Greg Bishop of the New York Times: Everyone seemed to agree on a basic premise: N.C.A.A. change is coming, perhaps as soon as next summer. The more everyone talked, though, the less grand potential reforms seemed. One commissioner, Karl Benson of the Sun Belt Conference, said during a panel discussion that he expected changes would […]
Jon Solomon for the Birmingham News: Alvin Jobe, on behalf of his son Grayson, identified as an 11th-grade football player at Central Holmes Christian School in Lexington, Miss., wants the NCAA and NFHS to provide high schools with current concussion-risk information and standard of care practices in their possession. He is also asking for both […]
Dick Chatelain of the Omaha World-Herald: Dean Blais and Jaycob Megna violated NCAA rules when the coach reimbursed the player $400 after Megna’s wristwatch was taken from the CenturyLink Center locker room in October 2012. They won’t be with UNO when it faces New Hampshire (Jan. 3-4) and Minnesota-Duluth (Jan. 10). The Mavs’ program won’t […]
Gary Klein of the Los Angeles Times: Mike Davis, a throwing coach who helped Basham win a state shotput title, told The Times that Tosh Lupoi, Washington’s defensive line coach, gave him $3,000 to cover private tutoring for [Andrew] Basham through a test preparation company. Davis said he also received $1,500 from Lupoi to reimburse […]
Steve Brandon of the Portland Tribune, writing about a waiver filed by the University of Portland on behalf of women’s basketball student-athlete Kaylie Van Loo: The uncertainty at the time was because UP officials had decided to file a waiver that would have allowed Van Loo to begin playing last weekend, after the first semester. […]
Add Dominque Booth, a wide receiver prospect from Indiana, to the list of football players who are signing grant-in-aid agreements before they even commit to a school. But Booth’s recruitment reveals an additional wrinkle to this practice, as outlined by the Indianapolis Star’s Zach Osterman: A recruiting dead period starts Sunday. Indiana is hoping to […]
Phil Sheridan writing for ESPN.com about potential interest by Texas in Philadelphia Eagles head coach Chip Kelly: Kelly is also limited to some degree by the “show cause” order placed on him by the NCAA for recruiting violations at Oregon. That 18-month penalty likely wouldn’t deter a college team from hiring Kelly. While Kelly’s show-cause […]
Steve Berkowitz of USA Today: Thursday night, the NCAA argued there are five justifications for the compensation limits — and it unloaded 87 exhibits to back those justifications. Among the exhibits are new statements from nine college presidents or chancellors, six conference commissioners and six athletics directors, as well as excerpts from recently taken depositions […]
During the 2013 IMG Intercollegiate Athletics Forum, co-presented by Sports Business Journal, Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany dropped this nugget: Delany: Asking us to pay players is like asking pro teams to require athletes to be in full-time study. — Dan Wolken (@DanWolken) December 11, 2013 The response to Delany’s comment has been to question […]
The NCAA today closed the Southeastern Louisiana Case which arose from an APR audit that began in 2008. The case was resolved via summary disposition and ended up with SELU agreeing to a charge of lack of institutional control: Southeastern Louisiana lacked control over its athletics department when it failed to monitor its certification process. […]