Georgia football’s offensive coordinator Mike Bobo will be banned from football recruiting off-campus for one month due to a secondary violation involving the NCAA Tennis Championships last spring: The violation: escorting a recruit and his mother into the NCAA Tennis Championships on the UGA campus last spring without having them pay the $8 admission fee. […]
The news that New York Times columnist Joe Nocera is writing a book about college sports is likely to be greeted with anxious anticipation by those who do not like the NCAA. Mr. Nocera has been one of the NCAA’s harshest and most vocal critics, alongside Taylor Branch and Jay Bilas. Mr. Branch made waves last […]
Compliance officers already administer a certification exam to coaches each year, but starting soon, they will be taking a test of their own: Those who complete the compliance-certification program—which is expected to cover about 10 different NCAA bylaws and take around three hours to finish online—will receive “continuing compliance education” credits, similar to the continuing-legal-education […]
Jon Solomon of the Birmingham News dug into the NCAA’s Student-Athlete Statement, a required NCAA document with many parts which all student-athletes sign. Research finds that student-athletes objecting to signing is not unheard of and that most compliance officers believe that is fine when it comes to promotional rights: An Ithaca College survey of 213 […]
Darren Rovell got the result right in explaining that Oregon State’s victory meal of In-N-Out is not an NCAA violation, but used the wrong bylaw to get there: There is no limit on the value of a postgame meal or any meal surrounding competition, which falls under an “occasional meal,” according to NCAA bylaws. In […]
Both faculty athletics representatives and basketball coaches echoed similar concerns over new academic requirements at a meeting of Division I FARs and athletic directors in Dallas: As a member of the NCAA’s Academic Cabinet, John Bruno, the faculty athletics representative at Ohio State University, believes in the need for tougher academic standards for incoming athletes. […]
Boise State credits improvements in compliance to more people and tools, not necessarily a new attitude: “The thing that’s so frustrating about this whole situation is we tried to pay so close attention to compliance, always,” [head football coach Chris Petersen] said. “If there was ever any question, we were trying to ask. What I […]
Bruce Feldman of CBSSports.com got an exclusive interview with Sean Allen, the former Miami equipment manager who was befriended by Nevin Shaprio and delivered many of the extra benefits provided by the former Miami booster and convicted Ponzi-schemer. The article includes many interesting nuggets but few as revealing about the NCAA as this one: Allen […]
NCAA President Mark Emmert is happy so far with the steps Penn State has taken in the wake of July’s sanctions: “What’s not getting attention is the athletic-integrity agreement that Penn State signed and is taking very seriously. We have Sen. George Mitchell involved in overseeing it, and there is no question of his credentials. […]
East Carolina University has begun the process to dismiss its head softball coach and one assistant after a wide-ranging investigation into the program found a host of problems: In a news release, the university says the initial investigation found an emotionally hostile environment in the softball scholarship program, identified potential NCAA violations and noted shortcomings […]