Ole Miss Football: It’s Time to Revolutionize the NCAA

Let us Re-design the Punishment’s for NCAA violations

Look, the NCAA has rules and the member institutions must follow them. However, the punishments handed out by the NCAA could be better.

First off, let us stop docking scholarships. I get you want to punish a school by limiting the amount of quality players they may sign, but you are also costing several kids the ability to play collegiate athletics.

Secondly, let us stop throwing bowl bans at recruiting violations, paying players should lower the urge for recruiting violations anyways. Not saying they would disappear entirely, that will never happen as long as humans have anything to do with recruiting.

Anyways, back to bowl bans. Use the ban for academic scandals and when programs are covering up actual crimes, see Baylor. I would be content with recruiting violations being used to increase a bowl ban’s length as it shows an increased pattern of behavior.

Many will say I only want to adjust bowl bans because I’m fan of Ole Miss, that is ridiculous. Ole Miss would still get a bowl ban, of length to be determined by the COI, under my suggestion.

Also, I’m going to rewrite the NCAA’s death penalty.There are other ways you can go after a program without inflicting the collateral damage that occurred at SMU when they received a death penalty.

New Punishments

The NCAA should focus more on punishing the rogue coaches, administrators, and boosters.

Keep the death penalty, just adjust who it targets. The NCAA currently can hand coaches a show-cause penalty, lets bump that up to a straight up ban. That’s right, ban coaches from coaching at any NCAA division for a set amount of time. The length would obviously differ on a case by case basis.

Next, let us add a lifetime coaching ban for coaches that are repeat offenders to breaking NCAA rules. The NCAA claims they want to target coaches and are for the players, well show us.

Force every booster to sign a contract with both the school and the NCAA saying they will not enter into any bribing of potential recruits. If they are found to breach the contract, fine them out the wazoo and obviously bar them from contact with any NCAA university in the future. It is extreme, but I bet it wouldn’t take much usage to get the point across.

Finally, force a school to terminate, with cause, any administrator found to have had knowledge of any wrongdoings, or if they did not do enough to promote compliance.

Let’s also have all member institutions agree to a new rule. We all know the NCAA is not a legal organization, so they currently can’t really drop the hammer on programs like Baylor football.  Let’s change that, get an agreement which allows for the NCAA to charge programs found to have covered up crime with Lack of Institutional Control, because well that’s what it is!

Coaches and administrators found to have contributed to the cover-up of widespread crime scandals should be banned from the NCAA for life. Art Briles should never coach again, he just shouldn’t. The man actively covered up RAPE.

Extra Ammunition

As an added way to guarantee a schools cooperation to these new punishments and standards, the NCAA would have the option to essentially beat them into submission.

Simply comply or else. Or else an indefinite bowl ban, heavy cumulative fines, and allowing athletes to transfer with no restrictions or year to sit out.  Schools would comply or they would have nothing left.

Additionally, once the school ends their fight the bowl ban should continue for one more season just because they decided to be hard-headed