The Bloom debate
filed in Players on Aug.05, 2002
Allright apparently CU has to pick sides. Bloom or the NCAA?
Here’s the jist of it NCAA Bylaw 19.8 stipulates that if a student-athlete that is permitted to play via a court restraining order has his or her case reversed, the NCAA Management Council can require that the records of the athlete as well as the records of the team, in games in which the ineligible athlete played, be “vacated or stricken.”
The Management Council also has the authority to strike team victories, to penalize the school by preventing them from attending any number of NCAA championships and to access financial penalties, including the possible forfeiting of the school’s share of television revenue.
Jeremy Bloom is pretty upset about the whole thing.
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August 5th, 2002 on 11:45 am
I agree with Bloom that he is trying to follow the spirit of the law if not the letter. I also realize that big time college sports are a different beast, but is Natalie Portman banned from Harvard theater classes because she makes millions of off her movies? What about anyone in a Rock band studying music? Bloom is actually closer to the pure student athlete than most. He wants to play college football for the game itself and not as a tryout for the pros. The fact that he has other amazing things going on in his life shouldn’t preclude him from that.
I will also understand if the University decides not to let him play. It would be a HUGE risk and wouldn’t be fair to everyone else if we get our national championship negated because Bloom’s ruling got overturned.