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Just how big is FBS football? One quick way to illustrate the impact of an FBS football program on an athletic department is to look at scholarship spending. Winthrop Intelligence looked at what schools are spending on average athletic aid per athlete in each of Division I’s three subdivisions and overall (numbers from 2011–12): FBS: […]
For all the talk about shifting the focus to help future pros in college football and basketball, college soccer is the one place where there is a real dilemma about it. Right now the NBA and NFL have no plans coming in the near future that would displace the NCAA as the best route for […]
Amidst all the commotion about governance reform and football recruiting changes, basketball has been left out of most of the talk during the series of fall meetings the various Division I leadership groups have held over the past week. But one small but still potentially significant change for both men’s and women’s basketball was slipped […]
After seeing what coaches had to say about possible governance changes, athletic directors who had been some of the most vocal drivers for major reform might have been expected to some up with something equally groundbreaking. But the NCAA Division I Leadership Council, which has the most ADs of any group in Division I, followed […]
Tomorrow presidents of Division I institutions will hear a series of proposals from different stakeholder groups in Division I. What athletic directors, compliance professionals, and faculty might want is fairly easy to guess. Brad Wolverton of the Chronicle of Higher Education has the scoop on what one of the more interesting presentations will contain: the […]
Sports Illustrated’s Stuart Mandel wrote about the Miami decision and how events during the case changed public perception of the NCAA as a whole: The Jerry Sandusky/Penn State child abuse revelations, which reset the bar considerably as to what constitutes a “scandal” in college athletics The Ed O’Bannon v. the NCAA case and the increased […]
John Gasaway of various outlets including ESPN Insider wrote on his personal blog about this New York Times editorial connecting NCAA reform with the Grambling boycott ends with a rule Gasaway wants all NCAA critics to remember: It’s possible for bad things to happen in the vicinity of college sports that are not authored entirely […]
The Division I Board of Directors and Presidential Advisory Group (DI presidents from conferences not represented on the Board of Directors) will hear presentations on governance later in October. The groups represented include almost every major stakeholder in college athletics: Coaches (through coaches associations) Conference commissioners (through CCA) Athletic directors Faculty The Knight Commission Compliance […]
The way offseason workouts are handled are one of the most confusing set of rules in the NCAA manual. Not only are the total number of hours and required days off regulated, but so are the activities and number of athletes allowed. In all sports, offseason workouts are limited to eight hours per week. In […]
Football coaches have been clamoring for an earlier signing date and they got it. But much earlier than they may have thought and only for a select group of prospects: The academic and membership affairs staff determined that a prospective student-athlete who intends to graduate from high school midyear and enroll at a member institution […]
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