Readers Don’t Cotton to This Situation

I have a question for the NCAA regarding the Schea Cotton case. I don’t have enough knowledge of the situation to judge, but NCAA officials say “it is not policy to discuss eligibility matters with parents.”

Excuse me? How dare they? The parents are the first people these matters should be discussed with! If this is indeed NCAA policy, then there is a drastic need to readdress that arrogant policy--immediately.

JEANNE DOUGLAS, Los Angeles

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Isn’t it just about time that the recruiters at our local big-time colleges stopped trying to fit round pegs into square holes? Not to take a thing away from Schea Cotton’s basketball ability, he is obviously not major college material. If he needs further basketball seasoning, there are plenty of smaller colleges where a student can be a success if he can only read and write. If he is already ready, many NBA teams would be happy to bring him aboard. A pro outfit can procure him a full-time tutor, and provide an even better new car than the UCLA-mobile he has been driving.

JOHN D. ANDREWS, Rancho Palos Verdes

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I am dumbfounded at the Cotton family’s surprise that their son is being investigated by the NCAA. They, the parents, have paraded their son from St. John Bosco to Mater Dei and then back to Bosco. He doesn’t play for the last two years, yet he still ends up regularly in The Times sports section. He makes a commitment to Long Beach State and then backs out to attend UCLA. And lately he has been seen driving a very expensive car. He did not do all this on his own. Guidance for all this has come from his parents, unless a sports agent signed him out of grammar school.

BOB ARRANAGA JR., Pasadena