.... Consider Michigan State's basketball schedule, just this month:

Summoned by ESPN money to play Arizona on ESPN in Hawaii, this past Friday, Michigan State's student-athletes many on full scholarships as minimal academic qualifiers missed at least three days of classes.

Then, from the middle of the Pacific Ocean, it was back on an airplane to fly all day and night to New York to play Kentucky again at ESPN's purchased request Tuesday night in The Garden.

Then it was back in the airplane and back to East Lansing, but only long enough to play two games in three nights, versus Mississippi Valley State on Friday, then against Florida Gulf Coast on Sunday night.

Then it's back on the airplane and off to the Bahamas to play three games in three days within a tournament on and for ESPN, beginning Wednesday.

Finally, it's back on the airplane to fly back to the States North Carolina to play in ESPN's "ACC/Big 10 Challenge," at Duke on Nov. 29 (a Tuesday), starting at 9:30 p.m., before flying back to Michigan.....


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I really despise Mark Emmert. The guy is a phony.

Student athletes. Yeah, right...

Seems like Michigan State had a say in their own out-of-conference schedule, no? ESPN may have offered monetary enticement, but doesn't the AD decide who the team plays and when?

Yeah. michigan state's AD could have said no.

So by the time they finish they have about 2 weeks till the end of final in their semester based system. A joke.

https://reg.msu.edu/roinfo/calendar/academic.aspx

BTW - probably why Coach K's (I think) call for making the sport a one semester sport is really smart. Start after winter finals. Maybe provide limited practices prior to December 15. March Madness might become May Madness but that is "OK"