I spit my drink lol.  He compared the ncaa to a HOA in regards to the rule on not decorating recruits hotel rooms and how petty it is.  Well played sir!

They make more rules that don't matter than anyone I know.

I think we can all agree that the NCAA, as it is today, has lost the respect of fans of all sports across America. It has lost several big court cases (and is likely to lose the Tennessee case) and apparently trying, without much success, to remain relevant. The sooner the NCAA gets its act together or is done away with by a new body controlled by the SEC/Big 10 the better college athletics will be. 

Let's worry about costs of "decorating" hotel rooms. Of all the things to discuss, that just makes no sense.

You think any other sports league would bother with such a rule?

1 hour ago, Bobby Burton said:

Let's worry about costs of "decorating" hotel rooms. Of all the things to discuss, that just makes no sense.

You think any other sports league would bother with such a rule?

It’s a child throwing a tantrum in my opinion 

Ok, so now the hotel will have a "Texas package" where your room comes with all sorts of Texas gear and cookie cakes - Texas flips the bill for the Texas Package but doesn't decorate it. Come on. 

1 hour ago, Realist Horn said:

Ok, so now the hotel will have a "Texas package" where your room comes with all sorts of Texas gear and cookie cakes - Texas flips the bill for the Texas Package but doesn't decorate it. Come on. 

Exactly, is so easy to loophole it's asanine.

And today the NCAA got embarrassed in court by Tennessee 

12 minutes ago, Texas fan in Georgia said:

And today the NCAA got embarrassed in court by Tennessee 

It's all over but the crying now. The NCAA is going to need to go away or get out of the way.

There are 1,000+ schools that still want the NCAA or something similar to manage every level of competitive collegiate sports that isn’t the top half of division 1 football.  That being said, the NCAA has completely lost control of the situation and has become an anachronism that D1 football schools are now essentially just ignoring.  
 

The players being employees ruling recently is pretty interesting.  There’s a massive difference between a Texas football player being an employee of the UT versus a gymnast at a 1,000 student D3 liberal arts college.  It’s obvious that the “amateur” tag that applied to college athletes for decades is now dead, but the replacement for how players and academic institutions interact is now being redefined in real-time as legal rulings and negotiations amongst the parties lay the groundwork for the future lay of the land.  In the meantime, chaos is the order of the day. 

It's a sad day in America when you heathens won't allow a young man to destroy women in athletics.

For what it is worth and a view from FarAway:

The NCAA should consist of 4 units - Super, Large, Medium and Small.  Each unit should have its own rules and governors (the rules making /enforcing body).  To be in the Super group you must play football and have a total of 12 varsity sports minimum...........pretty easy mark.  A fixed 24 team football tournament.  The remaining group members can play a bowl game it they choose, or they could make their players go to class.     

A Super conference team can only play one Large conference team annually.   That will help UT system funnel money to UTEP/SA/SFA.  LSU will be required to place one of the Louisianna directional schools, and A/M (as part of its Bryan Eagle awarded annual National Championship) can choose between Tarlton or Commerce.   Notre Dame will be restricted to only Catholic directional institutions or Northwestern.  Essentially each team has one "warm up game", one game from another conference and 10 games that mean something.  

UIl money will be allowed but allocated among sports based on the number of players in each sport and percentage of total revenues generated for the athletic department. Each sport then allocates its own mulla based on simple math.  Yes, women will not get the same as football, although basketball would probably be even split.  At OU softball will get a larger split than baseball.  This is due to Sooner softballs larger than normal crowds and, of course, having larger balls than the boys.

The NCAA executive committee will get an annual box at the Circuit of Americas race if they never meet or talk to one another.  Any conversations of any type or mode (texting) among themselves will automatically disqualify them from The Box and the inevitable hotties that come with it.  

You see, these things aren't nearly as complicated as the academics make them!