NCAA messed up

[MADHAT1]

Myles Brand started something that might have made College Basketball a little less dirty where recruiting is concerned .
Mark Emmert, didn’t think much of the program and let it fade away.
“When all this scandal stuff came out, I just sat there initially and was like, ‘There was a program in place that could have helped the situation,'” Pryor said. “I was like, ‘You already had your answer, but y’all did away with it.'”

How the NCAA discarded a program that could have helped address college basketball's problems
From 2002 to 2012, Pryor was one of the pillars of what some consider to be the most innovative program the NCAA ever created to help elite male basketball prospects navigate the pitfalls of the college recruiting process. Participants in the First Team Program entered as high school freshmen and received year-round education and mentoring the next four years, helping them improve their study habits, understand NCAA eligibility rules and steer clear of exploitation and extra benefits.

https://sports.yahoo.com/ncaa-disca...s-college-basketballs-problems-173122939.html

 

[rubaseball78]

Myles Brand started something that might have made College Basketball a little less dirty where recruiting is concerned .
Mark Emmert, didn’t think much of the program and let it fade away.
“When all this scandal stuff came out, I just sat there initially and was like, ‘There was a program in place that could have helped the situation,'” Pryor said. “I was like, ‘You already had your answer, but y’all did away with it.'”

How the NCAA discarded a program that could have helped address college basketball's problems
From 2002 to 2012, Pryor was one of the pillars of what some consider to be the most innovative program the NCAA ever created to help elite male basketball prospects navigate the pitfalls of the college recruiting process. Participants in the First Team Program entered as high school freshmen and received year-round education and mentoring the next four years, helping them improve their study habits, understand NCAA eligibility rules and steer clear of exploitation and extra benefits.

https://sports.yahoo.com/ncaa-disca...s-college-basketballs-problems-173122939.html

While I agree this is a benefit to the athletes to help them navigate the system, I don't see how it prevents the payment scandals that broke.

 

[Mr_Twister]

How have the NCAA activities missed the probing eyes of 60 Minutes and some of the other investigative TV shows? Would be absolute cherry picking. The NCAA is feckless.

 

[lloyde dobler]

CBS, which pays billions to televise the NCAA tournament, investigating the NCAA?

 

[MADHAT1]

point is what might have helped keep recruiting a little cleaner wasn't worth trying as far as Emmert was concerned .
Maybe , in time, program could have been expanded in order to help weed out the dirt surrounding college basketball recruiting and cover kids in AAU programs
that the AAU programs influence where they go

 

[TDIrish27]

Yeah and maybe it wouldn't .

My experience has been that cheaters cheat------kids take money.

It's what you do when you don't have any.

The pay scale in the coaching profession is so out of whack that who can blame them ?

 

[Mr_Twister]

Of course not limited to those "who don't have any". Ask the Jones and Guarantano families.