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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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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
No undergraduate student on Indiana University’s campus was alive the last time the Hoosiers went to a bowl in consecutive seasons. Indiana remains the losingest program in college football history. So did Indiana coach Kevin Wilson lose his mind/slip a cog/have bubbles in his think tank when he boasted about the potential for his sixth IU team […]
