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Despite the delay from the NCAA discovering that its own investigators violated NCAA procedure in investigating Miami’s recruiting and extra benefits scandal, that case looks to be headed back on track over the next couple of weeks. But in the meantime, another story broke involving Miami and possible NCAA rules violations. The story involves the […]
Myles Crosby, a safety out of Texas, signed with Southern Methodist today. Like a lot of college football players, he will be giving up a lot to devote himself to football. But Crosby will be giving up more than most: Crosby is a pretty well known male model. On Models.com’s rankings he’s ranked 11th among […]
Dennis Dodd of CBSSports is reporting that Julie Roe Lach, the vice president of enforcement at the NCAA, approved payments to Maria Elena Perez, the attorney which the NCAA used to sit in on depositions in Nevin Shaprio’s bankruptcy case: Roe Lach approved “a budget line” for Elena Perez that would pay for “legal fees […]
Jon Solomon has an excellent breakdown of junior college recruiting in advance of Signing Day, including this bit from ESPN’s Tom Luginbill about the upcoming increased junior college standards: “Junior college football is in big trouble if they move forward with this and coaches are livid over this,” ESPN recruiting analyst Tom Luginbill said. “They’re […]
The BCS (or whatever it will soon be called) has announced they have Reid Sigmon, Senior Associate AD and Chief Operating Officer for Kansas State Athletics, as Chief Financial Officer. This is in addition to Bill Hancock as executive director (longtime mouthpiece for the BCS) and Michael Kelly, formerly Senior Associate Commissioner of the ACC […]
Clemson University released details about the violations which lead to the resignation of track and field director Lawrence Johnson. Clemson is waiting for the NCAA to finish its own investigation, but has argued in its self-report that the violations were secondary. The violations included: Allowing a student-athlete who had exhausted his eligibility to compete in […]
Dennis Dodd’s piece about the concentration of power quotes a number of people about the imminent fall, including this gem: “I’d get rid of the NCAA,” said powerful attorney Alan Milstein, who once represented Maurice Clarett at the height of his scandal involving Ohio State. “I believe the NCAA is an anti-trust conspiracy. I think […]
The NCAA’s $75 million Student Assistance Fund is one of the shining examples of the NCAA, almost unimpeachable. It is the easiest thing to point to if you want to argue that the NCAA will do college athletics better than anyone else. Compare it to the BCS and whatever will follow, which earmarks exactly $0 […]
In what is a fairly shocking turn in an already shocking case, an NCAA investigator is defending the tactics used by the enforcement staff in the Miami/Nevin Shapiro case. Critically, the investigator claims that this is about NCAA policy at most, nothing more: This NCAA investigator, who demanded anonymity, raised a different angle to that […]
The NCAA today released the public report of a major infractions case involving the Southern Mississippi men’s tennis program. The case involved just the one team and mostly centered around one athlete on the team, but resulted in a charge of failure to monitor for the institution as well as long show-cause orders for the […]
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