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Sara Ganim of CNN published a report which called into question why athletes were being admitting to college, allowed to participate in collegiate athletics, and earning degrees when their test scores indicated an elementary school reading level. Not exactly breaking news, but the report tackled the issue with an unusual amount of data and framed […]
Pete Thamel of Sports Illustrated dug into the issue of transfers in men’s basketball and went beyond the surface level concerns. Most articles about transfers, particularly in men’s basketball, focus on the sheer number of transfers, the number and inconsistency of waiver decisions, or the NCAA’s restrictions on transfers. Thamel talked to coaches and teased […]
Genevieve Curtis of KFOX14 in El Paso, TX: Up until now, the FBI’s ongoing investigation has not revealed point shaving but [local sports commentator Steve] Kaplowitz said that makes the FBI’s involvement in the violations interesting. “It’s weird because when you look back on the history of the FBI investigating college athletes, most of the […]
In September, the NCAA Division I Amateurism Cabinet began a review of the NCAA’s rules regarding the use of a student-athlete’s name or likeness. Specifically, the cabinet began looking at student-athletes using their name or likeness to promote different types of businesses, including: Athletically or nonathletically related commercial businesses which employ the student-athlete; Nonathletically related […]
Casey McDermott for Pacific Standard on challenges to unpaid internships in athletic departments: In one of the few legal cases involving unpaid internships at universities, a former intern at New York’s Hamilton College filed a lawsuit last year, seeking class-action status, alleging that the school’s athletic department improperly classified its interns to avoid paying the […]
Brad Wolverton of the Chronicle of Higher Education has the latest in a series of pieces by a number of outlets involving criticism of the NCAA’s increased academic requirements for junior college transfers by the two-year college community. Those complaints are myriad, ranging from the requirements themselves to how they were implemented. The problem, as […]
In January 2013, the NCAA Division I Leadership Council, made up of mostly athletic directors, was looking at loosening transfer restrictions especially in the sports that do not have access to the one-time transfer exception (football, basketball, baseball, and men’s ice hockey). As of April 2013, those changes had been scaled back significantly, with the […]
The new year brings with it my fourth attempt to fix the NCAA Division I Manual. Like the last three years, the goal is not to identify major changes or philosophical shifts. These are all intended to be relatively minor changes that should have an outsized benefit. After three previous lists and the work done […]
Greg Bishop of the New York Times: Everyone seemed to agree on a basic premise: N.C.A.A. change is coming, perhaps as soon as next summer. The more everyone talked, though, the less grand potential reforms seemed. One commissioner, Karl Benson of the Sun Belt Conference, said during a panel discussion that he expected changes would […]
Jon Solomon for the Birmingham News: Alvin Jobe, on behalf of his son Grayson, identified as an 11th-grade football player at Central Holmes Christian School in Lexington, Miss., wants the NCAA and NFHS to provide high schools with current concussion-risk information and standard of care practices in their possession. He is also asking for both […]
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