Comments on: NCAA Investigator: Alabama Couldn’t Control Booster http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/ncaa_investigator_alabama_couldnt_control_booster/ Online Journal of Politics and Foreign Affairs Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:20:52 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: John Burgess http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/ncaa_investigator_alabama_couldnt_control_booster/comment-page-1/#comment-50017 John Burgess Mon, 27 Jun 2005 00:19:04 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/11089#comment-50017 How about punishing the "boostee", by making him/her ineligible for competitive sports--across the entire university sports universe--if someone (associated with a school or not) illegally promotes him/her? This, of course, would be in addition to punishing the illegal booster. This would avoid collateral damage to innocents who happened to be at the same school. If "provisional status" were required due to legal battles about a specific decision, then it would be up to the receiving university to decide whether they wanted to take a chance in having that title they won--due to the presence of suspect boostee-rescinded after the facts, if prooved. How about punishing the "boostee", by making him/her ineligible for competitive sports--across the entire university sports universe--if someone (associated with a school or not) illegally promotes him/her? This, of course, would be in addition to punishing the illegal booster.

This would avoid collateral damage to innocents who happened to be at the same school.

If "provisional status" were required due to legal battles about a specific decision, then it would be up to the receiving university to decide whether they wanted to take a chance in having that title they won--due to the presence of suspect boostee-rescinded after the facts, if prooved.

]]> By: yetanotherjohn http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/ncaa_investigator_alabama_couldnt_control_booster/comment-page-1/#comment-50016 yetanotherjohn Mon, 27 Jun 2005 00:04:01 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/11089#comment-50016 Take this to the next level. You can argue that by punishing the school the booster wants to succeed, you provide an incentive for the booster to stop what they were doing. At least to the degree that the disincentive (large in the value system of the booster, including any fellow fan shunning him as the man who killed their program) is balanced against the chances of being caught (which we don't know since the number of cases like this that haven't been found out is inherently unknowable). But then go one level deeper. Say I am a wealthy booster of state U. I don't want state U to be sanctioned, but I wouldn't mind it if their main rivals at podunk U got sanctioned. So I spend some money through some cut outs, drop a dime and down comes podunk U's program. It's like money in politics. Try to dam up one river of money and two more streams of cash will appear. The answer isn't to ban, but to bring it into the open. Give up the fairy tale of student athletes and let them turn semi-pro. Let the universities have their team, just bring it above board. If a player also wants to get a college education, great. That can be a bonus perk they provide. Take this to the next level. You can argue that by punishing the school the booster wants to succeed, you provide an incentive for the booster to stop what they were doing. At least to the degree that the disincentive (large in the value system of the booster, including any fellow fan shunning him as the man who killed their program) is balanced against the chances of being caught (which we don't know since the number of cases like this that haven't been found out is inherently unknowable).

But then go one level deeper. Say I am a wealthy booster of state U. I don't want state U to be sanctioned, but I wouldn't mind it if their main rivals at podunk U got sanctioned. So I spend some money through some cut outs, drop a dime and down comes podunk U's program.

It's like money in politics. Try to dam up one river of money and two more streams of cash will appear. The answer isn't to ban, but to bring it into the open. Give up the fairy tale of student athletes and let them turn semi-pro. Let the universities have their team, just bring it above board. If a player also wants to get a college education, great. That can be a bonus perk they provide.

]]> By: bryan http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/ncaa_investigator_alabama_couldnt_control_booster/comment-page-1/#comment-50005 bryan Sun, 26 Jun 2005 19:09:49 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/11089#comment-50005 The NCAA as a sanctioning body has become little more than a travesty writ large. From the idiotic rules about players and recruiting to the insanely uneven penalties that have been handed down to the assinine BCS - the NCAA is proving far less than useful. The fact that the head of the agency is former Indiana U. pres. Miles Brand is more than a little ironic. The NCAA as a sanctioning body has become little more than a travesty writ large. From the idiotic rules about players and recruiting to the insanely uneven penalties that have been handed down to the assinine BCS - the NCAA is proving far less than useful. The fact that the head of the agency is former Indiana U. pres. Miles Brand is more than a little ironic.

]]> By: SportsBlog http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/ncaa_investigator_alabama_couldnt_control_booster/comment-page-1/#comment-49989 SportsBlog Sun, 26 Jun 2005 15:04:34 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/11089#comment-49989 <strong>NCAA Investigator: Alabama Couldn't Control Booster</strong> An NCAA investigator has admitted that the University of Alabama could not have avoided sanctions on its football team because the booster in question was outside the school's control. NCAA investigator: UA couldn't stop sanctions (Birmingham News) T... NCAA Investigator: Alabama Couldn't Control Booster

An NCAA investigator has admitted that the University of Alabama could not have avoided sanctions on its football team because the booster in question was outside the school's control. NCAA investigator: UA couldn't stop sanctions (Birmingham News) T...

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