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Obsession with Baseball Model Has to End

It should not be surprising that college athletics leaders are some of the most vocal proponents of fixing not just the NCAA but also professional leaders. Even if it is pure self interest, framing the problem as beyond just what the NCAA’s rules are is correct. The NCAA might be the 800-pound gorilla when it […]

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NAAC Launches NCAA Certification Program

The National Association of Athletics Compliance or NAAC, the affiliate group for compliance professionals under the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) today unveiled their Education Certification program. The program includes eight hours of training on 10 NCAA bylaws plus training on NCAA resources and NCAA enforcement. The certification course is just the […]

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Graham, Hamilton Cases Muddy NCAA’s Relationship with NLI

Update, 10/3: The NLI office has released a statement with corrections to some of the information in this post. See the changes below as well as some additional commentary at the end. As this summer comes to a close, stories about the National Letter of Intent and prospects being less than enthused about sticking to […]

USC Asks for Reconsideration of Sanctions

After Penn State had its sanctions reduced, USC athletic director Pat Haden traveled to Indianapolis to meet with the NCAA regarding USC’s sanctions in its 2010 infractions case: “During our meetings with the NCAA’s leaders over the last two days, we discussed enforcement and sanction issues impacting both the NCAA membership at large and USC […]

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Delany’s Comments Show Hard Questions Not Being Asked

Jim Delany’s comments at the Big Ten headquarters were described by George Schroeder as a “dramatic expansion” of the theme of more autonomy for the largest schools. But his comments mostly included more of the limited results that the major conferences are seeking out of NCAA governance changes. The substantive changes to the rules are […]

More From Penn State Case Needs to Be Incorporated into Regular NCAA Process

, I took a look at how Penn State might eventually get its sanctions reduced. That was in the wake of PSU trustees getting more vocal about their desire to see the sanctions reduced along with the news that Penn State was already complying with the reduction in overall football scholarships a year early. I […]

Does the New Basketball Practice System Include More Basketball?

Matt Norlander of CBS Sports has comments from a number of coaches aboason contest. Everyone agrees that this means a longer season, but there seems to be some disagreement over whether it will include a similar amount of basketball, that is time on the court. Some of that will come down to individual approaches to […]

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Deontae Hawkins Eligible for Illinois State Next Year With a Catch

Deontae Hawkins, who originally signed with Wichita State in 2011, will join the Illinois State men’s basketball team this year, but has a couple of hurdles (h/t Jeff Eisenberg of Yahoo! Sports) to being eligible. First, despite a year of prep school, Hawkins is a nonqualifier, and as such will not be allowed to practice […]

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Les Miles Pushes NCAA Publicity Rules to the Limit

Asked indirectly about Dylan Moses, a ninth grade running back who committed to LSU over the weekend, LSU head coach Les Miles responded indirectly: When Miles was asked about the freshman phenom by reporters on Monday, the coach responded, “Certain guys (have) ability to evaluated as youngsters … I’ve watched him in certain games and […]

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NCAA Publishes the “Willie Lyles Rule”

After Cam Newton and his father Cecil were found to not have committed a serious NCAA violation, much was made of the NCAA’s efforts to close this loophole. That resulted in the NCAA’s new definition of an agent which took over a year to be adopted and only addressed one aspect of the issues in […]

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