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The NCAA is known as both an uncaring bureaucracy and an organization which simply makes up rules as it goes along. Any organization trying to wrangle the activities of over 1,000 members and hundreds of thousands of individuals at those institutions is bound to grow the large rulebooks and many committees and departments that make […]
Brad Wolverton’s investigative piece on trainers who have to fight with coaches (who may be the trainer’s boss) over medical decisions is a must read. In general, it is yet another example of the tightrope college athletics administrators feel they must walk. Stay too distant and you risk not working effectively with a successful coach […]
The recently concluded Johnny Manziel affair shone light on the NCAA’s strict yet also confusing rules about how different people or organizations can use a student-athlete’s name or likeness. Athletes are not permitted to profit off their name or likeness. The university can use athletes in some types of promotions and commercial items, but not […]
Former Miami football star and current trustee Bernie Kosar made an interesting comment at a celebration for Miami’s 1983 National Championship: “To go the last two years and self-impose the bowl bans, and then not having 10 scholarships last year … when you’re that thin with your number of scholarships and you have that many […]
This morning the NCAA published a new interpretation of the permission to contact rules. It is not a radical change by any means, but it will help student-athletes in some cases: The academic and membership affairs staff determined that an institution that has received a four-year college prospective student-athlete’s signed acceptance of admission or a […]
The loophole in NCAA rules that allows Oklahoma State to circumvent NCAA regulations on satellite football camps, as reported by Dan Wetzel and Pat Forde, is pretty ingenious. Essentially Oklahoma State farms out satellite football camps in Texas to a Division III school. According to the NCAA’s definition of an “institutional camp or clinic”, these […]
Everyone should have assumed that the Johnny Manziel case was going to end with an unsatisfactory whimper rather than a bang. Too many holes to fill plus an increasingly controversial rule meant the odds of widespread agreement with whatever the NCAA decided was unlikely. But just how dissatisfied we should be rests on parsing this […]
Four years ago, Florida men’s basketball signee Chris Walker is probably enrolled in classes right now. But Walker has run out of time to enroll for the fall semester as he tries to sort out his eligibility: Simply put, a source said, he’s yet to finish the coursework and can’t enroll until he does. “But […]
According to a Houston radio host, the NCAA will let everyone, not just A&M, know whether Johnny Manziel should be withheld from competition either for a violation or because of an ongoing investigation tomorrow: The NCAA will announce its recommendation on Manziel play or no-play on Wednesday, according to an A&M source. — John P. […]
Xavier Rathan-Mayes, a key incoming basketball recruit for Florida State, will not suit up for the team in games or practice this year after not being cleared by the NCAA Eligibility Center. Rathan-Mayes will be allowed to receive a scholarship though, which means he received a partial initial eligibility waiver. Back in the bad old […]
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