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Schools are coming down to the wire to get athletes through the NCAA Eligibility Center in time for fall seasons and the start of school. Practice for most fall sports has started and classes will begin over the next week or so for many semester schools. Syracuse is wondering whether two players will be eligible […]
August 15th is always a little like Christmas if you follow NCAA legislation. That day is the deadline for the NCAA to publish to its members the proposals under consideration at the upcoming NCAA convention, this year in San Diego. In the past, that meant up to 100 Division I proposals. Last year it meant […]
Good Bull Hunting, SB Nation’s Texas A&M blog, did some digging through open records requests and came up empty looking for evidence of a formal investigation by the NCAA into Johnny Manziel: [R]eading through their response to me, we can conclude that as of Aug 5, there has be no NOI [Notice of Inquiry] sent […]
A federal investigation and criminal case involving a sports betting and game fixing ring will not result in additional sanctions for the University of San Diego. The NCAA accepted USD’s secondary violation. The Torero’s corrective action centered around disassociating a former coach and player from the program. This result is consistent with the NCAA’s (lack […]
The NCAA published a new staff interpretation clarifying and limiting how institutions can use material from recruiting websites and school-specific blogs, websites, and other publications. The background for this is that the NCAA limits interaction between schools and recruiting services. NCAA rules also require that schools tread lightly when dealing with publications that report solely […]
Jonathan Duncan, the NCAA’s interim vice president of enforcement introduced two long-requested programs designed to improve NCAA enforcement. First, staff members will be visiting member campuses to see conditions on the front lines. “One of the things I hear is that our staff sometimes lacks an understanding of what campus life is really like,” Duncan […]
Yesterday it was quietly announced, mostly by a few compliance officers on Twitter, that the National Letter of Intent now expires seven days after the date of issue. The NLI also must be filed with the conference office within 14 days of signing. Previously prospects had 14 days to sign the NLI and 21 days […]
Wright Thompson, author of one of the definitive Johnny Manziel profiles, has an excellent piece about Nate Fitch, Johnny Manziel’s friend. Thompson’s article is the specific example to Bruce Feldman’s more general point about how individuals with less than pure motives worm their way into the lives of college athletes. Thompson paints a picture of […]
Jim Tressel, formerly of Ohio State’s football team and now a vice president at the University of Akron, may be in line to become a university president as Akron’s current leader has announced he will step down in June: “He’s probably going to be a candidate, but that’s about all we can say at this […]
Just the title of this interpretation makes it seem like a bit of NCAA minutiae that might not come up all that often: “Summer Terms for Institutions without Traditional Terms of Enrollment to Satisfy 2–4 Transferable Degree Credit Requirements”. But the content of the interp will become more and important as time goes on: The […]
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