Northwestern ruling sends clear message: NCAA, it's time to negotiate

[FuzzyLumpkins]

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaab-...151005969.html

I don't see what the big deal is with that paper. It's a simple one paragraph narrative that included several quotations. The quotations were done correctly but for once which would explain the minus. Its an introductory writing class likely remedial. They offer that within the curriculum at all schools.

That is unless you want to get upset because he used the grammatically correct "white people" and the like as subjects. I have taught reading/writing and as ty writing goes that is quite intelligible and uses higher level punctuation techniques correctly.

[boutons_deux]

Coaches Make $358,000 In Bonuses For Reaching NCAA Tournament Final Four

If you believe the NCAA, college athletics are predicated on the ideal of amateurism, and introducing money into the system would render it untenable economically and unappealing to the masses of fans who watch events like the NCAA Tournament every year. Thankfully for the four men who coach the teams that made the Final Four, those rules don’t apply to them. There may not be enough to pay the players, but there’s plenty to hand to coaches.

The four head coaches who will take their teams to Arlington, Texas for the Final Four next week will collect a total of $358,333 in bonuses for getting there, as the New York Daily News noted Monday. But there’s more: counting other bonuses the coaches have already received, the tally rises to more than $500,000. And adding in the bonuses for assistants and athletic directors, the total could stretch past $1 million by the end of the tournament (and that doesn’t count the bonuses coaches from other schools collected for making the tournament and advancing).

Kentucky leads the way. John Calipari, whose annual base salary is roughly $5.4 million, will pocket $175,000 for taking the Wildcats to their third Final Four in four years, a a nice addition to the $200,000 in bonuses he’s already made this postseason.

As Deadspin’s Tom Ley found, Kentucky guard Aaron Harrison’s game-winning shot over Michigan on Sunday night netted Calipari, Kentucky’s assistant coaches, and athletic director Mitch Barnhart a total of $330,000 in bonuses.

But he’s not alone. Florida’s Billy Donovan has already earned $187,500 in bonuses this postseason, including the $37,500 bonus he made for taking the Gators to the NCAA Tournament. That bonus increased to $75,000 when Florida made the Sweet 16 and $100,000 when the beat Dayton to reach the Final Four. If Donovan and Florida win the le, it’ll rise to $150,000. That’s on top of a $3.5 million base salary.

Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan earned $50,000 for making the Final Four; according to USA Today’s Steve Berkowitz, he had already collected $50,000 for making the tournament and $50,000 more for making the Sweet 16. Connecticut’s Kevin Ollie earned $33,333 for making the Final Four in just his second year at the helm. He’s now made $100,000 in bonuses this postseason.

Calipari, though, could be the biggest winner. If Kentucky wins its ninth le on Monday night, the fifth-year coach will earn an additional $375,000 bonus.

http://thinkprogress.org/sports/2014...nt-final-four/

"Glory Road", indeed!

[TSA]

As a collegiate athlete I got to see first hand what some of these classes were like. I had some where I simply showed up and the teacher marked me present and I could leave, some would even just mark all the athletes present regardless if they showed up or not. Now I was only playing collegiate golf so I wasn't catered too like the athletes in the bigger programs but still, it's a joke.

I don't see what the big deal is with that paper. It's a simple one paragraph narrative that included several quotations. The quotations were done correctly but for once which would explain the minus. Its an introductory writing class likely remedial. They offer that within the curriculum at all schools.

That is unless you want to get upset because he used the grammatically correct "white people" and the like as subjects. I have taught reading/writing and as ty writing goes that is quite intelligible and uses higher level punctuation techniques correctly.

"However, it is worth noting that the paper noted above is actually plagiarized almost word-for-word from the very first page of Parks' own autobiography. The fact that the student in question did not receive a failing grade in the class, as stipulated under UNC's honor code, is another mark against the school, regardless of Willingham's motives."

http://www.amazon.com/Rosa-Parks-My-...der_0141301201

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

As a collegiate athlete I got to see first hand what some of these classes were like. I had some where I simply showed up and the teacher marked me present and I could leave, some would even just mark all the athletes present regardless if they showed up or not. Now I was only playing collegiate golf so I wasn't catered too like the athletes in the bigger programs but still, it's a joke.

This is only proof the "student" part is a joke.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

As a collegiate athlete I got to see first hand what some of these classes were like. I had some where I simply showed up and the teacher marked me present and I could leave, some would even just mark all the athletes present regardless if they showed up or not. Now I was only playing collegiate golf so I wasn't catered too like the athletes in the bigger programs but still, it's a joke.



"However, it is worth noting that the paper noted above is actually plagiarized almost word-for-word from the very first page of Parks' own autobiography. The fact that the student in question did not receive a failing grade in the class, as stipulated under UNC's honor code, is another mark against the school, regardless of Willingham's motives."

http://www.amazon.com/Rosa-Parks-My-...der_0141301201

If it was plagiarized and the teacher didn't notice then it is what it is.

That being said you needing remedial classes does explain many things.

[TSA]

If it was plagiarized and the teacher didn't notice then it is what it is.

That being said you needing remedial classes does explain many things.

Unfortunately for me the only classes I got to do that in were some electives. I had friends playing football the got their degrees with 1/3 of the amount of effort the rest of us did. Were you in any athletics in college? Same experience for you?

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Unfortunately for me the only classes I got to do that in were some electives. I had friends playing football the got their degrees with 1/3 of the amount of effort the rest of us did. Were you in any athletics in college? Same experience for you?

A degree in black history or what? I didn't play but I knew athletes from several sports. I helped a lot of people in school. I helped this one girl and she gave me a Thanksgiving picture book she had to write a report on. Nice girl who tried hard. She was never given any good schooling and her vernacular made it such that she could not write how she talked.

When you have someone like that you not only have to teach them but you have to get them to interpret what they already know into that. The paragraph in the OP was a string of 6 or so coherent sentences using quotations. It was about half of what I had my girl turn in.

I get the idea that athletics allows in some very hard working and underprivileged kids into college. They learn remedial bull . Hopefully by the end they can write a couple of papers and do some cheesey project which is what is required for most liberal arts degrees.

Your friends were not required to take those courses. If they did because they were easy then whatever but some kids need that and it is not easy for them.

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U.S. Labor Department Calls NFL Cheerleaders 'Seasonal Amusement' -- Says They Don't Deserve Minimum Wage


http://www.alternet.org/economy/us-l...age=1#bookmark

I figure most of them make incomes, cash!, lying on their backs, year round.

[Clipper Nation]

Tbh, the debate shouldn't be about paying players, it should be about which fairer system will be put in place when college sports as we know it inevitably collapses from paying players....