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Tennessee reported 10 secondary violations over the past six months, and posted 20 including some that had already been reported to their website. It’s the normal grab-bag of accidental tweets here, a little extra benefit there, and a basketball tryout violation which would have been fine if it had occurred in April rather than September. […]
The headline rule change proposed by the NCAA’s Football Rules Committee was stronger penalties for players who target defenseless opponents, with all such hits earning a 15-yard penalty and an automatic ejection. But a couple of the others have garnered attention despite being seemingly minor changes. One change would affect end of game situations: To […]
Baseball occupies a funny place in college athletics right now. On the one hand, it probably has never been a better time for college baseball. The sport has a grand new home in Omaha for its championship series. Schools are investing money in the sport and taking it far more seriously than previously. The NCAA […]
Now that the Big Ten has throw its hat into the ring as opposed to a number of the deregulation proposals, it seems worth it to start watching the override requests. Given the legislative process used by the Board of Directors, skipping the Legislative Council, this is really the only opportunity for schools to voice […]
The Big Ten released this statement about three of the rule changes adopted by the NCAA at the recent convention as part of the Rules Working Group’s deregulation package. The Big Ten asks that RWG Proposals 11-2 (expanding who can recruit), 13-3 (unlimited contact), and 13-5-A (unregulated recruiting materials) be tabled, along with the currently […]
Penn State offensive lineman Garry Gilliam was granted a sixth-year waiver by the NCAA: Gilliam suffered a serious knee injury in the 2010 Big Ten opener at Iowa, the fifth game of the season, and missed the entire 2011 campaign. A tight end during the 2010 and 2012 seasons, Gilliam suffered a torn anterior cruciate […]
Ole Miss stayed in the recruiting news after its signing day performance when a junior recruit posted a picture of the 54 handwritten letters the Rebels sent him. This is not the first time Ole Miss has tried recruiting via letter. Last summer, Hugh Freeze and company sent 32 handwritten letters to a Penn State […]
The NCAA has denied a waiver filed by Wichita State for Oklahoma transfer Chase Simpson. Wichita State will file an appeal, but that will be the longest of long shots: [Associate AD Korey] Torgerson, in his report to the NCAA, asked it to allow Simpson a waiver because he walked on and the coach who […]
Occidental College, a Division III school near Los Angeles, received a charge of failure to monitor among other major violations. The violations arose out of impermissible benefits and recruiting by the women’s volleyball program and impermissible recruiting by the head football coach. The head volleyball coach arranged for three of his athletes to work with […]
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 […]
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