12/21/2023 0 Comments Big ten playoff game time 2018![]() This was a press release statement from Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel on Saturday morning: “All of the Head Coaches in the Big Ten … and my Big Ten AD colleagues can rejoice today that someone was ‘held accountable,’ but they should be worried about the new standard of judgment (without complete investigation) that has been unleashed in this conference.” The NCAA eventually relented, citing a new piece of information from UNC. UNC’s comments led to violent threats toward committee members making the decision. It’s supposed to be hard, and it will always be hard. Building something, fixing it and holding it up is hard. It’s never been more popular to want to burn everything down, to create a pressure campaign to reverse a decision, to attack institutions. Because if we continue down this road where we keep chipping away at the legitimacy of authority and no one respects the rules, we’ll end up in a sports world with even more problems. It’s really about defending the purpose of rules and respecting the greater institutions. That’s right, this is a column defending the NCAA. Do you watch this play out and trust a conference to completely govern itself? Or do you trust SEC and Big Ten schools working together on rules when their leagues couldn’t even agree to play football in 2020? I sure don’t.īecause if you leave the NCAA or your conference to make something new, you’re going to have to create the same thing. ![]()
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