What a huge day for Abilene Christian University and its alumni. We want to hear your thoughts on the major announcement by the NCAA. Does it change your outlook on the school? Do you think what the university is accused of doing is really that big of a deal? How do you feel about ACU's response to the matter?This is the place to sound off! Post your comments in the area below. We want to hear from you!
To be honest, I'm shocked and appalled! Who would've guessed? It's a shame on our fine city.
ReplyDeleteThis was originally shocking but it sounds to me like some mistakes were made out of sincere concern for students. This is actually a common problem for track programs at other schools because so many of the students involved are international. It is a shame that this occurred so, hopefully, the administration will be more aware in future circumstances involving international athletes.
ReplyDeleteDoes this really surprise anyone?
ReplyDeleteI think it's awful...yes, it might have happened out of "concern" for students, but ACU is a Christian school and everyway they opperate should be in a manner that is in accoardance to that. During my time at ACU and there after, I'm finding that more often the administration doesn't always live up to it's name...and yes Jessica this SHOULD surprise peopel...do we really want to live in a world were people who claim to be on fire for Christ are just as willing as the next person to break the rules?
ReplyDeleteLetting the track athletes live on campus and giving them shoes before they were officially students was wrong....the gifts from church members to international athletes was really no big deal in my eyes. I still don't understand why the football team was penalized....did the coaches do something I'm not aware of?
ReplyDeleteThis has nothing to do with the christian faith of the university. People make mistakes, no one is perfect, as a Christian you should know that. ACU came forward and said that they made a mistake, they cooperated, and they have publically confessed. I really don't see where this diturbs the reputation of the school. ACU and all schools are caught in a hard place when dealing with international student-athletes. I do not think that you understand that some of these kids have esdaped genocide from Rwanda. They came to ACU with NOTHING! If you seriously think that providing some help to somebody who has never had an extra set of clothes, or a steady supply of drinkable water, or a roof over their head before arriving here is UNCHRISTIAN, then you my friend are of great saddness to me. That considered, they broke the rules. They self-regulated themselves and came out (no one outside the ACU Athletic Community came out with allegations, ACU told on themselves). They recieved their punishment and have handled the incident in a professional and CHRISTIAN like manner. These incidents are reported and secondary incidents (nothing major at all) by the NCAA. There is too big of deal being made here, these sanctions happen everywhere. ACU just found itself between a rock and hard place, nobody is destroyed and everything is fine. Relax.
ReplyDeleteI'd be willing to go as far as to say that some of the actions were Christian in nature, if it were not for the NCAA rules. People do not understand the difficulty of being both Christian and a University or Christian and an Athletic department. There are two separate sets of standards that govern: Christian and NCAA. Would it really bother us that a coach that happened to coach a player trying to come to acu provided a computer so said student could do his homework? If the student doesn't have immediate access to a computer and this friend is the easiest way to one, i'd say a christian would provide the computer, help mailing, ect. What if the international student received shoes before coming here because he didn't have any. There are students i know here that came to school with nothing. I know that's hypothetical, but i believe that there's some truth to the difficulty of "serving two masters." Rules are rules and I don't believe Christians get a free ticket to break rules if the disagree, but its just another way to look at the situation before you decide to crucify an entire university.
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