Posted on 05/30/2013 7:34:46 PM PDT by GSWarrior
Hearty congratulations to the NCAA for penalizing a student-athlete from a West Coast Conference school for the unspeakable crime of washing her car with the university's water and hose.
A WCC school (University of Portland) self-reported an extra benefits violation when university officials caught one of their women's golfers washing her car on campus, according to the source. A secondary violation was ruled to have occurred because the water and hose were not available to regular students and requested the golfer pay back $20, which was deemed to be the value of the water and use of the hose.
A WCC spokesman did not immediately return an email seeking further explanation of what happened.
What's next? Charging athletes by the sip at drinking fountains? Or by the gallon after locker room showers?
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OK with me.
Those NCAA investigators would be better utilized spending some time in Lexington, Kentucky.
How about drinkiong from a University fountain? Is that OK?
NCAA owns the universities water?
PS - using the restroom?
I couldn’t help but notice that the athlete in question was not a football or basketball player.
This is why the NCAA has begun to drastically pare back their rules book—there are too many “ticky tack” rules that make no common sense.
A number of schools ought to drop out of the NCAA and form a rival organization to give the NCAA some competition and end its monopoly, which breeds corruption.
That’s OK with you? While UNC offers fake classes w/ easy A’s and Duke bball players get $70K loans to buy jewelry? The ncaa said “nothing to see here” to both of those instances.
Yet when this girl - who is probably getting books and partial tuition - washes her damn car, the school should be punished with a violation?
Really? WTF?
It is kind of telling that a university official felt compelled to report this “incident” as a violation. Really!
Well...I got a speeding ticket a few months ago and as much as I disliked it I resisted the temptation to trying to make my personal problem into a global conspiracy theme.
Pay the fine and move on, or do something about it. Life on Earth involves rules, too bad.
At this time 1999 Maryland had been in a year long dry spell and the drought showed no sign of relief.
By early July the Dem governor panicked and imposed very strict outdoor water use restrictions, no use of hoses at all. Limited watering from a container. Violations would bring a speeding ticket like fine eventually shutting off water to violators houses completely.
To enforce this the state got local papers and TV stations to publicize the ‘turn in your neighbor’ hotline which resulted in police visits and nosing around and questioning, although they rarely caught anyone during the act to fine them for obvious reasons. But many turned in their neighbors using that line.
“turn in your neighbor’, and the sheep just accepted it.
Then in early Sept a series of rainy hurricanes solved the problem.
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