DEREGULATION...WHEN THE NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association announced its intention to deregulate deregulate To reduce or eliminate control. One of the major forces in the financial markets in the 1970s and 1980s was the federal government's decision to deregulate interest rates. its two-ton Division I Manual of bylaws covering the conduct and management of its multibillion-dollar athletic operation, we felt like cheering. Certainly, you have to have rules, but not a billion of them on every minute facet of the sport. Nobody has enough fingers to stick into the holes in their dam every time it springs a leak. You wind up embarrassing yourself. The time for deregulation Deregulation The reduction or elimination of government power in a particular industry, usually enacted to create more competition within the industry. Notes: Traditional areas that have been deregulated are the telephone and airline industries. had clearly come, and we applaud the NCAA for its intelligence in seeing the light and beginning the awesome task of editing down its Division I Manual. It isn't going to be easy The Manual is over-run with petty nonsense and it's going to take an army of editors to clear away the fatuousness in the code. It is also going to take a lot of sensibility and judgment. For example, we believe that the NCAA's first major piece of deregulation -- amending the rule that reserved Fridays for high school football -- was a mistake. Why deregulate a rule that was working so well for high school football, college football, and pro football? It made no sense. To their everlasting credit, the first college organization to step up and say it was wrong was the American Football Coaches Association The American Football Coaches Association is an association of football coaches on all levels and is responsible for the Coaches Poll that determines the national champion each year. (AFCA AFCA American Football Coaches Association AFCA Air Force Communications Agency AFCA Area Fuel Consumption Allocation AFCA Antique Fan Collectors Association AFCA American Fan Collectors Association AfCA African Counselling Association ). Several other college associations likewise expressed their dismay at the deregulation. Confession: Until the NCAA News began running the deregulation of various bylaws, we had never seen the rules in print. We were stunned when we began reading some of the deregulations. The most underwhelming un·der·whelm tr.v. un·der·whelmed, un·der·whelm·ing, un·der·whelms To fail to excite, stimulate, or impress: piece of deregulation we have seen so far is the following: "(Institutions will be permitted) to provide expenses for a student-athlete and the student-athlete's teammates to be present in situations in which any family member of the student-athlete dies or suffers a life-threatening injury or illness, without restricting such expenses to a 100-mile radius from campus or requiring a preexisting pre·ex·ist or pre-ex·ist v. pre·ex·ist·ed, pre·ex·ist·ing, pre·ex·ists v.tr. To exist before (something); precede: Dinosaurs preexisted humans. v.intr. relationship between the teammates and the deceased or injured individual. Further, to permit a student to be present in a situation in which any individual close to the student-athlete dies or suffers a life-threatening injury or illness." Is it possible to read this paragraph without suffering a life-threatening headache? |
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