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Maine Maritime Academy is the latest school to be put on probation for major violations of Division III’s ban on athletic scholarships. But compared to many recent Division III aid cases, Maine Maritime’s violations are a step above. A common pattern for Division III financial aid violations was a scholarship program which had no athletics […]
State Sen. Jake Corman, one of the most vocal opponents to the NCAA’s sanctions against Penn State in the Pennsylvania legislature, was denied the opportunity to intervene in the NCAA’s lawsuit against the state. Corman has his own lawsuit going against the NCAA in state court and wants to avoid inconsistent judgments: Corman said in […]
The NCAA reported that after having its two biggest academic committees discuss the NCAA’s academic fraud rules, the first major step toward possible reform of those rules will be to get feedback from the membership: The Academic Cabinet and Committee on Academic Performance discussed the issue throughout the summer and fall, but now the groups […]
Sometimes what seems like a reason not to do something is better thought of as an obstacle that needs to be overcome. For example, this quote from Ivy League executive director Robin Harris: “Do you pay the starting quarterback more than the third-string lineman, and how do you balance gender equity?” she said. “If you […]
Saint Mary’s College and Randy Bennett both had their appeals of major violations by the NCAA’s Infractions Appeals Committee. The result is that Bennett will serve a five-game suspension this season and Saint Mary’s will have to abide by the scholarship restrictions imposed by the Committee on Infractions. Saint Mary’s argued that the scholarship restrictions […]
Counting everything, including the table of contents, the index, and extra bits about how to use the book and LSDBi, the NCAA Division I Manual is about 400 pages. The version the NCAA prints on paper is about 320 pages, since some bylaws are left out. But how much of that actually applies to a […]
Coastal Carolina’s head men’s golf coach Allen Terrell resigned abruptly in August after NCAA violations were detailed in a report to the NCAA. The violations involved extra benefits provided to a prospect before he enrolled at CCU: The most significant of those infractions were that Terrell gave a former student-athlete five private lessons during his […]
Three of the four major recruiting proposals which were not adopted last yeaed form. The Rules Working Group (not the new committee/task force/working group, the old one) has taken some sports out and not removed all restrictions on some activities, just made those restrictions much simpler. First, the one proposal which was not even adopted […]
Brent Schrotenboer of USA Today details the connections between NCAA President Mark Emmert and Alabama head coach Nick Saban. Those connections put the NCAA in a tough position given the investigations into two cases of Alabama football players allegedly receiving extra benefits from agents or individuals connected to agents: [Stephen] Miller, the attorney, said the […]
This spring, when major recruiting deregulation proposals were defeated at least partially due to the objections of football coaches and BCS conference leaders, there might have been a thought that it could still get done. Maybe not go quite as far and football would be on board, which would possibly get the proposals over the […]
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