On Sat, 4 Dec 1993, Bri Farenell wrote:
 
> Yet another genius move by the NC$$. They tell one thing to two
> schools and another thing to Maine. Then, the NC$$ punishes Maine for
> having the stupidity to listen to them.
 
Was Maine unaware of what the MC$$ had said about Tory previously?  Were
they cicrumspect about the apparent change of heart?
 
> How can Maine possibly be punished by the NC$$ for listening to the
> NC$$? It makes no sense, as does most of the stuff regarding the
> NC$$. If I were a Maine fan, I'd be incensed. I'm not and I'm still
> pretty pissed off.
>
> In football news, Alabama cornerback Antonio Langham was declared
> ineligible for the rest of the season for accepting money from
> an agent during the summer. It would seem logical, bearing in
> mind the Ingraham decision, that Alabama forfeit all of their
> games this year in which Langham played (which is all of them).
> Knowing the NC$$'s fairness, Alabama will not get penalized, I
> predict, for one reason that probably does not need stating:
> the NC$$ lets football and basketball do whatever they want but
> will punish the most minute violation in any other non-money sport.
> Now do you realize why we use the acronym NC$$?
>
I'll agree that the NC$$ treats other, money sports better than they do
hockey.  But it would seem the Alabama situation is different in kind
from Tory's or Ingraham's.  The school is responsible at least in part
for both of those situations, because they are in charge of maintaining
the enforcement of minimum academic standards-- whether that means
informing Cal that he's a credit or too short or making sure someone's
GPA is high enough to play.  A player taking off on his own, during the
summer, taking money from agents, doesn't seem to be within the scope of
the school's responsibility unless they were involved or aware of it.
The school can't be responsible for policing the actions of their
athletes on a 24 hour, round the clock basis.
 
 
David M. Josselyn
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