In the wake of the suspensions to Peter Jurkin and Hanner Perea, people are asking the NCAA a lot of questions. One of those questions, “Did you hammer these kids because you could not prove IU did anything wrong?” will never have a satisfying answer for anyone who asks it. Another one of those questions, […]
The University of Hawaii has completed an internal audit that found, among other inconsistencies, possible NCAA violations involving football camps: The UH waived fees for 44 football camp participants in 2012, the audit found, prompting further concern about possible NCAA violations if any of those students went on to play football at UH. The audit […]
The NCAA has accepted the penalties Texas Tech self-imposed for practice violations committed last year under then-head coach Billy Gillispie: Hocutt said the NCAA contacted Tech late last week and notified the school that the violations were deemed secondary, and no further action would be taken on top of the penalties Tech had already imposed […]
Indiana athletic director Fred Glass had some of the most reasonable criticism of the NCAA from a school who got an adverse decision in some time: “The current people working at the NCAA who are vested in maintaining the integrity of the rules should not be criticized,” Glass said. “We violated that rule. We screwed […]
Two of Indiana’s freshman men’s basketball players, Hanner Perea and Peter Jurkin, were suspended for nine games because of impermissible benefits provided by Mark Adams, who operates both A-HOPE, a foundation which brings basketball players over from Africa, and the Indiana Elite AAU team. The benefits would have been permissible but for Adam’s status as […]
A student-athlete union is the holy grail of would-be NCAA reformers. All that is needed is for student-athletes to unionize, the theory goes, and the money and protection will flow undisturbed. In truth, creating a certified union of student-athletes, despite the current legal hurdles, is probably the easiest piece of the puzzle. Winning the collective […]
The Division I Subcommittee on Legislative Relief today updated the guidelines for the NCAA staff to use when approving transfer waivers based on a family member’s injury or illness. While these situations are supposed to be rare, applications for these waivers seem to have increased, and SLR felt the decisions from the staff were not […]
After Indiana University’s exhibition win over Indiana Wesleyan, IU head coach Tom Crean addressed the eligibility of Hanner Mosquera-Perea and Peter Jurkin: “What I can say about that is that we go through a lot in a program,” he said. “There’s situations that are always going to arise and every one of them has got […]
Earlier this week I explained why Ohio State could not be let back into the Big Ten Championship Game this year because the NCAA’s postseason ban covers the game. That case was pretty clear given the wording the NCAA used in sanctioning the Buckeyes. Penn State head football coach Bill O’Brien brought up a murkier […]
New Mexico men’s basketball student-athlete Jamal Fenton was recently suspended for three games for an NCAA violation. Yesterday details of the violation were obtained by the Albuquerque Journal. The violation stemmed from a discount Fenton received while renting out a ballroom for his 21st birthday party: “Not knowing I already got the discount, (the hotel […]