04/20/24
June 03, 2005
NCAA restores Georgia scholarships: As part of rules violation sanctions, NCAA had stripped Georgia basketball of three scholarships. It now has restored those scholarships. However, the question I have is why is stripping scholarships even considered as part of a sanction. These are supposed to be student-athletes, some of whom may need scholarships just to attend. Why not make the university award additional non-athletic scholarships instead?
posted by graymatters to basketball at 02:54 PM - 2 comments
One of the reasons they got them back was because of self-imposed sanctions such as pulling out of the NCAA tourney the year all the crap went down. Don't be fooled: The admins at UGA didn't do it because they felt sorry for what happened or something, but rather to hopefully lessen the infractions in the long run. Plus, I have a gut feeling that it was done b/c the admins felt if we chastized our basketball team, it would lessen the chances of a full-fledged investigation into other sports such as football. I also go to UGA, and this was a HUGE deal back in the time here. Our team was pretty stacked that year (Jarvis Hayes and a slew of role-players who knew their roles) and we had hopes of doing some damage. Then, you had last year when the team blew monkey chunks. Oh well, I'm not bitter at the administration...
posted by jmd82 at 11:10 AM on June 04, 2005
I don't know why they restored those scholarships, it seemed like Georgia and Harrick were breaking NCAA rules in pretty serious ways. As to why they take scholarships, that is because it is detrimental to a program to not be able to give scholarships. Players will choose a different program if you don't have a scholarship for them. If you just made them give more scholarships, big Div-I schools would have no problem putting up that money & it wouldn't really be an effective punishment.