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Scrimmage Likely Cost ODU’s Hill His Final Season

It was not a shock to Old Dominion that Donte Hill’s eligibility for the upcoming year was uncertain. The school knew that Hill, a transfer from Clemson, would need some help from the NCAA to be eligible for his fifth season. Hill used a season of competition at Clemson when he played in a preseason […]

Games in Europe Great For Student-Athletes If Done Right

Dennis Dodd of CBSSports.com is reporting that the ACC may consider playing football and basketball games in Europe. The response that followed was predictable: Student-athletes! RT @cbssports: ACC is considering playing football and basketball games in Europe. bit.ly/ZAduVb — Jon Solomon (@jonsol) April 26, 2013   The jury is still out though. Like foreign tours, […]

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NCAA Publishes Tips for Top Five Recruited Countries

For years, the NCAA has published the Guide to International Academic Standards for Athletics Eligibility. At around 200 pages, it covers every country for which the NCAA has translated its initial eligibility standards to a foreign educational system. But it is not exactly user-friendly. If the Guide to International Academic Standards is the Bible for […]

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The Politics of Emmert’s “Crazy” Comment

Yesterday I wrote about NCAA President Mark Emmert calling opposition to deregulation “crazy” and the current monitoring burden “insane”. After the post, I added this tweet: If we assume the BoD will send phone call proposal to an override vote, then Emmert’s comments are an attempt to “energize the base.” — John Infante (@John_Infante) April […]

NCAA Denies Eligibility to UCR Infielder

Eddie Young, sidelined for weeks while his eligibility was sorted out, was not given a fifth year by the NCAA today. Details about the ruling are sparse, but also unknown is what it means for the UC-Riverside baseball team. They may have to vacate the wins Young participated in before he was declared ineligible and […]

Emmert: Pushback Against Deregulation “Crazy”

Speaking to bowl officials, NCAA president Mark Emmert had this to say about the opposition to recruiting deregulation, specifically to unlimited phone calls to prospects: “It’s crazy that people have to hire somebody to count your cell phone calls and track your call records; you can’t text somebody but you can email,” Emmert said. “It’s […]

The Myths of Presidential Control

Andy Staples excellent reporting of the frustration of athletic directors over the current legislative agenda and process of the NCAA appears to be the final step in picking a scapegoat for the NCAA’s troubles. It is all the fault of university presidents. Whether it is the university presidents who decide to change conferences, university presidents […]

Could One School Pay Another to Help an Athlete Transfer?

Purdue’s Sandi Marcius is in a bind. Marcius wants to transfer to play his redshirt senior season at a different school. Marcius is just short of graduating from Purdue and being able to play immediately next year as a graduate student. Marcius also needs the exception to play at all, since his five-year clock will […]

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Compliance Group Proposes Student-Athlete Employment Monitoring Standards

NAAC is the National Association for Athletics Compliance, the main industry organization for NCAA compliance professionals and an affiliate of NACDA, the National Association of Collegiate Athletic Directors. NAAC provides resource of compliance professionals, hosts an annual convention in conjunction with NACDA, and has proposed a certification exam for compliance coordinators. But one of its […]

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UCF Wins Appeal of Bowl Ban

UCF Wins Appeal, Eligible for Bowl in 2013 Central Florida continued a rare winning streak for schools in front of the Committee on Infractions. The university successfully appealed the football team’s postseason ban from its 2012 major infractions case. The reasoning was that football and basketball were too mixed up: In reviewing the record before […]

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