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Today Freakonomics posted a pay-for-play plan for college basketball players. As one would expect from economists, it boiled down to “no rules, let the free market decide”. Considering that we may be 5–10 years and a coin flip away from this no being a thought exercise and becoming a legally mandated negotiation, I have three […]
In what has become as much of a March tradition as the NCAA Tournament itself, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan used the start of March Madness to speak out about the ills of college athletics in their current state. For a couple of years, the focus was on graduation rates and postseason access. With that […]
The override period for the proposals adopted by the Board of Directors in January ended today with a total of four proposals being sent back for reconsideration. Along with 13–2 not being adopted, that means 21 of the 26 initial deregulation proposals are finalized. Two proposals, RWG–11–2 and RWG 13–5-A were suspended earlier this week […]
Last week the NCAA made its second major attempt to quash the class-action lawsuit headlined by Ed O’Bannon regarding student-athlete likenesses and their use in video games and game broadcasts. Along the way the plaintiffs have won a number of victories, but no more important than defeating the NCAA’s motion to strike new claims from […]
Forgotten in the NCAA’s announcement yesterday that two proposals had been suspended is that a third coming close to the 75 necessary override requests will not be touched at this time. RWG Proposal 13–3, which allows for unlimited phone calls and text messages to prospects starting June 15 prior to their senior year, is still […]
The Division I Board of Directors suspended two regulation proposals, RWG Proposals 11–2 and 13–5-A on Monday. The rules, supposed to go into effect August 1, would have allowed any staff member to perform some recruiting tasks and allowed almost any printed correspondence to be mailed to prospects. The suspension comes just two days before […]
Division III College of Staten Island has received a Notice of Allegations from the NCAA involving their swimming and diving program: CSI dismissed long-time swimming coach and director of aquatics Oleg Soloviev in November 2011. Soloviev told the Advance at that time he had been the focus of an NCAA investigation that he said resulted […]
Update: Evaluations during a prospect’s junior year are permitted only at the school until the April recruiting period, not January 1. Also a blanket waiver is in effect taking care of the junior college issue for now. On Thursday, the NCAA’s academic and membership affairs staff went on an interpretations binge, issuing seven staff interps […]
The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia approved a new oversight plan, which takes some major athletics decisions out of the hands of the individual campuses and requires them to present detailed plans to the regents for approval. New guidelines require institutional presidents to first notify the chancellor of athletic plans and […]
Like the coaches involved in the case, Miami will file a “motion” to have the NCAA’s infractions case against the school dismissed. One problem: But according to two sources, the NCAA last week sent a letter to UM and the implicated former coaches with a warning: The infractions committee “does not believe it has the […]
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