FB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[devildog29]

dansand, I'm with you now that basketball season is over.  I guess as a Cubs fan as well, at least we have something until the summer when we start our annual June swoon.  I guess only a little over 4 months left until doubles start.  Is there any recruiting news out there on the football front?  Do my Titans have any chance of bringing any respecability back to the program?    After taking off my pads for the last time and winning 2 CCIW championships and 2 2nd place finishes in my 4 years there, I would never have imagined the lengths we would fall.  Hopefully, we can get some athletes in again and restore some dedication back to the program.

[79jaybird]

Devildog,  I don't see IWU going down easily and just "fading away".  I think they are going through a tough time, but like any cycle, they will rise again.
Recruiting-- At Elmhurst I have heard good reports and the best news, that they are recruiting primarily in the Chicago Area.  When I played at EC, heavy recruiting was done in Florida, which I could never understand.

[Red Reign]

So how is spring football going around the conference??

North Central gets to have 10 full pad practices in the spring, this might give the cards the edge they didn't have last year.

[zorbadagreek]

Whats the max amount of practices the schools at the d3 level can take? Do the cciw schools take full advantage of the number of practices??

[augiedogie]

On Fox News tonight there was a quick story that Tom Zibokowski, a MSL grad from Buffalo Grove HS, and starting safety for Notre Dame is starting his professional boxing career this June. I believe he still has 1 year of eligibility left, would this cause him to not be able to play for ND this fall? 

[augiedogie]

You can't forget about the practices w/o a ball. I still don't really understand that concept. Could somebody please explain it.  Thanks.

[lakeshore]

is North Central going to Europe?

[Red Reign]

You can't forget about the practices w/o a ball. I still don't really understand that concept. Could somebody please explain it.  Thanks.

I'm not sure but I think you allowed to use a ball the entire spring practice

[Red Reign]

is North Central going to Europe?

Yes, to Italy i believe the first or second week of june

[devildog29]

augiedogie, about the ND safety starting his professional boxing career, a student athlete can be a professional athlete in one sport and still retain college eligibility in another sport as long as the athlete does not do any product endorsements.  The USA Today talks about this in today's paper.  So, he can promote his fight, but he cannot promote any commercial product along with the fight.  This is why the Bloom kid in Colorado was not allowed to take his sponsorships.  The NCAA would allow him to ski professionally and still play football, but because he needed the product endorsements to fund his skiing, they NCAA said those endorsements would make him ineligible, but not the skiing in and of itself.

[augiedogie]

Thanks for the clarification devildog. I had thought that once they had turned professional and received money they would lose their eligibility.  It doesn't make sense that a kid can go pro in another sport and make money, but they can't accept money or clothing etc as a gift.

[Mr. Ypsi]

devildog,

I believe you have pegged it exactly on the NCAA stance.  But that is the problem - Bloom did not in any way promote Colorado Football (or even Colorado OR football). 

In what conceivable way did he violate the SPIRIT of the NCAA?  He is a skier who was paid to promore skiing products - how, exactly, does that tie in to his wanting to try football?!

Yet again, the NCAA confuses 'spirit of the rules' [i.e., reason for the rules] with 'letter of the rules'.  Yet again, the NCAA (an absolutely necessay organization!) makes themselves look like asses.

[devildog29]

I don't think it necessarily makes much sense either, but that's what the collective brilliance of the NCAA has come up with.  I guess you can receive money to play sports as long as you don't receive money to play the particular sport you want to retain eligibility in.  As for the commercial endorsements, the thinking must be that advertisements can cross sport lines.  Perhaps they are thinking that if a guy does a Gatorade commercial, that product could be an ad for skiing or football, which crosses the line.  I don't know how taking a sponsorship from K2 or Atomic skis has anything to do with football, but they must have decided to just eliminate all endorsements to make life easier on themselves.  After all, we are talking about the organization that said if an athlete is on scholarship, he or she is not allowed to earn more than some paltry amount of income each year (wasn't it somewhere around $3000 or $4000?) through outside employment.  Then, they were aghast when they found out college athletes were supplimenting their income under the table through boosters because a few thousand dollars was not enough to live on through the year.  So who knows exactly how they arrive at the decisions they do.

[Red Reign]

Bad News for NCC, from what I hear, Tyke Spencer was shut down my the NCAA for another year.

[robertgoulet]

that's too bad, i really enjoyed watching him play. ncc still has a good crop of recievers coming back tho.