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UGA Reports One Violation In Spring Semester

Georgia reported just one NCAA secondary violation between January 1 and May 13, a minor countable athletically related activities (CARA) violation in the softball program: Head softball coach Lu Harris-Champer reported her team practiced for four hours and 15 minutes on March 5, which is a violation of NCAA’s daily hour limitations. According to NCAA […]

Triathlon Takes Major Step Toward Becoming Next NCAA Sport

The NCAA’s Committee on Women’s Athletics has recommended all three divisions introduce legislation to make triathlon the next emerging sport for women. If adopted, NCAA triathlon competition would start in the fall of 2014. The recommendation from CWA is for athletes to participate in four to six triathlon meets per year. The competition format would […]

The Graduate Transfer Exception vs. the Graduate Transfer Waiver

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 […]

Former DII Head Coach Cited For Providing Prescription Drugs

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 […]

Saint Mary’s, Randy Bennett File NCAA Appeals

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 […]

FSU Signee May Need Rare NLI Appeal

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. […]

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Major Division II Academic Changes Take Step Forward

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 […]

Tangled McLemore Saga Unlikely To End Well

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 […]

NCAA Leadership Council Scales Back Potential Transfer Changes

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 […]

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2016 Sliding Scale is Out According to Baylor Compliance

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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