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“I think CARA activities could be increased to 25 hours and you eliminate voluntary activities all together.”

“Please do not increase CARA hours … we are already moving to a ‘semi-pro' model in collegiate athletics, and increasing the hours would (solidify) that and take away from our educational opportunities.”

“Coaches (nowadays) have brainwashed their (athletes) into ‘Mandatory/Voluntary' and (athletes) are scared to come forward and inform compliance office of violations.”

“Student-athletes spend 40-60 hrs/week with their sport, which is confusing to them when we tell them they are limited to 20 hrs/week … and they can't keep track of what counts as CARA and what doesn't. All they know (is) that they are spending HUGE amounts of time with their sport, and they don't have time for school work or anything that integrates them into the normal student college experience.”

“If a student-athlete wants to voluntarily spend more time with a coach, this should be allowed. The college experience is too short and the influence a great coach can have on the future of an athlete should never be underestimated.”

“In turn, we need to lengthen the periods of time where coaches may NOT be involved in the student-athlete's time on campus, e.g., where they can be NORMAL HUMAN BEINGS. They train as much as they want, but not in any fashion organized by the coaches. We are not a minor league for the pro sports, but that is how we currently run our organization.”

SDHornet wrote:Meh. 60 hours a week is only 8.5 hours a day. Mind you at most schools athletes can get their academics/assignments/tests from tutors if/when needed.

I had 2 sisters get full rides for T&F, never once did they ever have an issue balancing academic/athletic schedules. Now granted during the peak time of their season's they didn't have much social life aside from what came with hanging out with team members, but that is the trade off for a free degree.

Mvemjsunpx wrote:

SDHornet wrote:Meh. 60 hours a week is only 8.5 hours a day. Mind you at most schools athletes can get their academics/assignments/tests from tutors if/when needed.

I had 2 sisters get full rides for T&F, never once did they ever have an issue balancing academic/athletic schedules. Now granted during the peak time of their season's they didn't have much social life aside from what came with hanging out with team members, but that is the trade off for a free degree.

Right, but I think the bigger concern is that this could become an unregulated arms race where the amount of "voluntary" workout, etc., time keeps increasing with no end in sight. Kind of like what could happen with legalized COA payments.

SACCAT wrote:Poor College Athletes and their lack of Fun....

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The first change gives student-athletes a 10-hour window of no athletic activity following their return from a road trip. The second requires a two-week recovery period with no allowable team athletic activity upon the completion of the team's final contest of the season.

“We have a long history of regulating time demands beyond what the NCAA requires, and we’ve been paying attention to the conversation about these issues the past couple of years,” said Robin Harris, executive director of the Ivy League. “Our athletic directors just asked themselves, ‘Why can’t we just do this?’ The answer was, ‘Of course we can do this.’ We hope that it shows that this is not that hard.”

The Ivy League -- whose members include Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Princeton and Yale Universities, Dartmouth College, and the University of Pennsylvania -- has long beaten the NCAA to the punch on issues of athlete welfare in Division I, the associations' most competitive level.