OT: SDSt coach Steve Fisher Calls out NCAA

[IU Hoosier41 14,465]

Fast Forward to the 1:30 mark. I have to say I agree with him 100%. That's pretty damn cheap of the NCAA.

http://youtu.be/DTw27kqp-EQ


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[IU Hoosier41 14,465]

If you didn't watch, their game ended at 11:30pm, the NCAA told them they wouldn't cover the hotel rooms and they would send them home that night. Fisher goes off about how the Student Athletes wouldn't get home until 5am because of it. With as much money as the NCAA makes off of March Madness, you'd think they would at least let the kids stay the night of their game after a loss. But then again; then they wouldn't be the NCAA


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[EvilleAngler 636]

Trying to say the ncaa is all about money?  say it isn't so....

[BlueDevil 9,256]

[quote name="IU Hoosier41" post="51608" timestamp="1395497401"]If you didn't watch, their game ended at 11:30pm, the NCAA told them they wouldn't cover the hotel rooms and they would send them home that night. Fisher goes off about how the Student Athletes wouldn't get home until 5am because of it. With as much money as the NCAA makes off of March Madness, you'd think they would at least let the kids stay the night of their game after a loss. But then again; then they wouldn't be the NCAA


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Yeah I could understand if they played a day game no problem but that's BS they made them go straight home that late. Wouldn't expect anything less from the NCAA.

[colonel06 1,933]

Bravo for Fisher, this should go viral as they say.  The athletes are providing entertainment for the whole country and more right now!  Pony up for reasonable care for the athletes

[Hwy 1 2,053]

waiting for Fisher to get fined now

[Rayl 527]

Fined? Nah. Criticizing the NCAA during the tournament is grounds for a show cause order.

[Scooter D 928]

Can those dumb "First Four" 1st round games be addresed next and get this field back to 64?

[Hovadipo 59,182]

To play devil's advocate, I think it's less about money and more about scheduling and rescheduling chartered flights.


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[CampHoosier 3,697]

I was thinking this could all be solved if the school would just pay for an extra night in the hotel but I'm not sure how the whole thing works/ I don't get how the NCAA should be able to make your travel arragements

[BlueDevil 9,256]

[quote name="CampCrean" post="52484" timestamp="1395674600"]I was thinking this could all be solved if the school would just pay for an extra night in the hotel but I'm not sure how the whole thing works/ I don't get how the NCAA should be able to make your travel arragements[/quote]

Fisher also made it seem like the team didn't know until they lost. I'm sure that the teams were well aware they would have to go home if they lost. Still think it's a shady move but I'm sure the teams were aware.

[Rayl 527]

I was thinking this could all be solved if the school would just pay for an extra night in the hotel but I'm not sure how the whole thing works/ I don't get how the NCAA should be able to make your travel arragements

 

I would guess that the NCAA does it because a lot of the small conference schools don't have the money to pay their own way. It also makes sense for the NCAA to make arrangements for hotels and to have charter planes available long before schools know where they will be playing or even if they are going.