Mike & Mike had NCAA President Mark Emmert on their program Friday morning. As part of the interview, the show’s Twitter account asked fans to tweet in their own questions to Emmert by using the hashtag #AskEmmert.
#NCAA head Mark Emmert will join us in studio at 8 ET. Have any questions? Send them with #AskEmmert pic.twitter.com/2G3zqHEnXn
— UNSPORTSMANLIKE Radio (@UnSportsESPN) April 18, 2014
What could go wrong?
What could possibly go wrong?
As always, these are Real Tweets from Real People….
https://twitter.com/tyduffy/status/457147527658496000
#AskEmmert I once gave a football player some gum in my class. Who do I contact to have his scholarship revoked?
— vincep (@vgp100) April 18, 2014
can you even tie your own shoes? or do you rock velcro? #AskEmmert
— Macy G. (@MacyGolder) April 18, 2014
#AskEmmert Is the NCAA one of those non-profits where 98% of the income goes to overhead and the remaining pennies help college students?
— LSAClassOf2000 (@LorneEC3) April 18, 2014
#askemmert is this a cyst?
— Tim Fletcher (@FletcherShow) April 18, 2014
https://twitter.com/runofplay/status/457135883163283456
#askemmert hey, if it’s about education, and the presidents threaten to go to d3…like, what’s the big deal? oh yeah, YOUR money.
— bomani (@bomani_jones) April 18, 2014
https://twitter.com/bigbang425/status/457113352494645248
https://twitter.com/hungryuncle/status/457146636880183298
#AskEmmert hey mark how do you sleep at night
— 🗣 (@DavidTweeted3) April 18, 2014
#AskEmmert Did you fly on a private jet to explain why the NCAA can't afford to give athletes more than a scholarship?
— Fish'N'Chips Freddie (@SDY292) April 18, 2014
#AskEmmert Biggie or Tupac?
— Terry TB Brown™️ (@TBrown_80) April 18, 2014
https://twitter.com/LordBigHorn/status/457149850597867522
https://twitter.com/EasyBuckets5/status/457149765273522176
The #AskEmmert hashtag was largely fun and games – a social media campaign hijacked like so many other social media campaigns. If Mike & Mike thought #AskEmmert would deliver a few friendly, thoughtful questions and not a hilarious/raunchy/damning countrwide trending topic, they were badly mistaken.
And if you thought that was some not-so-good publicity for the NCAA and its President, that was nothing compared to what actually happened when he opened up his wordhole and began to speak. It’t not a good thing for your organization when one of the worst things you can do is allow your President to speak in public.
One would think Emmert would address all the concerns that face his organization with some sense of gravitas. Again, wrong. Emmert made flippant remarks about paying CFL players and student-athletes taking spots away from other students that paid to go to college.
That’s right, the head of the NCAA, the National Collegiate ATHLETIC Association put down student athletes on national radio.
"If I can hire someone to play football for me why would I hire an 18 year old? Why not someone who plays in the CFL?" Emmert on unions
— UNSPORTSMANLIKE Radio (@UnSportsESPN) April 18, 2014
NCAA President says athletes are "taking seats from a paying student." Wow.
— Jay Bilas (@JayBilas) April 18, 2014
We tried to reach out to the head of the NCAA’s public relations department about Emmert’s comments, but they were rejecting all questions at this time.
Emmert will appear on The Dan Patrick Show Monday morning. Maybe this time he’ll answer some of those #AskEmmert questions he missed this morning.
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