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With many athletes both graduating and transferring as the school year winds down, there are many questions about which football and basketball players will be eligible immediately as graduate students. Because this area has changed so much in the last few years there is confusion about graduate transfers. The current graduate transfer system started with […]
The former head women’s basketball coach at Division II Wingate University was cited for unethical conduct in the major infractions case against the school. Most of the violations committed by the coach were relatively mundane. In total, she provided $160 in impermissible benefits to four student-athletes and paid $150 of an enrollment fee for a […]
Both Saint Mary's and its head men's basketball coach Randy Bennett have filed appeals in their major infractions case which was decided in March. Saint Mary's will appeal the loss of two scholarships for two years each as well as a two-year ban on out-of-season skill instruction. But Bennett is going further: Coach Randy Bennett […]
Matthew Thomas’s effort to get out of his National Letter of Intent is as good a time as any to take a look at the NLI. The NLI is roundly and in many cases rightly criticized. But it still serves an essential purpose and is so ingrained in the recruiting culture that fixing it rather […]
Matthew Thomas, a linebacker from Miami’s Booker T. Washington High School, has asked Florida State for a release from his National Letter of Intent. Thomas claims he signed the NLI “under duress”, which in this case was family pressure: “What happened was on Signing Day was I wasn’t sure who I wanted to sign with. […]
The meeting of the Division I Board of Directors got most of the attention with major reform efforts shelved or delayed along with some needed governance work. But in Division II, much bigger changes were moved along. The President’s Council voted to accept the recommendations of the Academic Task Force, which was given the job […]
Late yesterday, USA Today posted an excellent investigative story from Eric Prisbell in which Darius Cobb, the former AAU coach of Kansas star Ben McLemore, admitted to accepting cash and gifts from Rodney Blackstock, who runs a mentoring service for basketball players but also appears to be a freelance runner for agents. The article is […]
ESPN’s Andy Katz asked the NCAA about the Lance Thomas case. Specifically Katz asked why there was a difference between the Thomas case, where he refused to cooperate with the NCAA’s investigation into his jewelry purchase and Memphis’s 2009 major infractions case where Derrick Rose refused to discuss his potentially fraudulent SAT test. The response […]
Back in January, the NCAA Division I Leadership Council was looking at fairly significant changes to the NCAA’s transfer rules. Those changes might have created a virtual free agency; ideas floated included allowing any player with a 2.600 GPA or higher to transfer without sitting out at least once. A few months on, and the […]
Among the issues that the Board of Directors had to work out was opposition to some of the new initial eligibility standards which will start in 2016. Specifically, the Board of Directors was asked to eliminate or amend the new sliding GPA/test score scale which would require incoming freshmen to present a GPA .500 points […]
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