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I know we talked about this in a couple other threads....(see the thread on the Manual-Lanphier game being moved)
BUT based on an NCAA ruling that penalized Lute Olson at Arizona for hosting high school games on campus as a recruiting ploy...
some have interpreted the NEW NCAA rule to prohibit using your own campus and home floor to host games as a recruiting tool...
...as also prohibiting all high school games that are held at your home venue...
Thus the University of Illinois' Shootout at the Hall - held in Champaign's Assembly Hall, and even the River City Shootout - this year called Riverfront Roundball -
have to be either cancelled or moved elsewhere because Bradley's home floor is at the Civic Center and somehow someone must think this is an unfair advantage for BU and has to be reigned in!!
BUT - here's where this argument is going to have many serious problems...
-1st - in many smaller cities with colleges, the college basketball floor may be the only good place to hold high school games, and if it isn't allowed, then games will have to be moved to horribly inconvenient places.
-also if this holds true for basketball, then what happens when we get to the HIGH SCHOOL soccer season, swim meets, or even golf tournies???
Bradley's home soccer field has been used by many local high schools - and lots & lots of colleges let high schools use their swimming pool for meets and tournies because so many smaller high schools simply don't have one.
AND - the college's own HOME GOLF COURSE might be the only one in town!!!
Where are high schools gonna play if they can't play there?? This rule is going to get ridiculous...
-Then - they're obviously going to have to make exceptions for Regionals, sectionals, and the STATE TOURNEY because every kid that ever plays in IHSA's March Madness in Peoria in March is playing on a floor that says BRADLEY UNIVERSITY on it...so is that going to be a HUGE violation???
BUT based on an NCAA ruling that penalized Lute Olson at Arizona for hosting high school games on campus as a recruiting ploy...
some have interpreted the NEW NCAA rule to prohibit using your own campus and home floor to host games as a recruiting tool...
...as also prohibiting all high school games that are held at your home venue...
Thus the University of Illinois' Shootout at the Hall - held in Champaign's Assembly Hall, and even the River City Shootout - this year called Riverfront Roundball -
have to be either cancelled or moved elsewhere because Bradley's home floor is at the Civic Center and somehow someone must think this is an unfair advantage for BU and has to be reigned in!!
BUT - here's where this argument is going to have many serious problems...
-1st - in many smaller cities with colleges, the college basketball floor may be the only good place to hold high school games, and if it isn't allowed, then games will have to be moved to horribly inconvenient places.
-also if this holds true for basketball, then what happens when we get to the HIGH SCHOOL soccer season, swim meets, or even golf tournies???
Bradley's home soccer field has been used by many local high schools - and lots & lots of colleges let high schools use their swimming pool for meets and tournies because so many smaller high schools simply don't have one.
AND - the college's own HOME GOLF COURSE might be the only one in town!!!
Where are high schools gonna play if they can't play there?? This rule is going to get ridiculous...
-Then - they're obviously going to have to make exceptions for Regionals, sectionals, and the STATE TOURNEY because every kid that ever plays in IHSA's March Madness in Peoria in March is playing on a floor that says BRADLEY UNIVERSITY on it...so is that going to be a HUGE violation???
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