NCAA Rules…
Texas suspended wide receiver Billy Pittman for three games Friday after learning he broke school amateurism rules by borrowing a friend’s car this summer.
Is this an NCAA rule? Because if it’s just a school rule then Texas must have some kind of good-two-shoes mentality. The NCAA already has so many rules that I probably break several of them per day and I’m not even a student-athlete. Matter of fact, just the other day I let a hockey player borrow my pencil so he could scrawl something on the bathroom stall. This probably constitutes a violation of some sort. Clearly, this extra benefit stuff has gotten out of control and we need to reign it in quickly.
I propose the following rule changes so that we can be sure student-athletes aren’t entering the forbidden region of professionalism.
1. Student-athletes should live in homeless shelters and be required to ride public transit everywhere they go, including to games. They also must sit at the front of the bus.
2. Their clothes, household goods, and furnishings must come from the Salvation Army and be returned when no longer needed.
3. Student-athletes must bathe in streams and rivers so that public water will not have to be piped to them, this is obviously a perk that only “professional” athletes should enjoy.
4. They must forage for food in dumpsters and landfills. Eating normally prepared food is clearly an extra benefit that these amateur student-athletes should not be afforded.
In short, why can’t these athletes look at Reggie Bush for an example. I mean would he have EVER borrowed his friend’s car for the summer? I think not. We need more players like Reggie. Where have all the Reggies gone?