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Dick Chatelain of the Omaha World-Herald: Dean Blais and Jaycob Megna violated NCAA rules when the coach reimbursed the player $400 after Megna’s wristwatch was taken from the CenturyLink Center locker room in October 2012. They won’t be with UNO when it faces New Hampshire (Jan. 3-4) and Minnesota-Duluth (Jan. 10). The Mavs’ program won’t […]
Gary Klein of the Los Angeles Times: Mike Davis, a throwing coach who helped Basham win a state shotput title, told The Times that Tosh Lupoi, Washington’s defensive line coach, gave him $3,000 to cover private tutoring for [Andrew] Basham through a test preparation company. Davis said he also received $1,500 from Lupoi to reimburse […]
In a release today, the NCAA announced that it has reinstated North Carolina men’s basketball student-athlete Leslie McDonald. McDonald was suspended for nine games, a standard 30% of the season and ordered to pay restitution to charity in the amount of $1,783. But the final sentence of the release is the most fascinating: At this […]
Steve Brandon of the Portland Tribune, writing about a waiver filed by the University of Portland on behalf of women’s basketball student-athlete Kaylie Van Loo: The uncertainty at the time was because UP officials had decided to file a waiver that would have allowed Van Loo to begin playing last weekend, after the first semester. […]
Add Dominque Booth, a wide receiver prospect from Indiana, to the list of football players who are signing grant-in-aid agreements before they even commit to a school. But Booth’s recruitment reveals an additional wrinkle to this practice, as outlined by the Indianapolis Star’s Zach Osterman: A recruiting dead period starts Sunday. Indiana is hoping to […]
Phil Sheridan writing for ESPN.com about potential interest by Texas in Philadelphia Eagles head coach Chip Kelly: Kelly is also limited to some degree by the “show cause” order placed on him by the NCAA for recruiting violations at Oregon. That 18-month penalty likely wouldn’t deter a college team from hiring Kelly. While Kelly’s show-cause […]
Steve Berkowitz of USA Today: Thursday night, the NCAA argued there are five justifications for the compensation limits — and it unloaded 87 exhibits to back those justifications. Among the exhibits are new statements from nine college presidents or chancellors, six conference commissioners and six athletics directors, as well as excerpts from recently taken depositions […]
USA Today’s Nicole Auerbach captured this quote from NCAA President Mark Emmert about the upcoming changes to the governance model: Emmert suggested that Big 5 members would look at areas where they could improve the welfare of student-athletes, such as implementing a stipend to cover the full cost of attendance, providing more meals and addressing […]
During the 2013 IMG Intercollegiate Athletics Forum, co-presented by Sports Business Journal, Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany dropped this nugget: Delany: Asking us to pay players is like asking pro teams to require athletes to be in full-time study. — Dan Wolken (@DanWolken) December 11, 2013 The response to Delany’s comment has been to question […]
The NCAA today closed the Southeastern Louisiana Case which arose from an APR audit that began in 2008. The case was resolved via summary disposition and ended up with SELU agreeing to a charge of lack of institutional control: Southeastern Louisiana lacked control over its athletics department when it failed to monitor its certification process. […]
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