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Following membership feedback, the NCAA has refined the list of proposals from the Rules Working Group that will be voted on by the Board of Directors at the NCAA Convention in January. Four proposals are gone from the initial list of 31. Two proposals were dropped in their entirety and two proposals which had alternate […]
Matt Glover, who transferred from Penn State to the University of San Francisco, asked for a waiver to play immediately which was denied. It would seem he had a lot of good reasons for transferring: His mother, Nancy Willson, told CBSSports.com that the Penn State situation, along with family issues, were the reasons she gave […]
Governor Jerry Brown today signed into law a student-athlete bill of rights which will, among other things, require California’s Pac-12 schools does the following: Require schools to pay all medical costs for student-athletes including health insurance premiums for low-income student-athletes; Require schools to provide scholarships to students for up to five years if they are […]
Big changes are coming to the University of North Carolina when it comes to how athletes are admitted and the classes they take: Among the coming changes: tougher admissions requirements for athletes. [UNC Chancellor Holden] Thorp also said in an interview with News & Observer reporters and editors that faculty members will have more oversight […]
Damarcus Harrison will play this year following his transfer from BYU to Clemson after the NCAA granted his waiver based on a mix-up involving his religious mission: Had Harrison been able to begin his mission this fall as he originally planned, he likely would have resumed his basketball career at BYU when he returned. Instead […]
Following the June defeat of a ballot measure to restore the Fighting Sioux nickname, the University of North Dakota has resumed transitioning away from the name and logo. One key element is removing the logo and name from Ralph Englstad Arena. The NCAA initially demanded all traces of the logo be removed now. A new […]
Division II Eastern New Mexico University expects almost all of its sports to suffer some form of NCAA punishment for a wide-ranging violation affecting academic eligibility: The issues were not the fault of students and the university reported them to the NCAA after problems were discovered. The problems range from lack of signatures on required […]
Georgia football’s offensive coordinator Mike Bobo will be banned from football recruiting off-campus for one month due to a secondary violation involving the NCAA Tennis Championships last spring: The violation: escorting a recruit and his mother into the NCAA Tennis Championships on the UGA campus last spring without having them pay the $8 admission fee. […]
Compliance officers already administer a certification exam to coaches each year, but starting soon, they will be taking a test of their own: Those who complete the compliance-certification program—which is expected to cover about 10 different NCAA bylaws and take around three hours to finish online—will receive “continuing compliance education” credits, similar to the continuing-legal-education […]
Jon Solomon of the Birmingham News dug into the NCAA’s Student-Athlete Statement, a required NCAA document with many parts which all student-athletes sign. Research finds that student-athletes objecting to signing is not unheard of and that most compliance officers believe that is fine when it comes to promotional rights: An Ithaca College survey of 213 […]
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