Category Archives: College Football

Johnnie Vassar lawsuit against NCAA/Northwestern misses the point
November 17, 2016

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 […]

Top seven reasons you should pay attention to University of North Carolina Academic scandal
August 4, 2016

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 […]

Top 10 takeaways from a calmly optimistic Indiana Football Media Day
August 3, 2016

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 […]