{"id":37150,"date":"2013-08-19T10:52:45","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T14:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37150"},"modified":"2013-08-19T10:54:56","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T14:54:56","slug":"stupid-ncaa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37150","title":{"rendered":"Stupid NCAA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don’t expect me to use a lot of sports terminology, but the NCAA is a bunch of hand-wringing pussies for not allowing 5-year Marine Corps veteran Steven Rhodes play his freshman year at Middle Tennessee State University because he played for his unit while he was in the Marines. From Fox News<\/a>;<\/p>\n

According to The Daily News Journal, the rule essentially says student-athletes who do not enroll in college within a year of graduating high school will be charged one year of collegiate eligibility for every academic year they participate in organized competition.<\/p>\n

By NCAA standards, Steven Rhodes’ play at the Marine base counted as “organized competition” because there were game officials, team uniforms and the score was kept.<\/p>\n

But the 6-foot-3, 240-pound Marine sergeant said the recreational league was nothing close to organized.<\/p>\n

“Man, it was like intramurals for us,” said the 24-year-old. “There were guys out there anywhere from 18 to 40-something years old. The games were spread out. We once went six weeks between games.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From the Daily New Journal<\/a>;<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is extremely frustrating. I think it\u2019s unfair, highly unfair,\u201d Rhodes said. \u201cI just got out of the Marine Corps, and I wanted to play. For (the NCAA) to say, \u2018No, you can\u2019t play right now,\u2019 I just don\u2019t understand the logic in that.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The NCAA says that they don’t want to red-shirt Rhodes, but that they have to. It sounds pretty arbitrary to me. I saw some dingus Twitter to Fox News that Rhodes is a Marine so he should understand rules and just sit down and take it. To that guy, I send a hearty F-you!.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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