MICHIGAN'S MEN'S BASKETBALL: 2015-2016

[*JD*]

I do think it's silly that a DUI often only warrants a suspension of a few games whereas a bad piss test that doesn't reveal PEDs can lose you a whole season.

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[hack]

Rules are rules, stupid or not.

Except when they are not, which is plenty of the time with those people. No credibility there. Fuck them

[Whitley]

Anyone else reminded (though a different situation) that seems like Crawford all over again because of an absolutely insane NCAA rule.

[Da Geezer]

Horford chooses Florida. He is immediately eligible.

[Mackenzie]

Horford chooses Florida. He is immediately eligible.

Wonder if Horford knew about MM and figuring the team would be weak wanted to go to a school he thought could make a deeper run than M even if that meant giving up playing time. Maybe he just wanted to go someplace different as part of his college experience. Maybe the brutal winter in Michigan also scared him off. Anyone know what course of study for which he enrolled?

[lineygoblue]

Anyone else reminded (though a different situation) that seems like Crawford all over again because of an absolutely insane NCAA rule.

Absolutely. In both cases, the student athletes were forced into professional basketball due to the harshness of the penalty. In Crawford's case, he actually would have had to break a rule, to remedy the rule the NCAA said he broke. He would have had to come up with over $1500 on his own, to "pay back" the family friend that bought him the beater he was driving. In McGary's case, he would effectively miss two seasons of competitive basketball for smoking a joint.

And of course, the NCAA changes their policy right after they stick the screws to yet another Michigan athlete.

[Tony G]

In McGary's case, he would effectively miss two seasons of competitive basketball for smoking a joint.

You mean for choosing to smoke a joint?? I'm not buying him as a victim in this case

[hack]

I think that holds water if the NCAA were upholing the rules evenly in all cases. As it is however we know that's not the case. Things are sometimes by the book and other times by the who-the-fuck-knows-what? Plus, there's common sense, which of course flies in the face of all of that.

[WM Wolverine]

This is a pretty cut and dried rule, I don't agree with the severity but a rule is a rule.

[hack]

Not with the NCAA. A rule is not a rule with the NCAA in enough cases that the rules aren't what you ought to be paying attention to. The operating environment is what you ought to be paying attention to, and acting accordingly.

[Jeff Buchanan]

Not with the NCAA. A rule is not a rule with the NCAA in enough cases that the rules aren't what you ought to be paying attention to. The operating environment is what you ought to be paying attention to, and acting accordingly.

That would be nice.

Just an off-handed remark that applies somewhat.

I used to work for the Georgia Department of Corrections. 60% of the inmates were under 30 and repeat offenders of drug laws. The cost of incarceration 10 years ago was $48K per year. Tax payers bear that cost.

Meanwhile, violent crimes in Georgia go unabated. Crimes committed by persons with poorly managed psychiatric disorders, living in group homes where they can pretty much go wherever they want, are on the rise. Sex offenders, stalkers and abusive husbands rarely go to jail until a terrible crime is committed but Georgia sure is a safer place because tax payers are paying for thousands of 30 somethings incarcerated for smoking joints or doing crack.

Only in America.

College sports are afflicted by the same sorts of things as the "prison industry" in Gerogia. People are getting rich ... legislators never want to do anything that F's with that.

[iam416]

"War" on drugs has been an unmitigated disaster. See The Wire. The repeat offender/sentencing guidelines/three strikes crap makes so little sense.

[THE_WIZARD_]

You're a disaster.

[Hannibal]

College sports are afflicted by the same sorts of things as the "prison industry" in Gerogia. People are getting rich ... legislators never want to do anything that F's with that.

You are buying into meritless Class Warfare arguments, and that is how bad decisions with unintended (but predictable) consequences get made.

[lineygoblue]

Possession of small amounts of pot should never land anyone in jail. I used to believe otherwise, but I have changed my mind. Small amounts for personal use should be no more than a civil infraction/traffic ticket thing.

I want jails and prisons reserved for getting really bad and violent people off the street. Someone who is looking for a little buzz isn't going to be out to kill me for my crappy little car in a carjacking.