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97 schools sign petition against stipend
ESPN.com
December 15, 2011The NCAA's plan to give athletes a $2,000 stipend may be in trouble. The legislation, passed in October, now faces an override challenge at January's annual NCAA convention, a decision that could create an unusual discrepancy between recruits who have already signed national letters-of-intent and those who have not. David Berst, the Division I vice president of governance, said 97 schools have signed onto the override measure, more than the 75 needed for the NCAA board to reconsider the stipend. If that number hits 125 by Dec. 26, the legislation would be suspended.
What the Hell Has Happened to College Sports?
Chronicle of Higher Education - Commentary
December 11, 2011No wonder they call it big-time sports. College athletics programs pull in about $106-billion in revenue annually. But the challenges facing college sports may outweigh any dollar amount. What would you change, if you could? That's what The Chronicle asked several innovative thinkers who know and care about sports. And this is what they said.
NCAA to Consider Controversial Cuts in Scholarships and Athletic-Staff Sizes
Chronicle of Higher Education
December 9, 2011Major-college football and women's basketball programs would see a reduction of scholarships, and athletic departments would face controversial staff-size limitations, under a set of cost-cutting proposals to be considered by the NCAA's Division I Board of Directors, according to an NCAA document obtained by The Chronicle. The ideas, which also include cuts to foreign travel and a cap on the number of contests and dates of competition at the current level across Division I sports, were approved this week by a working group aimed at reining in spending on elite sports.
Houston Nutt, Hugh Freeze at opposite pay ends for Ole Miss
USA Today
December 4, 2011Among schools in the NCAA's Bowl Subdivision whose coaches completed the season, Mississippi set the standard for cost inefficiency by paying nearly $1.4 million for each of the two wins recorded by the now-fired Houston Nutt. Monday, the school hired the FBS' lowest-paid and most cost-effective coach: Hugh Freeze, whose 10 wins, including an 8-0 record in Sun Belt Conference play, cost Arkansas State guaranteed pay of just more than $20,000 apiece.
Fixing College Sports: Why Paying Student Athletes Won't Work
New York Magazine - Commentary
November 29, 2011The abuses in college athletics - and they are real - stem from the growing imposition of market forces. Institutionalizing that ethos would almost certainly make all those abuses worse. That's why the constantly expressed demand that we put college athletes on professional salary is so ill-formed. It is not so much a plan as an expression of free-floating contempt for college sports.
Syracuse fires assistant basketball coach Fine
Associated Press
November 27, 2011Bernie Fine was fired Sunday by Syracuse University after a third man accused the assistant basketball coach of molesting him nine years ago. Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim said he supported the university's decision to fire his longtime assistant and expressed regret for his initial statements that might have been "insensitive to victims of abuse.
The NCAA Crosses a Line
Inside Higher Ed
November 23, 2011To judge from what is known at this point, so many things appeared to go wrong at Penn State that it seems logical that there is something for the major governing body in college sports to look into. After all, almost everyone else is, including the federal government. But the association's decision to get involved in the Penn State situation is without precedent in its history, say several experts on NCAA enforcement.
Penn St. illustrates outsized influence of sports
Associated Press - Commentary
November 23, 2011Joe Paterno, Rick Pitino and Mack Brown - millionaires all and many times over. Their bosses? Go ahead. Try to name them. Even if you can - Graham Spanier, James R. Ramsey and William C. Powers, for the record - they're not household names. When it comes to their salaries, it's as though they're working in different worlds, not on the same campus. Call it an imbalance of priorities or tipping the scales, but it happens all across America when multimillion-dollar athletic programs become the face of a university instead of the other way around.
Colleges and Universities Are Ill-Prepared for Crises
Huffington Post - Opinion Piece
November 21, 2011When my colleagues and I first started doing surveys of the crisis preparedness of major colleges and universities, we were shocked but not totally surprised to find that as poorly prepared large business organizations generally are for major crises, colleges and universities were even worse off. It is not that they are completely unprepared. Rather, the difference is between the crises that they are relatively well prepared for versus those that they barely prepared for, if at all.
Reflecting on a Riot
Inside Higher Ed
November 11, 2011Many student affairs professionals reflecting on the episode Thursday sympathized with all those for whom the symbolism and ideals of Penn State have almost instantaneously been eviscerated - even, to an extent, with those who chose to vent their frustrations in not-so-productive ways. And, they said, now that the anger has subsided, everyone can start to move on.
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