Nebraska reports textbook violations to NCAA

So...not cars, or tatoos, or whatever else, these guys had the audacity to buy additional BOOKS...the nerve! I hope to God the NCAA comes down hard on these guys and puts an end to this blatant attempt at learning while in college.

this is stupid.

The real criminal is the entire NCAA system. They get millions upon millions in television broadcasting rights and millions more in trademarking their logos. The athletes don't see any of it directly. The students of the participating universities don't see it, many of them are not even allowed to use the exercise and training facilities on their own campus. It goes to pay enormous salaries to head coaches, with a much more obscene amount going to pad the golden parachutes of university executives. Meanwhile, the struggling college athlete who gets a career ending injury before making a dime professionally is screwed.

What a lame rule! Some local Nebraska charities will be happy, but this is hardly the scandal NCAA officials would have you believe. Free books? The horror!

I think the 28K should be put into scholarships for NON ATHLETE, in-state students.

A lot of these NCAA rules are beyond idiotic. I'm sure they were written with good intentions, but giving a kid a ride to the airport, or even a textbook, shouldn't be a serious violation ... they should probably be encouraged to a degree.

Th Hypocrisy is astounding. NCAA sports make as much as Pro Sports, the main difference is the "performers" don't get paid in college. "But they get a college education for free with a scholarship"...Please. Maybe that's the case for female athletes.

I had to read the entire NCAA rulebook when I hired an athlete for a paid spot at a school newspaper. When I suggested the hiring, the AD literally came over and advised me on what I could and couldn't do.

To be honest, the entire thing is confusing and half of it contradicts itself. I mean some of the violations are probably done without even knowing because it's not really clear.

If an athlete picks up a book in the forest but doesn't read it can he still be charged with an NCAA violation?

No reason to be upset from what I see at all. So some great books were delivered to help in education, and now a charity will get the same monetary amount given to them, so two groups of people benefit. A win/win situation. Better than a scandal with lies, accusations, and a cover-up like most things are, which hurts all that are involved.

The NCAA does it again ! I'm a professor and for various reasons recommend additional materials. Why, can't the scholarship cover those things ? No logical reason. It's just the rule.

Wait... Isnt a scholarship a free education? Classes, books, etc? What part of free education is illegal?

This is an NCAA-created issue. Please people, have you been to college before? Now think, when your professor says to get his/her book....as a student with any brains...you get it!!! I can't believe the NCAA rules/funds split "required" vs "professor-recommended" books.
Now, this being said, Nebraska did the right thing by doing what they did. NO further actions are needed...except by the NCAA to change THEIR stupid and illogic rule......and to respond to some people who think college athletes are stupid and don't read.....I suggest you look up the facts. Nebraska is #1 in NCAA Scholastic All-Americans. Enough said on this. As a former student and grad student there, I've seen it with my own eyes. Sports players practice hard and study....they're made to. I cannot help what other colleges do or don't do with their athletes, but Nebraska is ABOVE the rest of the nation on this.

What violation?
When was the last time you saw a college athlete reading a book?

The children must be protected from the dangers of reading, we should read tothem while they play video games.

"Nebraska acknowledged Tuesday that it distributed nearly $28,000 in textbooks and other school supplies to athletes from 2007-10, material that wasn't required." Everyone knows athletes don't need to read textbooks. Shame on them.

Tyrell Pryor made that in a month at OSU

It looks to me like they made an honest and understandable mistake, made good on it, and reported it. I think it shows integrity, and I don't think the school or the students deserve the cynicism I see being directed at them in some of these posts. Call me pollyanna, but I think when someone demonstrates honesty and does the right thing, you should give them credit.

This compensates for all the athletes who never open even one book and still get passing grades.

Oh, no! Not BOOKS! One of those poor jocks may actually learn to read...then what would we do??

the whole college sports things is the biggest racket in the world....I'd like to know what percentage of college atheletes can average above a 3rd grade level in any category...I'll never forget when o.j. simpson killed his wife and one of the big news stations in los angeles put a letter that o.j. had written up on the t.v. screen ....the letter looked as if it were written by a 6 year old who had just started to learn how to read and write...it was full of misspelled words and there was absolutely no uniformity in any of the letters...some big, some small ...it literally looked like a 6 year old had written the letter...o.j. "graduated" from USC ...you can't tell me that he was writing at what appeared to be a 3rd grade level and had even half of the brains required to graduate from USC...yet he somehow managed to graduate from a highly respected and accredited university...wow, a miracle!....those schools graduate the atheletes and they can't even read or write....of course I'm not saying that all of the atheletes are idiots who don't deserve a degree...but I'm saying that a large percentage of them are only there to bring in massive profits for the schools...every college athelete should be given tests by outside unbiased sources, and they should be required to pass at a certain level before they are allowed to play even one game...I'd be willing to bet that more than half of them would have to go back to elementary school based on their test results....the greedy colleges should be forced to put the money they make off of these atheletes into trust funds and give most of it to the atheletes and high schools where they came from...college sports do nothing more than sponge off of the talent that the atheletes have...they make billions in profit off of the atheletes, in spite of the fact that many of the athletes don't possess the knowledge needed to actually attend college and graduate...I'd go so far as to say it is atheletic enslavement...the NCAA and its rules are a big joke and college sports have taken advantage of minority groups for as long as I can remember...I refuse to even watch college sports because the entire thing sickens me