NCAA to bloggers: Don't post too often

[Capper]

The NCAA this week announced a formal program limiting how often bloggers with media credentials can update their blog while attending championship college events.
The sports governing body set blogging limits for each sport. For example, those at football games can update their blogs three times per quarter and once at halftime. For basketball, bloggers can post five times per half, once at halftime and twice per overtime period.
The policy even sets rules for water polo (three per quarter, once at halftime), bowling (10 blog posts per session) and fencing (10 per session).
The move is already garnering the predicted outrage. It reminds me of the music industry trying to hold on desperately to old business models in a fundamentally new era.
This isn't the first time the NCAA has butted heads with the blogosphere. In June, a sportswriter from the Louisville, Ky. Courier-Journal was ejected from a college baseball game for, you guessed it, blogging. Indeed, I'm sure there are folks at the NCAA that see its latest efforts as a reasoned compromise, but I think it just shows how out of touch they are.
If I were the NCAA and there was someone passionate enough to deliver a blow-by-blow account of a college fencing match, I'd want to encourage that, maybe even buy them a non-alcoholic beer.
For those who want to check out the guidelines for themselves, the rules are posted in a PDF file on the NCAA's Web site.

NCAA to bloggers: Don't post too often

[Panda Man]

I'd like to ask one question: Why.

I don't see why this would cause such an issue, and quite frankly I don't know how they can actually stop them.

[screwballl]

as any account or transcript of the game is property of NCAA, they can cut off all reporters if they wanted to...

[Capper]

Yes, that is all good and fine when it comes tp professional sports (even though I hate it).....but isn't college about education? It sure seems that the NCAA somewhere along the lines forgot this.....and that maybe, instead of paying asshole professors embarrassing amounts of money to fill our kid's heads with garbage (ward Churchill).....why don't they use some of this money they make from college bowl games, tournaments, and endorsements (Nike anyone?) to make college a lot more affordable for our kids.

Bottom line, the NCAA should be a non profit, and shouldn't be so hung up on making money.

[onebxr]

or pay the players instead of having the booster club do all of the work.

[Capper]

Why not use some of this money the schools make to set up a financial aid system thats much better than the ones they have? Why not give each school a slice of the money generated, and have them either cut the costs of tuition and books, or feed the kids in the cafeteria?


People are getting rich off this system, and no one should be getting rich off the educational system.

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[screwballl]

good stuff... I already had a nomination to be president as well
Write me in!! :laugh