by Kent Sterling To compensate student-athletes for their participation in a revenue sport through a scholarship that provides an education he is not ready or able to use is immoral. That’s Mary Willingham’s position as she tells the truth about the reading level of North Carolina football and basketball players. She says that as a […]
by Kent Sterling Someone had to pay for a defense that had no chance to stop Navy – or anyone else, and defensive coordinator Doug Mallory and defensive line coach Jon Fabris became those people this morning. The leader of a defense that ranked last in the Big Ten the last three seasons, and 120th […]
by Kent Sterling Indiana University Athletics is in the midst of an interesting time of growth and challenge. People leaving, people coming, teams in ascension, and another trying to find its collective personality. Cody Latimer has concluded that he will be drafted high enough to make the decision to forego his senior year and the […]
by Kent Sterling Over the first three years of the Kevin Wilson era, Indiana’s football team has earned a 10-26 record, but the arrow is pointing in the right direction because Wilson displays the traits of a very effective leader. Changing an almost relentless pattern of mediocrity at best doesn’t happen in a year or […]
by Kent Sterling When? I don’t know, but college athletes who demonstrate value related to revenue generation for their schools will be paid for their services beyond the cost of a college education. It might be in two years, five years, or 20 years, but student-athletes who are forced to utilize college athletics as a […]
by Kent Sterling There is one player at the table with a very tall stack of chips in front of him in the Nick Saban sweepstakes, and that is Nick Saban. There is nothing Alabama officials and fans would like more than for Saban to sign the extension to his current deal, but Saban has […]
Oregon Snowball Fight – a Little Harmless Fun Gone Awry, But Biggest Problem Caused by Professor
by Kent Sterling This is what college students do, and if my shoulder wasn’t fried by starting and participating in a thousand too many snowball fights, I would still be doing the same thing. And I would have been front and center in this melee had I been in Eugene, Oregon, last Friday. For those […]
by Kent Sterling People in the media are fond of invoking the phrase “Innocent until proven guilty” in describing the reason they support Jameis Winston’s Heisman candidacy. That burden of evaluating evidence and rendering a decision is for a jury to use in a court of law, not Heisman voters deciding for whom to vote […]
by Kent Sterling All college football fans love ESPN College Football Gameday, and this Saturday it comes to Pan Am Plaza in downtown Indianapolis prior to the Big Ten Championship Game. This is Gameday’s first trip to Indy, so if you have a particularly clever sign idea, now is your chance to get it on […]
by Kent Sterling “People are stupid” is a simple statement, but it explains almost everything wrong with our society. Obamacare website malfunctions, the cancellation of “Arrested Development”, and full season ticket renewals to watch the Chicago Cubs are only justified by acknowledging humanity’s inability to process information correctly. College Football needs the playoff due to […]