August 3, 2018
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Let’s say a shoe company guy pays $50,000 to the guardian of a five-star basketball recruit, and he enrolls in a school with an apparel deal with that same company. Is that an NCAA violation? The shoe company guy isn’t an employee of the school and the recruit may be unaware of the guardian’s greed. […]
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Anyone who has read anything I have ever written about college athletics and the relationship between a school and its athletes knows that I err on the side of the athletes. They should be able to control and profit from their images, and if John Calipari and Nick Saban are worth more than $7,000,000 per year […]
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Student-athletes at the University of North Carolina were enrolled in classes that awarded excellent grades without requiring any work. That is academic fraud. Because of fancy lawyering by those representing the school, the NCAA will likely look the other way, and that’s too bad for the athletes who are promised an education in exchange for […]
Indiana University’s football program is the losingest in the history of college football. I bring that up only to reinforce the difficulty of executing a longterm pivot from terrible to bad to mediocre to good to championship contender. It’s taken a long time to get here – wherever on that continuum you believe the Hoosiers to […]