Breakfast with Kent – IU Football opens tomorrow; NCAA must act! Vic ranked 4th on Pacers
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Whining about how the Big 10 made this suddenly savory college football sausage is unnecessary. Why allow bitterness over process disrupt our joy? Just a few minutes ago, conference bigwigs concluded their media zoom call in which they outlined several parameters for football’s return and explained their change of heart leading to the unanimous approval from presidents and chancellors. […]
Fan frustration and confusion because the Big 10 and Pac-12 canceled college football is being driven by inconsistent protocols designed to help preserve health and life that are applied unevenly. Click here for your copy of “Oops – the Art of Learning from Mistakes and Adventures” by Kent Sterling There are questions and anecdotal reports from friends, […]
“Never rush to solve a crisis,” is a quote that should be hanging in the office of every manager, coach, and department head, and the Big 10 is on the precipice of violating that immutable tenet. Big 10 presidents are meeting this morning to decide how to handle the building storm surrounding the decision to play […]
College football will likely not be played this fall. The MAC punted their season yesterday, and the Big 10 in likely to say adios tomorrow, according to reports. And that is bad news for everyone. Conversely, Big 10 universities plan of being open for business. Yes, the dorms, frats, and sororities will be filled with 18-to-22-year-olds […]
Indiana University tight end Peyton Hendershot has been fully reinstated to the football program, and I have a problem with that. In February, Hendershot was arrested for felony residential entry and misdemeanor domestic battery, criminal mischief and criminal conversion as the result of an incident with his girlfriend where he questioned her faithfulness, took her smart […]
The Ivy League has announced what many already assumed – fall sports are canceled. That’s bad news for student-athletes and fans at those institutions, but what does it mean for college football elsewhere? Two days prior to the shutdown of college basketball conference tournaments and the NBA, the Ivy League pulled the plug on its event, […]
There has been a heaping helping of good and a small portion of not so good during the 11 1/12 years Indiana University Athletic Director Fred Glass has been on the job. Glass has one day left until his resignation takes effect and Scott Dolson takes the role he has coveted through his tenure as Glass’s lieutenant. The bar […]
Here comes college football! There is zero chance Power Five schools will act as one to punt the upcoming college football season. Players want to play, coaches want to coach, and school/conference administrators want money. There is no constituency tethered to college football that would champion a cancellation or suspension of the season, so all that is […]
Nothing screams “The NCAA has it twisted and backwards” like the headline to its announcement on likely changes to its rules governing a student-athlete’s ability to profit for his or her brand value: “The NCAA’s highest governing body has taken unprecedented steps to allow college athletes to be compensated for their name, image and likeness” What […]