Friday, April 25, 2014
Mark Emmert agrees that NCAA rule about food was 'absurd' - ESPN
Singularly, I'm sure they are all well-intended; however, cumulatively, they seem insidiously counterproductive, and possibly destructive...
On ESPN's website, Darren Rovell writes about the NCAA and food rules:
"NCAA president Mark Emmert said Friday that he was happy to take pressure off his organization and its member schools as the governing body's legislative council voted earlier this week to eliminate all previous restrictions on food for athletes.
'The biggest problem was, the NCAA has historically had all kinds of, I don't know how to describe it [except to say] dumb rules about food,' Emmert said on ESPN Radio's 'Mike & Mike' show. "The infamous one is you can provide between meals a snack, but you can't provide a meal. Well, then you got to define what's the difference between a snack and a meal? So it was literally the case that a bagel was defined as a snack -- unless you put cream cheese on it. Now it becomes a meal. That's absurd.""
