Gonna be a really quick post here, Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) sports fans.
If you haven’t heard, Cal Poly is in trouble with the NCAA for providing a larger stipend than permitted for the cost of textbooks. According to the NCAA:
For a period of three-and-one half years, Cal Poly violated book-related financial aid legislation. Specifically, from the 2012-13 academic year through the 2015 fall quarter, Cal Poly provided 265 student-athletes impermissible financial aid in the form of $800 cash stipends for books and course-related supplies that was not equal to the actual cost of those items, as required by NCAA legislation. The institution mistakenly believed it could provide the book stipends in the same manner it provided room and board stipends. Some student-athletes used portions of these funds to pay for items that were not required course-related books and supplies and, in doing so, received impermissible benefits.
Dan Wolken’s (USA Today) thoughts on this are terrific:
The NCAA is putting Cal Poly on probation and vacating games for this? Lol. pic.twitter.com/qbJOrMBGBg
Essentially the NCAA is punishing the school/kids because of a $200 per athlete accounting error. Absurd. C : @JayBilas
— Dan Wolken (@DanWolken) April 18, 2019
Cal Poly got more of a punishment for giving its athletes textbooks than North Carolina got for fake classes
— Dan Wolken (@DanWolken) April 18, 2019
It seems to me there is a better way for the NCAA to handle this. This isn’t it. Dan is right that the level of punishment received by Cal Poly – and what UNC received are not in the area code of congruence.
SMH.
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Hokie Mark says:
April 20, 2019 at 2:44 pm (UTC -5)
The NCAA suffers from a chronic case of CONFLICT OF INTEREST!
UNC makes them money, Cal-Poly doesn’t. As long as the NCAA is funded by the basketball tournament (instead of dues – as I think it should be funded), it will continue to give incongruent sanctions.