Comments for 8 DI teams hit with postseason play bans at http://www.theind.com , comment 1 to 6 out of 6 comments http://www.theind.com Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:01:53 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/8382-8-di-teams-hit-with-postseason-play-bans#comment-19250 We do have too many colleges in this state and the ones that are not functing like Southern merge with LSU. Then we have Grambling and Monroe. Louisiana Tech is a good school! we should merge Grambling and monroe and you would have one big unversity LOUISIANA TECH with usage of the properties. One football team and the same in other sports. This is 2011, the past is just not working and I am tired of prejudice black people. I know what I say is tough, but it is the truth. - Ronald Chriceol Thu, 30 Jun 2011 17:20:12 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/8382-8-di-teams-hit-with-postseason-play-bans#comment-18126 College athletics is a waste of time, money, and other resources. Universities ought to exist solely to educate, not to entertain (which is all big-money college sports really is -- entertainment). - Farrow Thu, 26 May 2011 21:47:29 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/8382-8-di-teams-hit-with-postseason-play-bans#comment-18109 The is not an issue of "Jindal VS US". I'm not a supporter of Bobby Jindal, however, in this particular case, blaming Jindal for this problem is blatantly wrong/wrong/wrong. The remedy to this situation is really quiet simple and would not require expenditure of any money. Make the athletic department(s) responsible for the academic success of the student athletes. This could be accomplished by making the athletic administrators, coaches, and assistant coaches compenstaton contingent upon the academic performance of the athletes. Clauses of this nature are embedded in current contracts with respect to winning conference championships or bring a team to a bowl game, pay bonuses are awarded. Then, conversely, clauses could be entered into athletic contracts reducing bonuses or even reducing the contracted rate of pay if the athletes under a programs supervision fail to perform to the academic standard established by the NCAA. Trust me, when the administrators, coaches, etc., in an athletic department realize an athlete(s) is not performing to the NCAA academic standards and such will effect their take home pay, those administrators will make sure the athlete will either hit the books or hit the road. It is such a simple fix and little if any money is needed. - RODEOCLOWN Thu, 26 May 2011 15:35:16 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/8382-8-di-teams-hit-with-postseason-play-bans#comment-18107 Strictly political motives keep those 3 school open. As we saw when Gov. Jindal tried to merge UNO and SUNO, democrats came ungluede and stopped this. Jindal tried Demos stopped. Grambling, LA Tech and ULM should be merged also and Southern should be part of LSU. Let Jindal try this and see the fallout. Everyother state university had the same cuts yet their athletes managed to meet the academic requirements. This is not a funding problem but a cultural problem. - Poprouge Thu, 26 May 2011 13:57:45 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/8382-8-di-teams-hit-with-postseason-play-bans#comment-18098 Dan McDonald must not subscribe to the philosophy that it is the job of adult student athletes and adult coaches to make sure the athletes pass the necessary classes. No amount of money is going to force legal adults to attend class and study. - USL Thu, 26 May 2011 11:54:53 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/8382-8-di-teams-hit-with-postseason-play-bans#comment-18097 This is more about coaches and athletes not understanding why they are at a university. Cuts to higher education have absolutely no effect on coaches allowing athletes time to study, or athletes making use of the good old-fashioned library to study. As a poor, ill-prepared cadet named Stonewall Jackson once said while at West Point, "You may be whatever you resolve to be." What's missing is the resolve, not the money. - yesidoknow Thu, 26 May 2011 11:20:48 +0100