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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 […]
The Power Five conferences each individually announced yesterday a new protocol for bringing balance to the lives of student-athlete. Among the new edicts – students must have eight consecutive hours off between 9p-6a, and travel days are no longer counted as off days. Good ideas all, but they don’t go nearly far enough to balance […]
Kevin Wilson has done the impossible by earning a contract extension at Indiana. After 20 years of shuttling one coach after another through Bloomington, it seems Indiana has settled on its long-term solution. Worth $2,550,000 per season, the extension sets Wilson up through 2021 as the architect of a program that has slowly progressed over […]
The reasons not to play high school football are widely discussed, and most have to do with the long-term brain health of participants. CTE is a fact of life for many of those who receive repeated blows to the noodle, and the results are horrifying for those who suffer from it and their families. That’s […]
by Kent Sterling Since human beings stood upright, we have hated each other for confoundingly silly reasons – religion, nationality, color of hair, jealousy over intellect and wealth, and many more. For a few minutes less than the history of our species, people who were hated expressed their dislike for being hated. Click here to […]
