Today Among the Noble Ideals of Amateurism
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The NCAA cartel is, as always, absolutely disgusting:
On the same day that NCAA president Mark Emmert told a crowd at the Knight Commission that allowing schools to dictate a college athlete’s ability to transfer “never made any sense” to him, the NCAA denied N.C. State guard Braxton Beverly’s appeal to play for the 2017 season. Wolfpack head coach Kevin Keatts criticized the decision in a statement released to ESPN, saying he was “disappointed” and Beverly was “devastated.”
“Disappointed would be an understatement for how I feel for Braxton, he’s devastated,” NC State coach Kevin Keatts said in a statement. “This is a situation where adults failed a young man and he’s the one paying the price.”
Beverly was part of the instantly infamous Ohio State Class of 2017, a ragtag bunch put together so shoddily by Thad Matta and his assistants that it ultimately cost Matta his job and kept the Buckeyes from even a spot in the NIT. Citing the recruiting failures and a bad back, Ohio State let Matta walk in June, long too late for incoming Buckeyes coach Chris Holtmann to salvage the recruiting class or, most likely, the upcoming season. Seeing that his first two years (at minimum) would be spent as a part of a rebuilding project, Beverly asked Holtmann for an immediate release, which the former Butler coach, in conjunction with the Ohio State administration, granted him.
As with the ban on receiving compensation for third parties, grossly exploited student-athletes actually have burdens imposed on them the ordinary students do not. There is absolutely no possible defense for the rule that requires athletes to sit out for a year after transferring. (Oddly, not only are coaches allowed to be paid massive sums of money — even when schools are bidding against themselves for comically incompetent ones who would be unemployable in the position anywhere else — and be compensated by third parties, but aren’t required to sit out a year before starting with a new program. Coerced “loyalty” in the NCAA is always a one-way street.)