by Kent Sterling Talking about sports used to be so easy. Who won? Who lost? Why did one team win, and the other lose. Is Peyton Manning the best quarterback of all time? Will the Pacers win a championship? Will an Indiana team earn a spot in the NCAA Tournament? Questions without black and white […]
by Kent Sterling Mary Willingham is a polarizing person in the college athletics world. Her research shows 60% of the University of North Carolina football and men’s basketball players with whom she worked as an academic advisor read and write at anywhere from a 4th to 8th grade level, and 10% don’t fare quite that well. […]
by Kent Sterling The fuss is perplexing to me. The just course is so clear. The debate is silly. The American way is to reward those who provide value. Coaches get paid more and more money. Nick Saban makes more than $7 million for coaching football at Alabama. That’s a lot of cash for a […]
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 […]
