My roommate was an NCAA basketball player. A big part of his job on the team was to pass drug tests, since there were a number of other players that couldn't. And, if they want to get Masoli on their drug stuff, then fine, announce that they are suspending him, and the other dude that was in the car with him for X amount of games or X months.

The problem I have with this whole thing is that the NCAA is pursuing a complete double standard here. They treat these infractions as jokes all the time, and then when there's this highly public case, they are all the sudden going to be hard asses. And to me, the worst thing is they aren't even really being hard asses, they're just being bureaucratic dipshits and chickening out from actually punishing someone by simply denying a request. They should nut up and either approve the transfer, or actually punish him, not this stupid in between crap that they're trying to do right now.

The NCAA across the board makes me sick. They remind me a lot of the old USOC. A bureaucratic joke that should be thrown to the wayside for a system that might actually do something for athletes and their sports once in a while. They need to get rid of all this stupid guessing about what will happen, and if a player will get to play, and when a player will get to play, establish standard punishments, and then stick to them.

I mean...I'm fine with punishing Masoli, the guy has messed up, and there should be consequences, but this isn't punishment, it's just stupid paper shuffling.

Bleh, I'm done. On some levels I do agree with what you're saying, I'm more bothered by the way the NCAA is handling his case in comparison to other athletes than anything.