Keith Law Chat

Andrew (Centereach, NY) Why does the NCAA let a head coach leave his team and coach right away (like the Wagner HC) a little more than a month to go before the seasons starts but if a player did it for the same reason (closer/better for his family) he would have to sit a year? Klaw (3:27 PM) Because the NCAA treats its players as if it is doing them a favor by letting them play revenue-generating sports for free.

This is from the Keith Law chat session yesterday.

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Why would someone ask Keith Law that question?

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by SoWasRed on Jan 13, 2012 11:07 AM CST reply actions

Is the formatting on that jacked up?

by Adam J. Morris on Jan 13, 2012 11:10 AM CST up reply actions

yeah

Josey Wales: "And if you think intangibles really do exist, how in the F could you vote Ellsbury as the MVP?"

Adam J. Morris: "If it weren’t for my horse, I wouldn’t have spent that year in college."

by Gdawg on Jan 13, 2012 11:13 AM CST up reply actions

Yes.

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by SoWasRed on Jan 13, 2012 11:14 AM CST up reply actions

Yes.

Whole front page formatting is off.

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by Brad on Jan 13, 2012 11:16 AM CST up reply actions

free?

by Longhorn on Jan 13, 2012 11:22 AM CST reply actions

only non-scholarship players fit that category

And that constitutes a very small percentage of athletes among the revenue-producing sports

by Heebs on Jan 13, 2012 11:46 AM CST up reply actions

Eh, they are still getting about a 1000% ROI

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by TargetField on Jan 13, 2012 12:20 PM CST up reply actions

Only a small percentage of them

Josey Wales: "And if you think intangibles really do exist, how in the F could you vote Ellsbury as the MVP?"

Adam J. Morris: "If it weren’t for my horse, I wouldn’t have spent that year in college."

by Gdawg on Jan 13, 2012 1:23 PM CST up reply actions

Seems it's comparing apples to oranges

Student athletes are not employees. Governing a coach’s ability to change jobs falls under an entirely different set of laws. It seems to me any rule the NCAA would create would quickly be undone via a lawsuit.

Of course, I’m not a lawyer. I only play one on message boards.

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by northtexan95 on Jan 13, 2012 11:34 AM CST reply actions

I think you're missing the point of Keith Law's comment there

Josey Wales: "And if you think intangibles really do exist, how in the F could you vote Ellsbury as the MVP?"

Adam J. Morris: "If it weren’t for my horse, I wouldn’t have spent that year in college."

by Gdawg on Jan 13, 2012 1:23 PM CST up reply actions

Ask any graduate struggling with debt

And they’ll tell you they aren’t playing basketball for free.

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by jtts on Jan 13, 2012 12:22 PM CST via mobile reply actions

True that...

Wish I could have graduated debt free. Thankfully I make enough to fully service the payments, but it’ll still be years to finish those things off and I’v’e been graduated for over 3 years now.

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by rangers85 on Jan 13, 2012 3:18 PM CST up reply actions

College baseball

College baseball is not a revenue-generating sport.

I understand Law’s comment with regard to football players at major universities, but it’s not really applicable to baseball players which is the context in which he made it.

by Darrell McKown on Jan 13, 2012 6:31 PM CST reply actions