by Kent Sterling For the majority of college athletes, the NCAA does its job quite nicely. Athletes earn degrees and learn the incredibly important lessons that the adversity of competing provides. The school gets notoriety, a marketing platform, and a campus esprit de corps. Players get education. Nice. But rules aren’t written to provide cover […]
by Kent Sterling The Big Ten made a few smart calls today by announcing the conference football championship will be played in Indianapolis at Lucas Oil Stadium through 2021, and that the women’s basketball tournament will be held at Bankers Life Fieldhouse from 2017-2022. When a city has been built specifically as a host site […]
by Kent Sterling There is going to come a breaking point in this process of separation between the 65 big conference schools and the other NCAA Division One schools, and it moved a couple of steps closer with a letter authored by the Pac-12 presidents that was sent to the other 53 presidents of the […]
by Kent Sterling The great Pauly Balst called and texted this morning demanding that something be done to help Boise State football recruit Antoine Turner. The kid is homeless, and living in a car until he is allowed to report to campus. “We need to put him up until he gets to report to Boise. […]
by Kent Sterling The NCAA was a miscast target of one of the greatest collegiate athletes of all time. Hall of famer Jim Brown correctly feels that college football and men’s basketball players are exploited, but hanging responsibility on the Indianapolis based organization that oversees college athletics misses the mark. NCAA president Mark Emmert and […]
by Kent Sterling The time has come for Florida State University to say goodbye to quarterback and pitcher Jameis Winston, who has shown a complete disregard for rules during the past 18 months. It’s not for one individual incident, but for the totality of his missteps while in Tallahassee. Shoplifting $32.72 worth of crab legs, as […]
by Kent Sterling What I have always loved about Dan Dakich as a radio host is that he is not swayed by the prevailing media winds. His perspectives on 1070 the Fan are unique and developed through experience as a player and coach, as well as animated discussions he has with himself. Yesterday, he said […]
by Kent Sterling There are two kinds of leaders – proactive and reactive. Proactive leaders pick apart their own dogma, rules, and strategies to make adjustments that enact improvements prior to external critique. Reactive leaders put out fires, take public temperatures with polls, and adjust based upon which way the wind blows. Some towns and […]
by Kent Sterling Talent and fame extract idiots from trouble all the time, but there are behaviors allowable by being Alden Smith of the San Francisco 49ers are meaningless. There is a saying, “That’s as dumb as yelling bomb in an airport.” Smith put that to the test yesterday as he literally did exactly that […]
by Kent Sterling It’s time for the big money schools to declare independence from the NCAA. Schools not in the big five conferences (Big Ten, ACC, SEC, Pac 12, and Big 12) are served very well through their membership to the NCAA. At that level, the term student-athlete is entire appropriate. The chances of a […]
