National Committee of Abject Absurdity

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You can always count on the NCAA for a solid dozen or so absurd ‘rulings’ each year. This week we have another one on which to ruminate. This blog entry is fantastic.

I love the fact that committee member Patrick Nero is in charge of telling women what offends them. Especially while he and his committee are actually offending them — or at the very least, giving them reason to be concerned:

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7 Responses to National Committee of Abject Absurdity

  1. GAWolf 12/15/2006 at 12:24 PM #

    Jebus.

  2. VaWolf82 12/15/2006 at 12:31 PM #

    Nicely done….but it kills half of an entry that I was working on.

    Does anyone proof read something before they issue it? There are several instances of rampant stupidity currently in the news and you can always count on the NCAA to add to the list.

  3. WTNY 12/15/2006 at 1:31 PM #

    Good ‘ole Title IX.

  4. BJD95 12/15/2006 at 1:33 PM #

    Brian Bosworth preferred “National Communists Against Athletes.”

  5. Spin Wolf 12/15/2006 at 3:06 PM #

    Help me out here – Is the Title IX violation that since the women are practicing against men, it denies their fellow women the chance to be practice players? Is that it?

    I’ve got mixed feeling about title IX itself, but this is just ridiculous. ANY rule/law can be unjustly applied if the bureacracy insists on absolutism and taking it to the extreme. Sadly, the NCAA has cornered the market on those two attributes.

    I wonder when the scales will finally tip enough for a few big revenue schools to say “screw you” to the NCAA?

  6. VaWolf82 12/15/2006 at 3:37 PM #

    There is no Title IX violation. That’s why they have to make a new rule….no one is violating anything.

    The intent of Title IX was to get colleges to spend money on women athletics. In practice, much of the additional money spent on women was taken from existing men’s sports (swimming, wrestling, etc). How that has anything at all to do with practice or who attends practice is beyond me.

  7. Lunatic Fringe 12/16/2006 at 9:11 AM #

    I was curious who actually made up the Committee for Women’s Athletics to make these types of rulings and I found this list (gotta love Google).

    http://web1.ncaa.org/committees/committees_roster.jsp?CommitteeName=COMWA

    We have members from Delta State University, Muhlenberg College, and the University of New England making decisions on college athletics, but there is NO representative from the PAC 10, ACC, SEC, Big East, or Big 12. Conferences that “own” the majority of the women’s national titles are not even on the committee. In fact, the only two BCS schools that are represented by the committee are Indiana and Iowa.

    Trust me…I know absolutely NOTHING about Indiana and Iowa Women’s programs, but the internet is a wonderful thing. I found that in the 4 major sports (basketball, softball, soccer, and volleyball) that the two token BCS schools on the committee have been OK at best in a couple sports and completely awful in the others.

    We have a committee made of officials that are not even a part of the major conferences which own most of the championships and the only two BCS teams on the list are programs that do not even appear to be competitive in their on conference.

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