(Source) - After tons of public pressure and negative media attention, the NCAA has reversed its stance and will allow BYU runner Jared Ward to compete for his senior season. Good job, everyone!
Ward, one of the country's top runners, was declared ineligible because he took part in a costume-optional fun run in 2009, a few months before enrolling at BYU. The NCAA considered that a competitive advantage for Ward, even though he had spent two years not competing because he was doing LDS mission work. Two BYU appeals were unsuccessful, but when the Deseret News featured Ward's story last week, it was only a matter of time before the NCAA caved to public opinion.
This morning the NCAA overturned its ruling and declared Ward eligible to run starting immediately. He'll compete in the NCAA regionals on Friday, and the championships next week—sadly, that's all that's left of his season.
Poor fucking NCAA. Literally they can feel their entire empire crumbling beneath their feet as their pockets get lighter by the day, their hearts beginning to get heavy. What do they even do anymore? The big money maker football basically just said "go fuck yourself" because they don't need the NCAA and they fucking know it. So now what's a collegiate athletic organization to do? Oh, shit I know! We should just start going around to the boring sports and sanction the fuck out of them so they know who's boss. Oh snap, turns out people are completely and utterly fed up with you profiteering off of children with a bunch of bullshit sanctions and regulations and they're going to murder you anytime you ever do anything stupid. Which, at this point, basically seems like it happens every couple of weeks.
I'm not even mad at the NCAA, honestly at this point I really do just feel bad for them. Basically just hustled their way into millions under the facade of educational advancement and got to shovel straight cash into their pockets for years. Now they just sit around picking on the nerds. It's like in grade school when two bigger kids would fight and the one would get his ass kicked and then he basically became the object of ridicule for the whole grade, total loser. Then he realized the only way he could be a hardass was if it was by picking on little band geeks and mathletes, calling them "Four Eyes" and tons of clever shit like that. That's pretty much where the NCAA is at now. These kids might even be below band people as far as "folks I'd like to hang out with goes." Gun to my head I'm definitely partying with the Ohio State marching band over some Mormon runner. How would that conversation even go?
Jared Ward: I happen to be training for a Triathlon right now. Doin' a lot of running, and cycling, swimming. Well you know all about that.
Me: No, actually I don't. I play real sports. Not trying to be the best at exercising.
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