There has been a heaping helping of good and a small portion of not so good during the 11 1/12 years Indiana University Athletic Director Fred Glass has been on the job. Glass has one day left until his resignation takes effect and Scott Dolson takes the role he has coveted through his tenure as Glass’s lieutenant. The bar […]
Here comes college football! There is zero chance Power Five schools will act as one to punt the upcoming college football season. Players want to play, coaches want to coach, and school/conference administrators want money. There is no constituency tethered to college football that would champion a cancellation or suspension of the season, so all that is […]
Nothing screams “The NCAA has it twisted and backwards” like the headline to its announcement on likely changes to its rules governing a student-athlete’s ability to profit for his or her brand value: “The NCAA’s highest governing body has taken unprecedented steps to allow college athletes to be compensated for their name, image and likeness” What […]
February and March are usually quiet months for Indiana Football. News from the football program usually creates no more than a small ripple across the Hoosier state. Not so much this year. Yesterday, we found out that freshman running back Sampson James entered his name in the transfer portal, but that might not have been the […]
The quarterback room at Indiana University potentially got a little less crowded today. Incumbent IU starting quarterback Peyton Ramsey has entered his name in the NCAA’s transfer portal for the purpose of finding a new home for the 2020 season. If Ramsey chooses to leave Indiana for a program he perceives to a better fit, he will […]
Indiana University football coach Tom Allen tweeted the image to the left on Sunday, and I don’t agree with a word of it. Many responded to the comment I attached to a retweet of Allen’s message with indictments of our soft society and calls for people to read the right books, listen to the right music, […]
LSU plays Clemson in college football’s National Championship tonight, and the Superdome will be packed. That’s not the case for many games – even in the SEC where college football dominates campus conversations. Attendance has fallen over the last decade and people are trying to figure out why. Is it a new focus for students on […]
Indiana lost to Tennessee last night’s Gator Bowl after leading by 13 with under five minutes left. We can spend a lot of time talking about what happened – blown onside kick recovery, wasted timeouts, bad clock management, missed kicks – OR we can focus on what should be THE story of the 2019 Hoosiers. Peyton […]
It is said by very astute business leaders that the chances of making a terrible decision increases with every additional person involved in the process. Indiana University appears to be testing the limits of that axiom with the formation of a 14-person search committee to find the replacement for athletic director Fred Glass. The committee […]
There is a lot that goes into being an athletic director of a Big 10 school, and Fred Glass will continue to do it all at the highest level until he retires at the end of the academic year. Those who point to the mediocrity of the basketball program relative to expectations as a Glass failure miss […]
