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Streaming Sports Network Canada Username Password Login Games Leagues Teams Venues Hockey Football Basketball Soccer Volleyball Blogs Neates take Editorializing Bar has to be set higher after Bisons boondoggle November 03 2009Once was amusing twice is sad and three times is frickin tragic The catastrophe in Manitoba the Hardy Cockup as some wags have dubbed it really points out how weak the enforcement of CIS rules is and how far people will go to play a sport This has happened three times this season (the situation in the QUFL last season was a little different) The first time at York in September it was caught quickly and corrected before another game was played The system worked Not so with Canada West The Simon Fraser situation was dragged out for four weeks Manitobas situation with wide receiver Julian Hardy was still extant when the regular season ended It affected not only the Bisons but the four teams who ultimately are in the playoffs Having this happen three times in one season is not random No one is going rogue at least as far as we know Its about what can happen in a vacuum on the enforcement side which does extend to the media present company very much included! This might be closing the barn door after the cows got out Canadian Interuniversity Sport needs to create its own version of the NCAA Clearinghouse Its not a new suggestion but it needs to be implemented like yesterday It couldnt be that hard to have a database each school could access and since this is an age of transparency make it public and determine who is eligible Otherwise everyone loses The league has been left open to ridicule looking like it is was doing its best Mickey Mouse impression Monday while players coaches administrators and fans wondered what was going on with their playoffs as Kevin Mitchell put in the Saskatoon StarPhoenix It makes the product look bad It also hurts the media footprint since an ineligibleplayer story is easy pressreleaserewrite journalism for driveby media who otherwise ignore CIS Most of all theres no way to put it right for the Bisons players as one our awesome commenters pointed out I cant defend the Bison staff on this one it is entirely their fault But I wonder why the league did not catch this when the names were submitted to them Do they not have a list of players that are not allowed to play for various infractions that they have imposed Again it looks like the guys in the trench have to pay for the mistakes of the pencil pushers The rest of the team worked hard all season to get where they were only to have it taken away What about the injuries that they endured throughout the season for nothing Who will compensate them for that And what about the players who were in their last year how do you give them back their last chance to play for something they beleive in What is really amazing is how easy ...