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https://dev.ndnation.com/talking-to-myself/ The Independent Voice of Notre Dame Athletics Tue, 01 May 2018 13:22:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://dev.ndnation.com/talking-to-myself/#comment-17775 Fri, 27 Feb 2015 23:28:56 +0000 https://dev.ndnation.com/?p=5223#comment-17775 Freshman were not eligible when I was there from 54 to58. In basketball a team of scholarship players played a team of non scholarship players in the prelim game before the varsity game. Presumably the freshman practiced the same as the varsity although then space would have been a problem and the varsity could have used a Tommy Hawkins right off the bat. If making freshman ineligible were to eliminate the one and done, that would be a blessing in itself and would help to level the playing field. Perhaps forcing the one and done crowd to go elsewhere instead of pursuing an” education” and helping to level the playing field. Does anyone really think that those Kentucky kids are still going to classes this semester?

]]> https://dev.ndnation.com/talking-to-myself/#comment-17774 Fri, 27 Feb 2015 01:53:29 +0000 https://dev.ndnation.com/?p=5223#comment-17774 I have been saying for years that the NCAA should go back to the policy which was in place when I attended ND from 1959-1963. That is, if the NCAA is TRULY interested in stressing academics, which I am very skeptical about. Freshman in all sports were ineligible for competition against other schools. As a wrestler, I just practiced my freshman year which gave me the opportunity to focus on my studies. There is a huge adjustment coming from high school to college and I believe this one year of focusing on a student’s academic work allows him/her a great transitional period which helps stabilize and ground the student/athlete. Today, in many institutions, it is a joke to call athletes “student/athletes”. But of course, going back to this policy will probably never happen because, as we all know, there is too much money involved and too many special interests inherent in intercollegiate athletics now.

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