Commission on College Basketball recommendations

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https://www.stltoday.com/sports/col...cle_a24ed58d-8f95-5539-9518-c89dcca88fa1.html

Former Mizzou athletics tutor Yolanda Kumar isn’t done naming names. In a barrage of tweets posted Monday, the NCAA whistle blower said she plans to publish the names of Mizzou “students, classes and (academic) coordinators” connected to the academic fraud accusations she first made in the fall of 2016, along with “the new allegations.”

In March 2017, Kumar told the Post-Dispatch she met with NCAA and Mizzou officials in January of that year and admitted she helped 42 MU athletes commit varying degrees of academic fraud.

For anyone interested:
Former MU athletics tutor has not followed through with Twitter release
https://www.columbiamissourian.com/...cle_55743cee-8ab4-11e8-b7d6-d779596b969b.html

 

[Tevo]

One might argue that many D1 athletes, especially in the revenue sports, are admitted despite educational backgrounds that give them little chance for success in college-level work, that programs expend little to no effort to bridge that gap beyond just keeping the players eligible as athletes, and that such cases are disproportionately among black males, reproducing the broader inequalities in society.

One might then counter-argue though that an up-front financial incentive to graduate for athletes would create a draw for players, especially those same black males, to commit to schools that will help them graduate.

One might then counter-counter argue that the UNC-type stuff would only get worse if programs had to "graduate" their players in order to survive in recruiting.

This stuff isn't easy. Gotta be careful. But these are the right questions to be asking.

Another cynical take would be to note that if a school DOESN'T graduate a kid, that money would then go to a bunch of other groups the school is tied to, like the NCAA and their own general scholarship fund.

I do like the idea of tying the revenue to educational goals, but it probably needs tweaking, like escalating the payout for years completed. Something like 10% after year 1, 25% after year 2, 60% after year 3 and 100% upon graduation.