Joe Scalzo of Yindy.com: Shar’Rae Davis, Amanda Barger and Taylor Hvisdak will not be playing for Youngstown State’s women’s basketball team next season, but they want to make one thing clear: It wasn’t their choice. Head coach John Barnes released the three players from their scholarships following the season, his first with the Penguins. Barnes […]
Ed. Note: This is a guest post by Will Rubin, a junior at the University of Oregon with a major in Journalism. A lifelong resident of Eugene, Will has covered the Oregon Ducks for the Oregon Daily Emerald and AddictedToQuack.com, and currently writes for DuckTerritory.com. In the future, he hopes to write for a major […]
UW-Milwaukee announced today that its men’s basketball program was banned from the postseason for the 2014–15 academic year due to a low Academic Progress Rate score. They join San Jose State men’s basketball, which announced the same thing earlier this month and UNLV football, which sounds like it is still appealing or fighting for APR […]
I tend not call out poor writing about compliance issues. There’s too much of it and it would be mostly mean-spirited. The exception is when bad writing about NCAA rules means the writer got something fundamentally wrong. Good writing should be promoted, and Jeremy Fowler of CBS Sports produced that in a story about Duke […]
Kyle Ringo of BuffZone.com: Colorado football coach Mike MacIntyre said running back Josh Ford’s appeal to the NCAA for a sixth season of eligibility has been denied, ending his college career. From his bio on Colorado’s website, Ford is just listed as redshirting in 2010, his first season at Colorado. He also did not play […]
When Shabazz Napier decided to use the platform of a national championship celebration to criticize the NCAA for UConn’s postseason ban in 2012–13, responses fell into one of two camps. Some thought it was momentous, exposing at once how NCAA penalties, especially Academic Progress Rate penalties, were at the same time capricious and ineffective. Others, […]
University of Connecticut basketball guard Shabazz Napier says sometimes there’s “hungry nights that we don’t have enough money to get food.” But all students have “unlimited access” to resident dining units that offer “all-you-care-to-eat.” This is what a full scholarship student-athlete can receive in terms of food: Meal plan that includes three meals per day; […]
Brad Wolverton of the Chronicle of Higher Education on Kentucky’s trend of “one-and-done” basketball players: It turns out, the team’s NCAA Graduation Success Rate has improved sharply in recent years, to more than 80 percent (it was 44 percent a few years ago). And in the past two years, its NCAA Academic Progress Rate, which […]
Jimmy Durkin of the San Jose Mercury News on San Jose State’s announcement that it expects Academic Progress Rate sanctions on the men’s basketball team in 2014–15: “Last year, we were faced with a situation that needed to be dealt with in a major fashion,” athletic director Gene Bleymaier said in a release, referencing the […]
Bruce Feldman of CBS Sports, interviewing Tim Lavin, a former Southern California football player about walk-on issues: The Inclusion Petition I have put forth will inform American sports fans and media of where we really are today and what we must do for basic fairness and the true protection and sincere well-being of all student-athletes. […]