DenverSooner
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I am so sick of watching the NCAA treat kids poorly. I have no clue what Tiny Gallon did or did not do. It doesn't matter.
The NCAA does not provide the student athletes with any rights or due process. They make major decisions about their lives based on politics, bias and who knows what else.
Tiny is the third student athlete in the State of Oklahoma to be treated unfairly by the NCAA this year (and that is just the big name people I know of). Jeff Capel and OU can't comment so rumors just run wild (see the Tribune article that Bigabd cited). That is BS. We have free speech and open government in this country. It is way past time that the Congress declare the NCAA is a state actor and must give all student athletes basic rights like due process.
Mike B. (can't spell his name), Dez Bryant and now Tiny have all been treated worst than convicts. If I broke in your house and attacked your family the government would have to give me due process, they would have to charge me with a crime and address those charges in a timely manner. If I were poor, I would get representation. Not the NCAA. They do whatever they want and are accountable to no one.
The NCAA isn't even accountable to the member organizations any more because they are all afraid to stand against the NCAA for fear that their athletic department will break some silly rule and be found to lack institutional control. This is truly one the biggest injustices in our society and we all just sit back and let it continue.
I would love to see the internet fans pressure the politicians to mandate that the NCAA be treated as a state actor and required to make their records public, provide due process and give these student athletes a bill of rights. Millions are made off these children, they deserve to be treated fairly.
Dez Bryant was scared and unsure of the rules and the consequences of his actions so he denied having dinner with Deon Sanders. They took away his right to play football. For what? People can go on a soap box about lying but when humans are scared and don't know the consequences of their actions (particularly young humans) they often don't tell the truth or the whole truth.
The NCAA does not provide the student athletes with any rights or due process. They make major decisions about their lives based on politics, bias and who knows what else.
Tiny is the third student athlete in the State of Oklahoma to be treated unfairly by the NCAA this year (and that is just the big name people I know of). Jeff Capel and OU can't comment so rumors just run wild (see the Tribune article that Bigabd cited). That is BS. We have free speech and open government in this country. It is way past time that the Congress declare the NCAA is a state actor and must give all student athletes basic rights like due process.
Mike B. (can't spell his name), Dez Bryant and now Tiny have all been treated worst than convicts. If I broke in your house and attacked your family the government would have to give me due process, they would have to charge me with a crime and address those charges in a timely manner. If I were poor, I would get representation. Not the NCAA. They do whatever they want and are accountable to no one.
The NCAA isn't even accountable to the member organizations any more because they are all afraid to stand against the NCAA for fear that their athletic department will break some silly rule and be found to lack institutional control. This is truly one the biggest injustices in our society and we all just sit back and let it continue.
I would love to see the internet fans pressure the politicians to mandate that the NCAA be treated as a state actor and required to make their records public, provide due process and give these student athletes a bill of rights. Millions are made off these children, they deserve to be treated fairly.
Dez Bryant was scared and unsure of the rules and the consequences of his actions so he denied having dinner with Deon Sanders. They took away his right to play football. For what? People can go on a soap box about lying but when humans are scared and don't know the consequences of their actions (particularly young humans) they often don't tell the truth or the whole truth.