Last night the college sports world was set ablaze by this article in the LA Times. The article reports a letter that was received from an attorney who claims she overheard a conversation involving the boyfriend of an NCAA investigator discussing the Shabazz Muhammad case in August and who, based on what he had heard […]
Minnesota football coach Jerry Kill has floated the idea of allowing redshirts to play in a bowl game without burning a season of eligibility. While this is a terrible idea, at least Coach Kill did not hide his true motives behind a smokescreen of “unique participation opportunities for student-athletes”: “You’d like to have it happen, […]
Southeastern Louisiana University and the NCAA have finished a joint investigation and found no evidence that student-athletes were given preferential treatment with their parking tickets: SLU encouraged anyone with information regarding evidence of wrongdoing by any university employee to provide such evidence to authorities. They said the investigations were handled by going through a series […]
Increasingly the NCAA is treading into a grey area. The association is asking more and more about the who behind a student-athlete or prospect rather than the what. As more and more student-athletes are having to sit out and repay expenses, the issue is coming to the fore. And the NCAA must wrestle with how […]
Division II University of Alaska-Fairbanks joined the long list of schools with eligibility certification violations over the last few years: According to UAF, the infractions occurred when the institution’s advising and sports eligibility systems failed to alert students who hadn’t earned enough credits or who had switched majors without doing the official paperwork. To compete […]
Winston Shepard, a freshman men’s basketball player at San Diego State University will be suspended three games for receiving impermissible benefits. That by itself is not too notable. As Mark Zeigler notes, Shepard is just the latest basketball player to be suspended this year. And Shepard’s violation, having a car loan cosigned by someone he […]
On Friday, UCLA said it was considering an appeal (an interlocutory appeal if you were a legal scholar) of the NCAA’s decision to rule that men’s basketball student-athlete Shabazz Muhammad was ineligible and needed to be reinstated. Now it seems they might not appeal that decision and move on to reinstatement. Maybe: Instead, the school […]
Brad Wolverton of the Chronicle of Higher Education takes a look at online courses, typically completed over the course of a couple weeks, that are used by athletes and schools for eligibility purposes. The NCAA is already on the case: The NCAA is aware that an increasing number of athletes are taking short-format online courses. […]
Before Enes Kanter’s eligibility case, the NCAA rarely, if ever, made announcements for secondary violations, student-athlete reinstatement decisions, or initial eligibility certifications. The trend is increasingly more common now. And the latest is the NCAA’s release on the eligibility of Shabazz Muhammad. But it is this seemingly confusing list from the LA Times that is […]
Two Akron junior men’s basketball players, Nick Harney and Demetrius Treadwell, will miss the first three games of the season because prior to starting their careers last year, they failed to get final amateurism certification from the NCAA Eligibility Center: “It is most unfortunate that these two student-athletes will suffer because of an NCAA requirement […]