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Disturbing piece on BigSoccer.com about the NCAA possibly eliminating spring soccer competitions. Read here

Meanwhile, most schools have locker rooms full of basketball and football players who can’t spell “cat” if you spot them the C and the A. No word on what’s being done to boost their academic performance, although I’m betting that hookers and coke will be involved.

I do believe Lisa is not too crazy about this

I stopped reading after this sentence: Purportedly, they feel that those sports are causing serious academic harm to their players,

No reason to read something that stupid after that

The NCAA is not only being inconsistent but absurd as well. I can't imagine why this topic would even come up for discussion in whatever NCAA meeting produced it. I can only speak for my daughter and her teammates but I know they are doing very well in school with several making Dean's Lists as well as All-SEC Academics honors, etc with most of these girls in majors such as Logistics, Kinesiology, Biology, Animal Sciences, Nursing, Engineering, Communications, Business, etc, i.e. legitimate degrees. I am pretty sure I could not say this same thing for most football programs.
I suspect the Women's AD's and coaches from the big schools will put the kybosh on this pretty quick. I hope so.

Someone at NCAA has too much time on his/her hands. Cross Country? I think Spring Cross Country training at most schools is known as being a member of the Track team. Which begs the question, if participation in off-season non-competitive training is detrimental to academic performance then what of participation in in-season competitive training for multiple sports?

NCAA already has positive support for academic performance in place... if performance in the classroom isn't maintained at a certain level, the player is declared academically ineligible to play. This proposed change appears to be based more on academic finances than academic performance.