The Blue Board

I admit, I don't know a lot of information about over-signing outside of the SEC. I do think it is a major competitive advantage and I think it should be seen as a major problem. I would love to know if these issues happen at the school I cheer for. I am a Wisconsin fan. Anyone know if I'm a hypocrite? Or am I safe on the soapbox?

You can be on the soapbox. The Big Ten does have strict oversigning rules for all sports.

The oversigning rules for baseball make no sense however and actually prevent rosters from being filled and helping kids obtain an education. But no one is crusading against that yet.

Then lets cast a wider net. Is it happening in the Big Ten? Rest of the auto qualifiers? Who outside of every SEC school, except Vanderbilt (please correct me if I am wrong), is benefiting from "bending" the rules in this manner.

Wouldn't have to do this if schools didn't cut these kids like they are on a pro football team.

Under performing kids should be kept on scholarship. Lazy is tough to justify. If a kid attends all mandatory events and goes through the motions how do you decide you can just cut them? Why hasn't the coach motivated them?

In some cases it seems that you don't have to motivate them. Just remove them from the program and recruit another player. Why motivate a kid, as talented as he may be, when you can easily take a chance on another talented, and potentially unmotivated, prospect. The next one could be a keeper. And the only one to suffer, in the coaches perspective, is the player who didn't try hard enough. - Its his fault he didn't take advantage of an opportunity, right?

Except nobody knows whether kids who suddenly disappear from SEC, and other, depth charts didn't try or simply weren't good enough for the coach at the time.

Meanwhile other schools cant take these chances and "have" to live with their mistakes. One of my favorite Bret Bielema quotes is "you recruit your own problems". To me at least, that only applies outside of those who over-sign.

In the long run this is why I don't give two sh*ts whether or not Wisconsin wins a national championship. Its also why every time the crowd chants "SEC, SEC, SEC" at the end of the national championship game all I hear is "WE CHEAT BEST, WE CHEAT BEST".

Nevermind, done whining for the day.

Missing my point. There should be no differenced in any scholarship. If an athletic scholarship is to be for 4 years, so should the academic and organizational scholarship. If they are not going to match up I am not for the switch. That is getting the priorities of a University all out of wack.

Most public Universities at the moment are required to offer a certain amount of scholarships to people of all demographics and certain economic situations to maintain government funding. If these are all to be 4 year dedals. Either the amount of kids with these oppurtunities will lower or there is going to be more funding needed to fulfill these positions. Since the guidelines, IMO need to be the same across the borad for ALL scholarships sinced athletic accomplishments has nothing to with whether a kid is allowed to stay on scholarship, there shouldn't be a minimum GPA requirement to maintain an academic scholarship. I do know at Texas (just where I saw the info), 52% of all students on acadedmic scholarships lose their funding at some point during their academic career. 7% "flunk out" but the rest just didn't maintain the GPA requirements of a 3.0 or a 3.25 or whatever the bar is set at. That is a lot of extra funding or less people with a chance to go to that University. If things aren't this way I wouldn't think that would be fair and the priorities of our Universities would truly be backwards, IMO. I am all for the 4 year scholarship if it is equal, but don't think it won't cost or that you can just think in the terms of football.

You can really tell the kids who refuse to buy in.

USC recently had several players transfer. At practices three of these guys always stood apart from the rest of the team. The coaches tried to get them to buy into the program but they were more interested in their own personal achievements.

and the ganja.

See, I'm still not sure what they mean by 4 years. I had an academic nearly-full-ride scholarship at Bama that was offered for a maximum of 4 years. I had to maintain a GPA of a 3.5. If I had a semester below that I was put on probation. If I were to have consecutive probationary semesters I would lose my scholarship. Is that similar to what the football players will be doing?

I believe scholly's should be 1 year deals. You have to earn your way each year.

You must be an Indian. What Cherokkee, Navaho, Sioux, Creek??

I dont blame the Red Man for wanting to kill Whitey. If those Mayans knew gun powder existed, they could have alerted thier northern brethren that Whitey was on the way.

I guess itsI alright if you burn up a few of those crackers. But i would strongly reccomend you stop before deciding to drop a 9 on me. Hey, and , next time, don't cry up on your horse when some Casper tosses a cigarette out his sports car.

Peace

I'm sorry my newly found Red man Hombre, Please make no mistake with my inference. I was giving you my blessing to wax a few crackers. I was not threatening your existence in this Red land. I merely suggested you stop before popping my ass.

Afterall, it is my right to give you my blessing, You see, I am a Bama fan, and everybody knows Bama fans rulle the world.

Peace be upon you, Red Man