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Offseason: Matt Faiella suspended if SB makes the playoff
« on: February 09, 2012, 10:15:12 am »
Newsday released the following article. Its painful to see the power of the NCAA to control everything other than athletics. It amazes me how this allowed. They control the sports, the athletes, the family of the athletes, and everyone else involved. This has to end. You can't penalize an athlete for comments done on twitter.

http://www.newsday.com/sports/college/college-football/sbu-player-suspended-for-offensive-tweet-1.3515116
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Re: Offseason: Matt Faiella suspended if SB makes the playoff
« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2012, 10:19:39 am »
Much ado about absolutely nothing
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Re: Offseason: Matt Faiella suspended if SB makes the playoff
« Reply #2 on: February 09, 2012, 06:24:03 pm »
Personally, I think that Twitter, Facebook, etc is just a minefield for kids at this point.

I saw his comment, and it wasn't atrocious.  It was just a dumb thing to say.  The NCAA has shown that they do not tolerate this kind of thing (just ask Spadola of Lehigh).

I would not mind one bit if SBU told their athletes "No Twitter, No Facebook".
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Re: Offseason: Matt Faiella suspended if SB makes the playoff
« Reply #3 on: February 09, 2012, 08:30:35 pm »
Twitter abuse is what got former SBU running back Conte Cuttino kicked off his CFL team last year. Even the pros enforce it.
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Re: Offseason: Matt Faiella suspended if SB makes the playoff
« Reply #4 on: February 09, 2012, 08:43:05 pm »
Totally agree.  In fact ill go further and say its a minefield for adults too.   :-*
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Re: Offseason: Matt Faiella suspended if SB makes the playoff
« Reply #5 on: February 09, 2012, 09:57:59 pm »
Its not the NCAA business to control what Athletes say on their own time. Seriously? That should be left to the team to decide. The NCAA wants to control every aspect of the athletes life. That is not right. I would rather see Stony Brook suspending him that the NCAA doing that. C'mon guys?

Am I the only that thinks the NCAA is too damn powerful?
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Re: Offseason: Matt Faiella suspended if SB makes the playoff
« Reply #6 on: February 09, 2012, 10:20:31 pm »
Is it a one game suspension or is he suspended for the FCS playoffs in their entirety?
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Re: Offseason: Matt Faiella suspended if SB makes the playoff
« Reply #7 on: February 10, 2012, 02:43:08 pm »
one game. Its still wrong in my opinion. This "twitter" decisions should be left to the school, not the NCAA. There were not violations there... oh well...
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Re: Offseason: Matt Faiella suspended if SB makes the playoff
« Reply #8 on: February 11, 2012, 04:02:33 pm »
You can't let the school decide, because they will take care of themselves.

Look at what happened with Dickenson of Binghamton.  He blatantly punched a kid in the face unprovoked (his second insanely dirty play that week, so it wasn't an isolated incident).  The "punishment" the school handed down was that he was benched the next game.  For a total of 2 minutes and 18 seconds.  And that was a game between the two worst teams in one of the weakest basketball conferences.
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Re: Offseason: Matt Faiella suspended if SB makes the playoff
« Reply #9 on: February 17, 2012, 12:56:39 pm »
Jaghatai. There is a big difference between on-the-field violations and something said on twitter. On-field violations, unfair recruiting tactics, etc all involve the NCAA. A twitter comment made by a player as an individual shouldn't be regulated by the NCAA directly, it should be handled by the school...
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Re: Offseason: Matt Faiella suspended if SB makes the playoff
« Reply #10 on: February 17, 2012, 09:19:54 pm »
The NCAA feels that off-field violations are WORSE than on-field ones.  On-field can be described as "emotion" or "heat of the moment".  Off-field stuff is "premeditated".  I'm not agreeing with that, but from what we have seen, thats been their M.O.

Lets also face the fact the NCAA is fighting off a ton of black-eyes right now (Penn State, Ohio State, Cam Newton, Reggie Bush, etc).  They have tried letting schools handle discipline issue themselves, and it NEVER works.

I don't know how I feel about it.  Part of me thinks that this should be handled by the school, but I know any "off-field" things handled by a school will disappear without legitimate punishment.
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