More NCAA idiocy - Oakland U involved

So he started taking online college courses while he was still serving. He took two classes and got a B in both. He was discharged from the Army this past April. He enrolled at Oakland in June. He took two summer classes. He got an A in one and a B in the other. He's now on Oakland's student-athlete advisory committee. He's been mentoring and even tutoring younger athletes.
And the NCAA just ruled him ineligible.
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Isaiah Brock graduated in 2011 from Forest Park High in Baltimore, which is the same school from which the 39th Vice President of the United States, Spiro Agnew, graduated many years earlier. Film director Barry Levinson, too. But Forest Park has more recently become less of a launching pad for greatness. According to U.S. News and World Report, only 70 percent of its students graduate, and just 6 percent meet the standard of "college readiness." In other words, even if you're a good student relative to your surroundings, odds are you won't have the proper credentials to meet NCAA freshman eligibility requirements once you graduate from Forest Park.
Such was the case for Isaiah Brock.
"They weren't focused on college preparedness as a high school," said Oakland athletic director Jeff Konya. "So Isaiah was technically a non-qualifier."

Robert J Sakimano wrote:granting him eligibility simply because he was in the Army is overly arbitrary and unfair to potential students in similar situations who may not have served in the military. I suspect that Oakland University (and other institutions), along with the NCAA, have policies in place where waivers can be granted based on a number of post-high school factors, regardless of the individuals circumstance, military, peace corps, or otherwise.

DWags wrote:Why do all the colleges even allow the NCAA to govern them?  The collective universities are the sole purpose that the NCAA exists and those people make money.  If we're allowing 6th year players, if we want to accept people into our university who have scored a 17 on the ACT or an 850 on the SAT, why do we even have to clear them through the clearinghouse?   We don't give a rats ass if they graduate.  The kids playing are basically professional.  If they do qualify as regular students and if they do get an education, bonus for them.  

Simple rule.  Make it that you have four years to play college sports.  That's it.  We don't care about your grades, your academic progress or lack there of.  Here are your four years, no redshirt, no 6th year exemption no graduate in three or four and get a fifth year at another place.  Four.  Here's a seperate dorm.  If you want to join the general population and get an education, we'll let you do that, and god bless.  If not, we only want you here to win football games and try to make the NFL.

Fuck it, lets call it like it is.

BleacherSwill wrote:

DWags wrote:Why do all the colleges even allow the NCAA to govern them?  The collective universities are the sole purpose that the NCAA exists and those people make money.  If we're allowing 6th year players, if we want to accept people into our university who have scored a 17 on the ACT or an 850 on the SAT, why do we even have to clear them through the clearinghouse?   We don't give a rats ass if they graduate.  The kids playing are basically professional.  If they do qualify as regular students and if they do get an education, bonus for them.  

Simple rule.  Make it that you have four years to play college sports.  That's it.  We don't care about your grades, your academic progress or lack there of.  Here are your four years, no redshirt, no 6th year exemption no graduate in three or four and get a fifth year at another place.  Four.  Here's a seperate dorm.  If you want to join the general population and get an education, we'll let you do that, and god bless.  If not, we only want you here to win football games and try to make the NFL.

Fuck it, lets call it like it is.

Except that is not "like it is".   I won't look up the statistics but it is well know very few scholarships players make a professional paycheck.  So to begin with your premise that student athletes are there to make it to the NFL is just bullshith.  You should start over with a more factual approach to this issue.