and could lose his scholarship.
The University of Georgia, as is required by NCAA rules, suspended Gurley when they became aware of the allegations.
Gurley is accused of being paid $400 to sign 80 items for Bryan Allen an Atlanta sports memorabilia dealer, on campus, in early spring. Doing the math, that works out to $5 per item. Supposedly there are photos and video of the signings, although none have surfaced yet.
Rules are rules and Gurley should have known better, if what is alledged is true, but this problem did not start with Todd Gurley nor will this be the end of it.
It is time that the NCAA realizes that athletes at big time universities are treated like chattel.
The arguments that the schools, and the NCAA, use to justify this indentured servitude are simple. They feel that a 4 year scholarship to a university, worth in the neighborhood of $200,000, over 4 years is sufficient payment for services. The second argument is that, starting this year, the athlete can earn up to $2,000 per academic year at employment on or off campus not associated with the athletic department. A final argument is that schools can't afford to pay their athletes.
To counter those arguments I would argue that sports scholarships are not guaranteed, by most universities, for 4 years but are on a yearly basis and can be revoked for many reasons both academic and non-academic. There are some universities that have started to guarantee those scholarships but not nearly enough. Given that the academic year, in most cases, runs from September through May, a 9 month period, that $2,000 earned works out to $222 a month.
These are the arguments put forth by the colleges/universities and the NCAA as to why they can't afford any changes to the current rules and regulations put forth by the NCAA and approved by the Deans of member colleges/universities.
Here are the reasons I have for a change in idea at the NCAA level.
Schools make millions of dollars off of these athletes. Here is a list of ways in which the schools and the NCAA make that money:
1. Ticket sales to athletic events
2. Concessions and Parking at those events
3. Visiting team remuneration packages (The University of Idaho was to be paid $900,000 dolllars for their trip to play the University of Florida)
4. Conference TV money (ESPN paid the SEC 2.25 billion dollars to broadcast their games through the 2026-2027 seasons. That's $150,000,000 per year for the SEC which works out to $10,700,000 per year/per school)
5. Local TV/Radio Money (considerably less than TV money, but income none the less)
6. Stadium advertising money
7. Bowl game revenue (if selected for bowl games, all revenue generated by teams in the conferenece is divided among all conference teams)
8. Jersey and sports memorabilia sales (University and the NCAA split this revenue)
9. Alumni giving to sports departments
10. Video game revenue (note lawsuits by former players over lost revenue)
11. Nike Sponsorship
Students who receive non sports scholarships are not limited as to the amount of time they can spend at employment. They can earn as much as they need to in order to pay for incidentals while attending college.
What Todd Gurley did was against the NCAA rules. He knew, or should have known, that what he was doing was against those rules. His suspension by the University of Georgia was done in accordance with those same rules governing universities and self reporting.
But Georgia will play football this weekend. They will travel to Columbia, Missouri to take on the Tigers in a game with SEC West Division implications. Todd Gurley will remain in Georgia while the University of Georgia and the NCAA decide his fate.
The NCAA must rethink it's rules on paying players to play. I remember when Title IX was going to absolutely ruin college sports. Has that happened? No. The universities were required to rethink their positions and make college athletics fair to all. Coming up with a fair way to pay players so that they don't feel the need to break the rules will not ruin college sports either.
There are now allegations (10/13/14) that 2014 Heisnan Trophy winner Jameis Winston has had over 100 signatures authenticated by the same firm that authenticated those signatures of Todd Gurley. When asked, Florida State Head Coach, Jimbo Fisher had this to say, "I asked Jameis if he took money for signing those autographs...he told me no."
There you have it folks, in the SEC the player is suspended right away. In the ACC, and the #2 Seminoles, the player said he didn't get any money so...nothing to see here...move along.
The University of Georgia, as is required by NCAA rules, suspended Gurley when they became aware of the allegations.
Gurley is accused of being paid $400 to sign 80 items for Bryan Allen an Atlanta sports memorabilia dealer, on campus, in early spring. Doing the math, that works out to $5 per item. Supposedly there are photos and video of the signings, although none have surfaced yet.
Rules are rules and Gurley should have known better, if what is alledged is true, but this problem did not start with Todd Gurley nor will this be the end of it.
It is time that the NCAA realizes that athletes at big time universities are treated like chattel.
The arguments that the schools, and the NCAA, use to justify this indentured servitude are simple. They feel that a 4 year scholarship to a university, worth in the neighborhood of $200,000, over 4 years is sufficient payment for services. The second argument is that, starting this year, the athlete can earn up to $2,000 per academic year at employment on or off campus not associated with the athletic department. A final argument is that schools can't afford to pay their athletes.
To counter those arguments I would argue that sports scholarships are not guaranteed, by most universities, for 4 years but are on a yearly basis and can be revoked for many reasons both academic and non-academic. There are some universities that have started to guarantee those scholarships but not nearly enough. Given that the academic year, in most cases, runs from September through May, a 9 month period, that $2,000 earned works out to $222 a month.
These are the arguments put forth by the colleges/universities and the NCAA as to why they can't afford any changes to the current rules and regulations put forth by the NCAA and approved by the Deans of member colleges/universities.
Here are the reasons I have for a change in idea at the NCAA level.
Schools make millions of dollars off of these athletes. Here is a list of ways in which the schools and the NCAA make that money:
1. Ticket sales to athletic events
2. Concessions and Parking at those events
3. Visiting team remuneration packages (The University of Idaho was to be paid $900,000 dolllars for their trip to play the University of Florida)
4. Conference TV money (ESPN paid the SEC 2.25 billion dollars to broadcast their games through the 2026-2027 seasons. That's $150,000,000 per year for the SEC which works out to $10,700,000 per year/per school)
5. Local TV/Radio Money (considerably less than TV money, but income none the less)
6. Stadium advertising money
7. Bowl game revenue (if selected for bowl games, all revenue generated by teams in the conferenece is divided among all conference teams)
8. Jersey and sports memorabilia sales (University and the NCAA split this revenue)
9. Alumni giving to sports departments
10. Video game revenue (note lawsuits by former players over lost revenue)
11. Nike Sponsorship
Students who receive non sports scholarships are not limited as to the amount of time they can spend at employment. They can earn as much as they need to in order to pay for incidentals while attending college.
What Todd Gurley did was against the NCAA rules. He knew, or should have known, that what he was doing was against those rules. His suspension by the University of Georgia was done in accordance with those same rules governing universities and self reporting.
But Georgia will play football this weekend. They will travel to Columbia, Missouri to take on the Tigers in a game with SEC West Division implications. Todd Gurley will remain in Georgia while the University of Georgia and the NCAA decide his fate.
The NCAA must rethink it's rules on paying players to play. I remember when Title IX was going to absolutely ruin college sports. Has that happened? No. The universities were required to rethink their positions and make college athletics fair to all. Coming up with a fair way to pay players so that they don't feel the need to break the rules will not ruin college sports either.
There are now allegations (10/13/14) that 2014 Heisnan Trophy winner Jameis Winston has had over 100 signatures authenticated by the same firm that authenticated those signatures of Todd Gurley. When asked, Florida State Head Coach, Jimbo Fisher had this to say, "I asked Jameis if he took money for signing those autographs...he told me no."
There you have it folks, in the SEC the player is suspended right away. In the ACC, and the #2 Seminoles, the player said he didn't get any money so...nothing to see here...move along.
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