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Slow Adoption of Multiyear Scholarships is Good News

The initial reaction to the news from Brad Wolverton and Jonah Newman that multi-year scholarships are slowly catching on amongst public BCS schools is likely to be negative. This was supposed to be a landmark moment in the push for greater student-athlete protections. But with just the option, not the mandate, for longer scholarships, their […]

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IMG Moves Into Fundraising

IMG College’s long, slow takeover of college athletic departments moved into a new phase a couple days ago when Sports Business Journal reported that Damon Evans, the former Georgia AD, will be tapped to start up the company’s fundraising group. Like sponsorships and ticket sales, IMG will assist schools with fundraising and may ultimately take […]

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Kelly No-Show at Hearing Would Help Ducks

Chip Kelly Can Still Help Oregon With the failure of Oregon and the NCAA enforcement staff to come to a summary disposition agreement that satisfied the Committee on Infractions, the Ducks are headed for a hearing. That raises the question of whether former Oregon, now Philadelphia Eagles head coach Chip Kelly will come to the […]

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Oregon Missed Out on Favorable Ruling

Oregon Missed Out on Favorable Ruling First things first, the document drop which Oregon released yesterday is not huge news. The documents mostly add additional detail to Charles Robinson’s report from December that the Committee on Infractions refused to accept the summary disposition agreement between Oregon and the NCAA enforcement staff. Robinson had reported that […]

What is Going on at SD School of Mines?

Accusations by a former coach that the administration was out to get the coach are nothing new. Accusations that minor NCAA violations were blown up from molehills to mountains to justify firing the coach are also not uncommon. But these accusations from a current coach are rare: “He’s tried to push me out from the […]

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NYC Prospects Considering Junior College More

Mitch Abramson of the New York Daily News has an excellent look at how junior college is replacing prep school as the destination of choice for New York City’s prospects who need extra academic work before heading to Division I: “It’s becoming progressively tougher (to qualify for four-year schools), and because of that, the junior […]

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Enforcement Departure No Big Deal

Given the current climate surrounding the NCAA’s enforcement staff, it is no great surprise that a lot of attention was paid to what is normally a non-event: a staff member of a regulatory agency moving into the private sector. Dave Didion, a director of enforcement for the NCAA, finished his 14-year tenure with the association […]

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UCR Baseball Waiting On Eligibility Ruling

UC-Riverside is without its senior infielder Eddie Young while he awaits an NCAA ruling on his eligibility. Young should be a fifth-year senior but an administrative mistake is standing in his way: Young has been sidelined two weeks after the school discovered a paperwork error dating back to his freshman year. In 2009, Young was […]

Graduation Not Required for Graduate Transfer Exception

NCAA Education Columns generally do not include any jaw-dropping revelations, but one published today on the graduate transfer exception included a doozy. Specifically, graduation is not required: Question No. 7: May a student-athlete who does not receive a baccalaureate degree but is accepted for enrollment in a graduate or professional school of an institution other […]

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Bob Stoops Makes Poor Defense of Amateurism

Matt Hayes of Sporting News has an excellent article on Oklahoma head football coach Bob Stoops’ defense of amateurism. In it, Stoops makes many good points, including the value of a scholarship and the difficulty in determining whether a fan bought a jersey or a ticket because of a specific player or because of the […]

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