The women’s basketball program at the University of Connecticut got slapped with an NCAA violation this week because head coach Geno Auriemma called Mo’ne Davis to congratulate her on the success during the Little League World Series (LLWS) last month.
“I heard about that this morning, and it’s sad,” Davis, 13, said Friday to ESPN. “There wasn’t anything about recruiting in the call, he was just congratulating me.”
Davis, who is also a basketball player, had mentioned that she had wanted to play collegiate basketball at UConn.
In reality, this is really absurd.
I can understand if coach Auriemma was calling to try and make a pitch that she should play at Connecticut when she finishes high school.
But he was not trying to recruit her.
All he did was call to congratulate her, that was it.
Of course, another school, who is a competitor of UConn was so paronoid that they made a complaint to the American Athletic Conference about Auriemma contacting Davis to congratulate her during the LLWS.
From there, the conference reported it to the NCAA and then just to make themselves feel important, they concluded that it was a secondary violation.
What this shows is that the rules of the NCAA is so overblown that it really needs a makeover.
Hopefully in the future, the board of governors or whatever hierarchy in the NCAA, will make changes to these byzantine rules.
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Cheval John founded Vallano Media to close the gap between elite strategic thinking and the small businesses that need it most.
Operating at the intersection of social media management and sports, he is building a dual-pillar brand that does two things: deliver real growth for businesses and translate the sports strategies into practical business lessons.
Cheval hosted "What's The Word?" a podcast about finding out what inspires people to choose their respective careers and how social media impacted their lives and business from 2013 to 2017.
He has spoken at Social Media Week Lima in Ohio and at Social Media Day Houston 2017.
He was named a Houston Top 25 Social Media Power Influencer (2016 and 2017) and Twitter (Now X)Top 50 Influencer by Onalytica in 2018.
NCAA Needs To Get A Life
By Cheval John
The women’s basketball program at the University of Connecticut got slapped with an NCAA violation this week because head coach Geno Auriemma called Mo’ne Davis to congratulate her on the success during the Little League World Series (LLWS) last month.
“I heard about that this morning, and it’s sad,” Davis, 13, said Friday to ESPN. “There wasn’t anything about recruiting in the call, he was just congratulating me.”
Davis, who is also a basketball player, had mentioned that she had wanted to play collegiate basketball at UConn.
In reality, this is really absurd.
I can understand if coach Auriemma was calling to try and make a pitch that she should play at Connecticut when she finishes high school.
But he was not trying to recruit her.
All he did was call to congratulate her, that was it.
Of course, another school, who is a competitor of UConn was so paronoid that they made a complaint to the American Athletic Conference about Auriemma contacting Davis to congratulate her during the LLWS.
From there, the conference reported it to the NCAA and then just to make themselves feel important, they concluded that it was a secondary violation.
What this shows is that the rules of the NCAA is so overblown that it really needs a makeover.
Hopefully in the future, the board of governors or whatever hierarchy in the NCAA, will make changes to these byzantine rules.
All I got to say to the NCAA, “Get a life.”
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Cheval John founded Vallano Media to close the gap between elite strategic thinking and the small businesses that need it most. Operating at the intersection of social media management and sports, he is building a dual-pillar brand that does two things: deliver real growth for businesses and translate the sports strategies into practical business lessons. Cheval hosted "What's The Word?" a podcast about finding out what inspires people to choose their respective careers and how social media impacted their lives and business from 2013 to 2017. He has spoken at Social Media Week Lima in Ohio and at Social Media Day Houston 2017. He was named a Houston Top 25 Social Media Power Influencer (2016 and 2017) and Twitter (Now X)Top 50 Influencer by Onalytica in 2018.