Posted on 03/26/2024 12:44:58 AM PDT by Devils_Tower
https://apnews.com/article/ncaa-transfer-portal-22ef447ad67826138724cec3cd6ab581
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U.S. District Judge John Preston Bailey in northern West Virginia issued the order against the NCAA from enforcing the transfer rule. A lawsuit filed by West Virginia and six other states alleged the rule’s waiver process violated federal antitrust law. The order clears the way for athletes to play during the two-week period and also ensures that schools won’t be punished for allowing it.
What’s the point of having rules if they can be discarded by court order?
anarcho-tyranny
Imagine if you’re a doctor who takes a new job at another hospital … only to have your state medical licensing board tell you that you must sit out for a year before working at the new job. That kind of idiocy wouldn’t last 8 seconds in a courtroom.
If the rule is unfair, it should be overturned. However, I do see many disadvantages in giving inexperienced athletes too much power in this area as well. The majority of college athletes don’t go pro and giving them too much right now would hurt their scholastic future, imo.
Although I realize that college athleticism is more pro in today’s world anyway.
This is going to bring about the end of major college sports as you know it. The NCAA is a big-money racket anyway, so that’s not a bad thing.
I understand, but they don’t have the life experience and not all of them have the wisdom or family background to keep themselves from destroying themselves.
I understand my position is not about legality, but morality.
No worries as they are extending the Transfer Portal down to the High School level from accounts in some States..The final death of Sports.
It has been said that quite a few colleges are basically "football teams with a school attached".
When sports end, the schools will end. Combine this with the plagiarism scandals at Harvard and other achools, the worthless degrees, the student loan crisis, and increasing awareness of the indoctrination issues and the US university system may collapse entirely.
Personally, I would like to see a national push for On The Job training, trade schools and similar initiatives. The number of young people who "need" something like college is probably less than 10% of the number of people who currently go to college. It's basically a scam except (perhaps) for engineering and medicine.
2. There must be hundreds of ways for young adults to “destroy themselves.” Are you suggesting there should be onerous rules to deal with all of them?
1. I understand that.
2. Are we not our brother’s keeper on some level?
Would you not want your child to be warned before his life
inexperience did him in somehow?
If after getting guidance, they remain headstrong and stupid, that’s their responsibility.
Well the way my Nittany Lions collapse at OSU and UM every year that’s a mercy killing.
What’s the point of having rules if they are arbitrary by the issuance of waivers?
Rules should be updated, but I agree with you that they shouldn’t be magically waived by the courts just because they can.
The transfer portal is active for high schools in West Virginia. All the great athletes are transferring and creating super teams. These super teams beat everyone and its ruining the competitiveness of high school sports, especially football. This issue was in the local news a lot during football season.
Everyone gave the Astros crap for stealing signs. This allows teams to steal an entire playbook right before a big game.
I hate the transfer portal. It took the scholastic out of scholastic sports.
EC
Non compete clauses keep doctors from practicing all the time
To sow discontent.
Probably.
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