Bylaws

NCAA Rules No Exemption for Midyear Graduate Transfers

This was to be expected and made sense given the bylaws, but the NCAA made it explicit: In baseball and basketball, a graduate student-athlete who qualifies for the one-time transfer exception but initially enrolls as a full-time student at the certifying institution after the first term of the academic year shall not be eligible for […]

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Florida State To Honor Scholarship of Prospect Who Quit Football

Richy Klepal was forced to quit football due to concussions but Florida State will honor his football scholarship offer: “I just got a call from coach Weiner from coach Fisher that they are going to honor my scholarship, which is a huge weight off my shoulders,” Klepal said. “That makes me happy.” Not only is […]

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NCAA Membership Has Questions After Penn State

On-campus administrators are worried about the aftermath of the Penn State decision:  “So does the whole governing structure come into question?” said St. Joseph’s athletic director Don DiJulia, a former conference commissioner. “Maybe it should be changed, but we need to revisit the practice of the governance process if this vehicle is going to be […]

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Life After College Football

Kyle Veazey of the Memphis Commercial Appeal asks you to imagine what it would be like if college football were gone:  “People have their livelihoods around this,” [Ole Miss AD Ross] Bjork said. He’s one of them. Would an athletic director be worth $400,000 — his salary — without a football program that brings in […]

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NCAA Deals Blow to Academy Football

An NCAA interpretation published today draws clearer boxes around what is considered a scholastic or high school team: The committee confirmed that a team made up of prospective student-athletes (e.g., home school or academy team) that is not organized or administered under the auspices of a scholastic governing body is considered a nonscholastic team. This […]

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Maybe Harvey Perlman Was Right

There is a reason that reaching discovery is a major landmark in any legal case. At the start of a lawsuit, a plaintiff has only a theory of recovery. What appears in a complaint or pleading are just allegations. Discovery starts the process of testing that theory and finding out how many of those allegations […]

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Why is Oversigning Accepted in Basketball?

For the past two or three years, oversigning in football has been one of the biggest hot button issues in the NCAA. It has lead to legislative changes in both of the last two years, with the end result being a stricter set of limits on how many football prospects a school can sign, as […]

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Rejected NCAA Proposal Makes UNC Case More Complex

In 2011, facing rapidly accelerating changes in how courses at colleges were being offered, NCAA schools decided to change the regulation of nontraditional courses including online and independent study courses. Previously, extension courses were allowed so long as the school considered enrollment in the courses as regular enrollment and correspondence courses, in addition to being outdated, […]

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NCAA Shows Just How Serious The Nine-Hour Rule Is

The NCAA’s new nine-hour rule showed that the NCAA members are getting serious about football graduation rates. Football became the second sport, after baseball, to get sport–specific academic rules. But as with any rule change in the NCAA, there is always the question of how far the Association is willing to go with a new […]

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How the NCAA Could Could Get Lance Thomas to Talk

The news that former Duke men’s basketball player Lance Thomas is being sued over not paying for almost $100,000 of jewelry he purchased as a senior in college looks like another Reggie Bush-type case. Most of the initial reaction has focused on how Thomas could afford the $30,000 down payment he made on the jewelry, […]

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