It seems a reverse of the situation the NCAA outlawed regarding "athletic dorms"....the NCAA said, essentially, that universities couldn't provide such things for athletes that were not provided for students in general.
Now, I personally believe the NCAA went off the reservation on that one, as what "the general student" gets is none of their business.....PLUS, by outlawing "athletic dorms", coaches were stuck with trying even harder to enforce the 10,000 "don'ts" of the NCAA, but without the very dorms that helped allow them to maintain some order and discipline.....I know, for example, that at one time AU coaches used to take the football team out of town the Friday before home games, but only for "big" home games.........Now, CTT does it for most every home game, as a way of keeping his players together and out of trouble (among other reasons, such as concentration) the night before a game, since players are living all over campus.
So, it seems to me that if the NCAA has laid down the policy of athlete-student/general student "equality", then it is an unequal situation for a university to require class attendance for student athletes, when it does not for general students.
The question is not the relevance of having a University policy that requires student athletes to attend class... the question is, should a University dictate such a policy when there is no policy and no plans for a policy for the student body in general and scholarship students in particular?
Forget the football team. That isn't the issue. Fulmer has his own class attendance policy... the question was whether or not the University should have a different policy for student athletes than they do for non student athletes.
