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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said that in response to complaints about the NCAA’s system of enforcement, that Congress should investigate the association: “Jerry Tarkanian made it into the [basketball] hall of fame,” Mr. Reid said, The Hill reported. “Why didn’t he get in earlier? Because this courageous man took on the NCAA, which has […]
Yesterday CBSSports.com reported that the NCAA enforcement staff has filed a response with the Committee on Infractions. News that the Committee on Infractions denied Miami’s motion would not have been noteworthy. The Committee on Infractions has repeatedly said it does not have the authority to dismiss the case at this juncture. But the enforcement staff […]
In the wake of the Rutgers scandal, Andy Staples of Sports Illustrated places a measure of blame at the feet of the NCAA, and asks the association, specifically NCAA president Mark Emmert, to do a bit of penance: He would propose emergency legislation that immediately eliminates the rule that requires athletes receive a release from […]
Iowa State has recommended to the Division I Committee on Infractions that it be placed on probation for two years for phone call violations committed from 2008 to 2011. An extensive audit revealed a smattering of impermissible phone calls and one bigger issue: Iowa State said that out of approximately 750,000 total calls made by […]
If you are going to fight the NCAA in court, you have to be smart about it. The NCAA has had some impressive winning streaks, punctuated by a few significant losses and a conservative strategy with settlements. As much as the association looks to be getting battered in court right now, the NCAA is still […]
Stipends covering all or part of the gap between the NCAA’s full grant-in-aid and the cost of attendance at an institution have bogged down in the NCAA. The $2,000 miscellaneous expense allowance was shelved under heavy opposition. Need-based plans may not end up assisting the football and men’s basketball players that generate the revenue for […]
Kevin Ware’s unfortunate leg injury in Louisville’s Elite Eight game against Duke has been a convenient chance to pile on the NCAA. Among the accusations is that it is possible, even likely, that Ware will both lose his scholarship and be stuck footing the bills for a long recovery. Much of this fear is based […]
Harrow started his college career at North Carolina State for the 2010–11 academic year. He transferred to Kentucky and sat out the Wildcats’ run to the national championship in 2011–12. This year he started 24 times for Kentucky. At the beginning of the year Harrow left the team because his father suffered a stroke. Harrow […]
Ron Holmes, the father of star UCLA freshman Shabazz Muhammad, had groomed his son for stardom from a very young age. When it came time to navigate the NCAA hurdles that faced both any top basketball recruit as well as Muhammad specifically, Holmes was more than prepared: For more than two years, he had been […]
On Thursday, Southeastern Louisiana self-reported the most recent in a string of mass ineligibility violations. SLU announced that from 2005–06 to 2009–10, 137 student-athletes were improperly certified, and thus not eligible for competition. Like many of these violations, the problem was not the academic performance of the athletes. The problem was the paperwork. “This was […]
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