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You decide....see if you think the NCAA's penalties are fair...
Just this past week, the NCAA hammered a Division III school, Chatham, for the following violations...
"modest discounts in tuition to some athletes that were 'distinguishable from the general pattern of all financial aid for the general student body."
There were no illegal phone calls, no illegal recruiting, no cash handed to agents, to ineligible athletes allowed to play....all they did was they instituted a program to discount tuition for international students, specifically Canadian kids, in order to satify a desired level of "diversity...and the NCAA says those tuition discounts went a little more to athletes than to non-athletes.
BTW -- just about the ONLY kids from Canada that they can get to come to Chatham are hockey players (women & men) -
so it turns out that a LOT of them make the Chatham team, resulting in the disproportion cited.........
Here was their penalty...
* Public reprimand and censure.
* Two years of probation from July 30, 2010, through July 29, 2012
* A postseason ban, effective immediately, for any teams whose rosters include one or more student-athletes receiving the Canadian student discount whose performance affects playoff eligibility seeding.
*During this period of probation, the institution shall:
a.
Continue to develop and implement a comprehensive educational program
on NCAA legislation to instruct the coaches, the faculty athletics
representative, all athletics department personnel and all institutional staff
members with responsibility for the certification of student-athletes for
admission, retention, financial aid or competition;
b.
Submit a preliminary report to the office of the Committees on Infractions
by September 15, 2010, setting forth a schedule for establishing this
compliance and educational program; and
c.
File with the office of the Committees on Infractions annual compliance
reports indicating the progress made with this program by July 15 of each
year during the probationary period. Particular emphasis should be placed
on ensuring that financial aid is awarded in a manner consistent with
NCAA regulations. The reports must also include documentation of the
institution's compliance with the penalties adopted and imposed by the
committee.
They can't be docked scholarships or recruiting days, since they don't recruit in the same sense as D-I and they don't give athletic scholarships.
BUT they still get numerous different teams slammed with probation and post-season ban!!!
This penalty is nearly as strong as what was just given USC, and actually harder than what Indiana, Georgia, or Kansas got for their MAJOR violations!!! None of them got a post-season ban at all!!
If a D-III team that commits violations this minor gets slammed as hard as the big guys with horrid, intentional cheating and lying, then you be the judge....who really owns the NCAA?
Just this past week, the NCAA hammered a Division III school, Chatham, for the following violations...
"modest discounts in tuition to some athletes that were 'distinguishable from the general pattern of all financial aid for the general student body."
There were no illegal phone calls, no illegal recruiting, no cash handed to agents, to ineligible athletes allowed to play....all they did was they instituted a program to discount tuition for international students, specifically Canadian kids, in order to satify a desired level of "diversity...and the NCAA says those tuition discounts went a little more to athletes than to non-athletes.
BTW -- just about the ONLY kids from Canada that they can get to come to Chatham are hockey players (women & men) -
so it turns out that a LOT of them make the Chatham team, resulting in the disproportion cited.........
Here was their penalty...
* Public reprimand and censure.
* Two years of probation from July 30, 2010, through July 29, 2012
* A postseason ban, effective immediately, for any teams whose rosters include one or more student-athletes receiving the Canadian student discount whose performance affects playoff eligibility seeding.
*During this period of probation, the institution shall:
a.
Continue to develop and implement a comprehensive educational program
on NCAA legislation to instruct the coaches, the faculty athletics
representative, all athletics department personnel and all institutional staff
members with responsibility for the certification of student-athletes for
admission, retention, financial aid or competition;
b.
Submit a preliminary report to the office of the Committees on Infractions
by September 15, 2010, setting forth a schedule for establishing this
compliance and educational program; and
c.
File with the office of the Committees on Infractions annual compliance
reports indicating the progress made with this program by July 15 of each
year during the probationary period. Particular emphasis should be placed
on ensuring that financial aid is awarded in a manner consistent with
NCAA regulations. The reports must also include documentation of the
institution's compliance with the penalties adopted and imposed by the
committee.
They can't be docked scholarships or recruiting days, since they don't recruit in the same sense as D-I and they don't give athletic scholarships.
BUT they still get numerous different teams slammed with probation and post-season ban!!!
This penalty is nearly as strong as what was just given USC, and actually harder than what Indiana, Georgia, or Kansas got for their MAJOR violations!!! None of them got a post-season ban at all!!
If a D-III team that commits violations this minor gets slammed as hard as the big guys with horrid, intentional cheating and lying, then you be the judge....who really owns the NCAA?