Is a "Jayhawk Rule" just around the corner?

[RoyalShock]

Gary Parrish seems to think requiring incoming recruits to have met academic eligibility standards is unfair.

[AndShock]

Gary Parrish seems to think requiring incoming recruits to have met academic eligibility standards is unfair.

Freaking great idea. Let's let the UNCs of the world decide if a kid is a capable college student.

Better idea is to let the kids play if the school chooses and then if the NCAA ends up declaring someone ineligible, strip the team of all its wins in which that player appeared.

[ShockdaWorld]

Idiot. Let's just let anybody in that wants in. Who cares if they graduated from high school. It's just college basketball. They not here for class. They here to hoop.

[WSUwatcher]

I wonder if Parrish's commentary was commissioned by someone in Lawrence.

And such a humanitarian motivation, too. Break the international cycle of poverty and let them play! Interesting that he cited Stanford and others (including Illinois State, of all people) instead of the one-year wonder factories like KU / UK.

[RoyalShock]

I find it odd that he says "The only prospects ever affected, with few exceptions, are prospects from poor school systems and or foreign countries." Yet he uses Diallo as the example, who's situation, if I understand correctly is due entirely to him attending questionable prep schools.

I understand letting kids from foreign countries in, as long as they graduated from their country's recognized secondary school. But the idea that kids from poor school systems - which should be much easier to graduate from and meet requirements - are unfairly affected, is a non-starter. Logic fail.

[shock]

These kids are STUDENT athletes. If they want their skills to better their situation, go overseas a la Brandon Jennings. Do not let greed taint our academic system. Doing this would devalue every degree handed out by any university who brings in a Diallo or a Cliff Alexander, even though they will likely never complete more than 12 credits.

[shock]

If this means that much to them, make an exception and let the U of Phoenix play an exempt team. Let them be the exception to the rule, as their degrees are already a joke. Then we would know that any "student" athlete there is strictly there to play "college" basketball with no intention of getting a meaningful degree.

[ShockBand]

If this means that much to them, make an exception and let the U of Phoenix play an exempt team. Let them be the exception to the rule, as their degrees are already a joke. Then we would know that any "student" athlete there is strictly there to play "college" basketball with no intention of getting a meaningful degree.

Calipari to the U of Phoenix? Oh, let's get that rumor going on the interwebs...

[DUShock]

Not everyone is meant for university, the NBA should just sign who they want and go from there.

[wufan]

I suppose I get it. If KU thinks he is capable, then they admit him and if after one semester he isn't capable, then he becomes ineligible. It's the University's responsibility, and not the NCAA (whom over reaches on so much anyway). I don't know, maybe that'd be okay.

OTOH, nobody is losing out on this from an "underprivileged" perspective as best I can tell. Dialo is on scholarship and getting an education. He's even allowed to play with the team despite not being academically cleared. He's getting a free education.

[Shox21]

And if after one semester he fails -- what happens with the games he has "helped" his team win while "unqualified" to go to the university?

[Aargh]

If the NCAA were to drop academic requirements, they would lose the concept that the players are really students volunteering to represent their school. That's what the NCAA has fought to avoid admitting forever.

If the athletes aren't students first, then they are hired, professional athletes. That would destroy the NCAA's entire reason for existing.

[wufan]

And if after one semester he fails -- what happens with the games he has "helped" his team win while "unqualified" to go to the university?

It would be similar to if they they were declared ineligible after any semester. They would be ineligible the following semester (see Jerian Grant). The other piece to this is that these guys are NOT ineligible to be admitted to the school. Dialo, for instance did gain admission to KU. If he wasn't a basketball player, and wanted to attend KU, he would be admitted just like any other student. Kobe Eubanks, OTOH, was not admitted to Alabama based on his academic performance. If a player can gain admittance, it is reasonable that they could play their first semester. After such time, they would then fall under the jurisdiction of the NCAA.

I'm not totally for this, but I'm not totally against it either.

[ShockdaWorld]

The problem is that KU, UK, UNC, anybody that wants to can admit anyone they want to admit. It's up to the university to have whatever academic standards they want to allow people to enroll. They could really have zero academic standards if they so chose. I can see this completely leaving open the possibility of someone that hasn't completed any specific level of education to become a student. What is to stop them from allowing some basketball star with no academics to "enroll" into the basketball program for second semester with no other reasoning than to help them make a run in March? They don't become ineligible until after the semester is over, so they really wouldn't ever have to attend any classes at all. Wait...am I talking about the Parrish story or about UNC?

[Kung Wu]

I think I got it, I can buy us some $100 hookers until they are declared eligible, right?

- Andre McGee