Jon Solomon of AL.com has the latest in the annual cycle of articles asking whether the NCAA should move the college basketball season to the spring. The idea has support from a growing number of influential people in college sports including Basketball Hall of Famer C.M. Newton and former NCAA executive Greg Shaheen. Solomon’s article […]
As part of the NCAA’s health and safety package in the current legislative cycle, the NCAA’s Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports had proposed requiring all full-time head coaches to carry a current certification in first aid, CPR, and AED use. That proposal was not adopted at the NCAA Convention in January, […]
Mitch Sherman of ESPN.com on the NCAA’s two interpretations last year regarding early enrollee signing: Additionally, the scenario that involved Malone and others carried the potential to ignite a recruiting free-for-all, with coaches and schools competing for recruits in public venues and through unmonitored communication. “That could be really ugly,” Duke coach David Cutcliffe told […]
ESPN’s Mitch Sherman on the possibility of an early signing period in football: Susan Peal, NCAA associate director of operations, said the continued acceleration of recruiting has led the Conference Commissioners Association to consider an earlier date to supplement the long-existing date in February, similar to the structure for basketball and other sports. “I think […]
By now, even many casual college sports fans know that the NCAA is rolling out major changes to eligibility for incoming freshman in 2016. But now, independent of the NCAA’s changes, another major update is in the works for the same year. Starting in Spring 2016, the College Board will roll out a redesigned version […]
The Baltimore Sun’s Jeff Barker: The NCAA may need to mandate new “dead periods” to rein in the time demands on college athletes that increasingly pull them away from the classroom, NCAA president Mark Emmert said Wednesday. “One of the things that’s being very actively discussed right now is the creation — it would have […]
Stuart Mandel of Sports Illustrated wrapping up his post-mortem of the 10-second snap proposal: In the meantime, just as the members of a losing election campaign go back and assess what went wrong, the slow-down proponents have a year to learn from their mistakes. This race may be over, but the party lines that emerged […]
Eric Olson for the Associated Press: A former West Virginia football player sued the NCAA and five major conferences Wednesday, saying they have violated antitrust laws by agreeing to cap the value of an athletic scholarship at less than the actual cost of attending school. The class being sought in this case are scholarship football […]
(Disclosure: I previously worked with a company owned by Mark Cuban on this project.) Mark Cuban made two big mistakes. In his comments about college basketball, the NCAA, the one-and-done NBA age limit, and the NBA D-League, Cuban misspoke once: “I think what will end up happening — this is my opinion, not that of […]
The NCAA issued a release giving more details about the coming governance changes that will be presented to the membership in the spring and which the NCAA hopes to have in place in August. The specifics released this time seem targeted at the criticisms of the model presented at the Division I Governance Dialogue at […]