Joey Knight of the Tampa Bay Times: Time to abolish “commitment” from the recruiting vernacular. If society can rid itself of AstroTurf, the BCS and The T.O. Show, surely it can wean itself off a word simply not compatible with big-time recruiting in its current form. That goes for its preposterous spin-offs as well. No […]
This article by Mitch Sherman for ESPN.com is ostensibly about the NCAA’s recent interpretation which limits the value to prospects, especially midyear football enrollees, of signing multiple scholarship agreements before committing to a school. But the final sentence of the article shows that the events which prompted the interp have touched a raw nerve: At […]
The report of the January 2014 meeting of the NCAA Division I Leadership Council has two important pieces of information, both regarding how the NCAA makes decisions on cases involving student-athletes. First, while the press release from the meeting noted that the Leadership Council decided not to move forward with eliminating immediate eligibility in transfer […]
One of the highlights of this year’s NCAA Convention, the Division I Governance Dialogue, is still going on, but there was news from a few other areas as well. Stuart Mandel of Sports Illustrated reported that the Division I Leadership Council did not decide to change transfer waiver guidelines to remove immediate eligibility. The idea […]
The Division I Legislative Council adopted many of the major proposals in front of the group on Wednesday at the NCAA Convention. The proposals adopted include: Requiring institutions to report deaths and catastrophic injuries to the NCAA; Requiring all teams to have a physicians appointed to oversee student-athlete care; Allowing phone calls and texts to […]
The NCAA Leadership Council meeting on January 16 at the NCAA Convention in San Diego will be headlined by the anticipated adoption of new transfer waiver guidelines. But the Council will take up a request from the NCAA staff that could have even further reaching implications. To summarize the request, the calls for the NCAA […]
A temporary waiver to absolve the University of Vermont men’s basketball team, as well as other programs across the country, of a schedule issue is expected to be approved by the NCAA later this week, the Burlington Free Press learned. The America East conference filed the waiver after the reports of Southland Conference teams […]
The discussed changes to transfer waivers for revenue sport athletes will go to the full Leadership Council this week at the NCAA Convention. The Leadership Council will be asked to approve the recommendations of the subcommittee and send them to the Board of Directors for final approval. The changes are not NCAA legislation, rather than […]
After months of speculation, it appears the issue of NCAA governance is moving rapidly toward a conclusion. What started as threats by commissioners of BCS conferences to further subdivide Division I if not exit the NCAA entirely is now a set of 14 PowerPoint slides that propose how Division I will be run. Brad Wolverton […]
The combination of more awareness about signing midyear enrollees and the broadening of the type of commitments that allow publicity and recruiting restrictions to be ignored lead to a couple interesting recruiting battles. Two wide receivers, Dominique Booth and Josh Malone, signed multiple athletic scholarship offers, but not NLIs. As a result, the coaches recruiting […]