The NCAA Is Run By Idiots

The BBQ Pit
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This is not exactly a news flash, I know. But consider what happened last night in Atlanta:

A TORNADO hit Atlanta!

So, what’s the NCAA’s wonderful response to the tornado’s effects on Atlanta, the damage caused to both the city and the Georgia Dome? Force a doubleheader for one team today, all in the name of their precious selection show tomorrow night. And the SEC must have the tournament done by 6 PM Sunday or they lose their automatic spot for the winner of the conference.

And now more tornadoes are possible. What are they going to do if they have to cancel playing today as well for safety reasons?

I am not really a college basketball fan and have no interest in the SEC. But institutional stupidity always pisses me off.

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Do you have any idea how college basketball works? The NCAA had nothing to do with this.

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Fine, fine. The SEC came up with the schedule. But it’s the NCAA insisting on having no flexibility once again. And I still stand the basic assertion that the NCAA could be run better by a bunch of monkeys.

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That may be true, but this is no evidence of it.

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Did you go to college?

If so, try to remember exactly how efficient and logical it was to deal with university bureaucrats.

The NCAA is run by the same folks.

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Simple proof: Give N groups of monkeys calendars and a series of pushpins bearing the school pennants of the member schools. Analyze results.

As for the rules – the group working on Shakespeare has volunteered to revise them as soon as they’re finished with “The Two Gentlemen of Burundi.”

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EXCACTLY! Anyone who has sat in a faculty meeting understands completely why the NCAA is like it its. It is a college department writ large with money.

I once looke up the CV of NCAA president Miles Brand - it’s on the NCAA site. He started life as a philosophy professor and then worked his way up the administrative ranks at IU. If he has any training in the law, or business administration of any form it can not be found there.

Having said that, I’m betting it’s CBS calling the shots here, not the NCAA

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What exactly would you people like the NCAA to do here? Please, outline the logistics you’re proffering because I’d love to hear it.

Part of the NCAA’s job is to ensure fairness in college athletics. They write down the rules and everyone knows what they are. Bending a rule in extenuating circumstances sets a precedent that all rules could be bent based on the whims of the NCAA.

In this case, the NCAA has a $1B contract with CBS and logistics for 64 schools’ travel arrangements have to be made immediately following the selection show. The tournament is enormous and takes a large amount of coordination – changing the timing of everything at the last minute simply to avoid a team playing twice in the same day can’t possibly be feasible.