Wouldn't that be the most apt description of the NCAA at this point. It seems like that you just need to burn this to the ground and start all over. Reforming, changing or further empowering it at this point seems far more difficult then just starting over.
I heard a local college coach on the radio yesterday and he said that, "not only are they ineffective, but they don't even understand the issues well". He said, "they continually create rules that make it more difficult to fight these problems... things like the rule that coaches only have two hours a week to work with players(out of season, during the school year)." "That just pushes them to the agents/shoe reps and people who have contacts with people who can help them work out with top players/trainers and get better". "It's naive to think that basketball players at these levels are going to sit idly by and now you are pushing them away from the only people(coaches) that you have any control over".
He also railed against the "one and done" too. He suggested that they either need to eliminate it or make it at least two years. Currently you only have about a nine month pause, in theory, that they won't be connected to the outside influences.
I know that they don't actually have the ability or resources to control this stuff, but they really do exacerbate many of the existing problems and create new ones along the way.
I heard a local college coach on the radio yesterday and he said that, "not only are they ineffective, but they don't even understand the issues well". He said, "they continually create rules that make it more difficult to fight these problems... things like the rule that coaches only have two hours a week to work with players(out of season, during the school year)." "That just pushes them to the agents/shoe reps and people who have contacts with people who can help them work out with top players/trainers and get better". "It's naive to think that basketball players at these levels are going to sit idly by and now you are pushing them away from the only people(coaches) that you have any control over".
He also railed against the "one and done" too. He suggested that they either need to eliminate it or make it at least two years. Currently you only have about a nine month pause, in theory, that they won't be connected to the outside influences.
I know that they don't actually have the ability or resources to control this stuff, but they really do exacerbate many of the existing problems and create new ones along the way.
