Mr. Yost

January 19th, 2017 at 8:07 PM ^

1. It sounds like it's not just Harbaugh...bigger than football

2. This is bullshit, basketball teams go to Europe - a lot of teams in other sports take these trips. It's just not affecting someone's recruiting. If Ole Miss wants to come have their spring break in Detroit, they're more than welcome. Have at it.

You can't say this is okay for some sports, but it's not okay for football. There was a quote in there about getting too far away from academics. Clearly that person has never been on a college spring break trip.

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trock444

January 20th, 2017 at 7:37 AM ^

They make rules so they don't trump each other, that are not illegal (everything else that they do is).  Then they bitch when someone else does the legal thing because they decided that they could not do it.  

 

They are truly the dumbest conference in the history of history.  Paul Finebaum...suck it. 

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KungFury

January 19th, 2017 at 7:11 PM ^

I really don't understand this. Every other college sport does it. I can't see how their outrage over Jim Harbaugh can impact every college sport and the opportunities traveling provides to the students. And to only regulate it in football seems like absolute insanity. I just don't know how you could write legislation with tight enough language to spare all other sports and still have a document that doesn't blatantly say fuck Jim Harbaugh.



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Mr Miggle

January 19th, 2017 at 9:54 PM ^

any different? The NCAA is not some entity forced upon the schools. It is them. working in concert. Frankly, I think they use it as a way of deflecting criticism. It's easy to point fingers at the big, bad and largely faceless NCAA instead of at your own school and they count on that.

Meanwhile the schools are quite content with the overall status quo. They have their little squabbles, but all the big things people really don't like about the NCAA are things the schools support.

The only way we'll see real change is if the athletes organize and demand a say in how it's run.

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Wolverine Devotee

January 19th, 2017 at 7:18 PM ^

Don't even care. Harbaugh will find another way. 

So keep making up rules on the fly, gutless dirtbags. You will never stop us.

 

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LKLIII

January 19th, 2017 at 7:20 PM ^

The argument about "kids need a break from their sport" is bogus. This isn't adding hours of practice time. It's just shifting the hours to spring break. In exchange, the students get a week or so additional time in the spring semester that won't have practice on campus (additional study time) and also get a bit of a spring break subsidized by the school because they'll have their flight and hotel paid for by the team.



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Wolverine Devotee

January 19th, 2017 at 7:31 PM ^

Michigan Softball will play their first 23 games of the season away from home, most of them on the West Coast.

Michigan Water Polo will played 28 of 38 games last season away from home. 

So in other words, they're just trying to keep the teams in the south who already cheat and break every rule with another advantage. 

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mlax27

January 19th, 2017 at 7:23 PM ^

Imagine the headlines if harbaugh were to announce this years destination tomorrow and it happened to be to someplace that emphasized education and benefitted student athletes...

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