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Higher Education Act Changes Could Have Big Impact on Athletics

Reverend Michael J. Garanzini, president of Loyola University of Chicago, has an editorial in the Chronicle of Higher Education today about the upcoming reauthorization of the Higher Education Act of 1965. That federal law covers most of the financial aid provided by the federal government and is the backbone of federal regulation of higher education. […]

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Clinton-Dix Loan May Not Have Been Necessary

Alabama’s Ha Ha Clinton-Dix was suspended for a violation of team rules according to Alabama head coach Nick Sa ban on Wednesday. But Thursday, multiple outlets including the Tuscaloosa News reported that the violation was one of not just team but NCAA rules. Clinton-Dix received a small loan from Corey Harris, an assistant strength and […]

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Conference Commissioners are Not NCAA Officials

NCAA governance is confusing, no one disputes that. Part of the blame lies with the NCAA. Running a management company with $800 million in revenue overseeing a multi-billion industry with the same system used to decide if a condo owner can put up a satellite dish is bound to lead to weirdness. But this is […]

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NAAC Launches NCAA Certification Program

The National Association of Athletics Compliance or NAAC, the affiliate group for compliance professionals under the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) today unveiled their Education Certification program. The program includes eight hours of training on 10 NCAA bylaws plus training on NCAA resources and NCAA enforcement. The certification course is just the […]

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USC Asks for Reconsideration of Sanctions

After Penn State had its sanctions reduced, USC athletic director Pat Haden traveled to Indianapolis to meet with the NCAA regarding USC’s sanctions in its 2010 infractions case: “During our meetings with the NCAA’s leaders over the last two days, we discussed enforcement and sanction issues impacting both the NCAA membership at large and USC […]

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Does the New Basketball Practice System Include More Basketball?

Matt Norlander of CBS Sports has comments from a number of coaches aboason contest. Everyone agrees that this means a longer season, but there seems to be some disagreement over whether it will include a similar amount of basketball, that is time on the court. Some of that will come down to individual approaches to […]

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Deontae Hawkins Eligible for Illinois State Next Year With a Catch

Deontae Hawkins, who originally signed with Wichita State in 2011, will join the Illinois State men’s basketball team this year, but has a couple of hurdles (h/t Jeff Eisenberg of Yahoo! Sports) to being eligible. First, despite a year of prep school, Hawkins is a nonqualifier, and as such will not be allowed to practice […]

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Les Miles Pushes NCAA Publicity Rules to the Limit

Asked indirectly about Dylan Moses, a ninth grade running back who committed to LSU over the weekend, LSU head coach Les Miles responded indirectly: When Miles was asked about the freshman phenom by reporters on Monday, the coach responded, “Certain guys (have) ability to evaluated as youngsters … I’ve watched him in certain games and […]

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NCAA Publishes the “Willie Lyles Rule”

After Cam Newton and his father Cecil were found to not have committed a serious NCAA violation, much was made of the NCAA’s efforts to close this loophole. That resulted in the NCAA’s new definition of an agent which took over a year to be adopted and only addressed one aspect of the issues in […]

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More NCAA Trouble for West Texas A&M

After firing its head football coach and announcing an NCAA investigation into the football program in separate incidents, West Texas A&M is in more hot water with its football team. Kyle Voss, a redshirt senior linebacker will be suspended a total of four games for an NCAA violation. The university proposed a two-game suspension to […]

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