NCAA has outdone itself
Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 11:55 am
This seriously is not from The Onion, even though that's the only logical explanation for this.
http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story ... ashing-car
http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story ... ashing-car
The NCAA has had some REALLY dumb sanctions. But, penalizing a student for using water that she didn't pay for to wash her car? Really? Better ban all student athletes from using drinking fountains too unless they put a quarter in first. This is just absurd.A member of a women's golf team at a West Coast Conference school has been sanctioned by the NCAA for washing her car on campus, according to University of Portland basketball coach Eric Reveno.
Reveno tweeted about the violation Wednesday after he learned of it during conference meetings, culminating his message with the hashtag #stopinsanity.
"Just heard about two NCAA violations in WCC. 1) athlete using Univ. water to wash car, 2) coach text recruit 'who is this?'" Reveno wrote.
The WCC school in question self-reported the extra benefits violation to the NCAA, Yahoo Sports! reported. Yahoo also reported the NCAA asked the golfer to pay the school $20, which they said was the value of the water and hose.