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The NCAA voted yesterday that conferences without 12 members can hold a conference championship game.
DI Council approves proposal allowing FBS conferences without 12 members to hold conference championship football games.
— NCAA (@NCAA) January 13, 2016
That vote allows the Big 12 and the ACC to set up their conference championship games next season.
One would hope that there was some vote trading going on in the process of this being approved, that vote trading being that the big 12 in the ACC members will vote to allow satellite camps to continue. If there was no vote trading going on you have to conclude that our Big Ten representatives are not very good politicians.
Overlooked:
The NCAA cleared the University of Texas of academic misconduct, but did come up with some recommendations. Brad Wolverton broke down the report that was issued because of the investigation and had some interesting points on twitter yesterday.
For example:
62% of Texas football players and 73% of men’s basketball players are enrolled in the College of Education. Just 5% of Texas undergrads are.
— Brad Wolverton (@bradwolverton) January 13, 2016
Do all student athletes get to pick their major?
At Texas, you better have a major in mind, or be a strong enough student to choose one. Otherwise this can happen. pic.twitter.com/HRKJp09b8i
— Brad Wolverton (@bradwolverton) January 13, 2016
It appears to be a little damning that's because it is. I pointed out here not just because it's Texas, although that does make it more fun, but because I wish to put a spotlight on the overall hypocrisy on the concept of "student athlete".
No doubt this kind of behavior is widespread. It would be interesting to see an equivalent report on the SEC and the Big Ten.
There is no shock and the fact that many student-athletes attend college to play sports and sports is all they care about. You would hope that will all the lofty messages the NCAA tries to send that someone in these universities would be looking out for these so-called student athletes to make sure that they don't waste the free degree that many of them have been given.
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Ohio State-Oregon in the title game last year drew a lot more viewers than Alabama-Clemson this year.
Then There's This:
Alan Rickman, Harry Potter and Die Hard actor, dies aged 69 - BBC News
Actor Alan Rickman, known for films including Harry Potter, Die Hard, Truly Madly Deeply and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, has died at the age of 69.