University presidents screwed up as they refused to adjust to what is good and right in dealing with their athletes and the right to monetize their image. Now states like California are eager to force their hand. California’s SB 206, signed into law yesterday, seeks to correct the arrogance so pervasive in academia, where old and learned men […]
Universities making up the membership of the NCAA do not like change – especially when that change doesn’t stuff their coffers with cash. They turn downright petulant when the idea of athletes earning money is advanced. When bureaucrats and administrators get angry, they dash offs letters filled with cleverly worded threats and at least a dozen […]
Because the Old Oaken Bucket Game between Indiana and Purdue is played on the Saturday following Thanksgiving, both IU and Purdue students are home for the long weekend rather than in Bloomington and West Lafayette. That’s the argument for moving the Bucket Game from a rotating home and home series to Lucas Oil Stadium. If […]
Cleaning up college basketball is easy. But it requires a difficult decision, so it will never get done. As we learned (again) last week as Michael Avenatti’s lawyers filed briefs detailing Nike’s authorization to pay Zion Williamson $35,000 or more and $20,000 to Romeo Langford, shoe companies routinely pay families of athletes in an effort […]
College athletes should be allowed to transfer without penalty, but only at the end of a semester and season. If a student-athlete believes his or her needs are better served elsewhere regardless of rationale, there should be no impediment toward studying and competing at that university. I believe that because collegiate athletics should exist solely […]
Ohio State head football coach Urban Meyer was suspended yesterday for the first three games of the season as the result of a university investigation into his handling of a 2015 domestic violence complaint by the wife of an assistant coach. I get it. Domestic violence is a societal scourge, and its victims deserve our […]
What did Urban Meyer know, when did he know it, and what did he do with the information? The last question is the most important. It’s that simple. What we know is this – former receivers coach Zach Smith was physically abusive to his ex-wife in 2009 and 2015, and likely at points in between […]
My son played college basketball, and there wasn’t a day while he was at Loyola of Chicago that I didn’t hope coaches and trainers were intently looking after his well being. Health is everything, and I know coaches can be blinded by the need to win. I didn’t care much about winning – I just […]
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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