Not April Fools' Day - NCAA confiscates reporter's cat mug
So, the NCAA, bastion of upholding the virtues of student athleticism, has a deal with Powerade (TM) that only Powerade (TM) cups shall be used on press row of NCAA games, because won't someone please think of the student-athletes?
Jason Gay of the Wall Street Journal knew this and pretty much set this up to make this a story, but the NCAA's goons fell for it and took the guy's cat mug - with 4 minutes left in the second half. Short, amusing read about this stunt. At this point, anything that prods the NCAA and their hypocrisy is fine by me. also, i hope that the NCAA has to report confiscated cat mugs as some sort of benefit and self report a violation.
warning - pictures of non-NCAA, athletic juice sponsored drink-ware below:
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304157204579473352891772622
"How many times do I have to read about how much Emmert gets and then, when I ask why that matters, get told that it does not?" The answer to the former is obviously once. Also, if you actually read what I said before it's "not JUST Emmert and cat cups". And if you think cat cups are the real subject of this thread, you're just more lost than I thought.
You are just weaseling here. You say it is "not JUST Emmert and cat cups" but won't say, specifically, what it is, other than a vague "it's about what the players get." What SHOULD the players get, and how do cat cups and Emmert's salary fit into that "getting?" It is a fairly simple question, which I have asked repeatedly, and all I get are weasels. Not even weasel cups.
"What should the players get" is a simple question? To hell it is. That's for people to decide who know the system better than us. For example, a players union negotiating with a school or the NCAA.
96%! That's some comparative pittance!
They can still go a little overboard though. I read one reporter was told she couldn't drink out of her Powerade bottle she got at the vending machine
I was at a game in some small gym one time -- I think it was at Yale. They had a giant Powerade cooler on the sideline. On top of the cooler were the bottles of Gatorade that they were pouring into the Powerade cups. The whole thing is a silly exercise in corporate marketing, and just slightly Orwellian.
I applaud any attempts to show the NCAA's hypocrisy. Yes, the journalist knew the rules, but the rule is asinine precisely because of the official stance on amateurism. If the NCAA wants to run amateur athletics competitions, they should follow the same rules themselves and divest themselves of all "corporate partners" (as opposed to incorporate partners, I suppose?), event sponsors, and the like.
Instead, they regulate cream cheese on athletes' bagels and the cups that may be used on press row. They're ridiculous.
No one drinks Powerade.
There's no hypocrisy here. This stunt is just part of the intellectually lazy, I-get-a-cookie pile on to the NCAA. Easier than writing a real story, I suppose.
Taking my comments to OT: MGoApril Fools thread.