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NCAA Proposes New Football Rules to Enhance Player Safety
The NCAA has announced new rule proposals to make the game safer for players, and unlike the $2000 stipend, I can't imagine these rules being overruled by the membership. The five proposals are largely concerning special teams, and they are as follows: Kickoffs and touchbacks: Kickoffs go from the...
Football Scholarship Total to Remain at 85
The NCAA Board of Directors Saturday voted down a proposal to cut football scholarships for D-1 programs from 85 to 80. The Board did reaffirm the desire to provide a $2,000 "miscellaneous expense allowance" for athletes on full scholarship. The Board voted 14-4 to send it back to a work group to...
NCAA Proposal Would Cut Football Scholarships to 80
Saturday, the NCAA Board of Directors will vote on several sweeping rules changes, including cutting the total of football scholarships from 85 to 80. The Board of Directors will also vote on a proposal to reduce women's basketball scholarships from 15 to 13. University of Nebraska Chancellor...
Dreams Unfulfilled, Graduate Unskilled -- NCAA Athletics and Exploitation
Taylor Branch’s article in this month's Atlantic Monthly (it's more than Andrew Sullivan now!) about how the myths of amateurism and student-athletes allow the NCAA and its constituent schools to rake it in from the efforts and injuries of young revenue sport athletes is a must read if you love...
The Nerd's Guide to College Football Fandom
Or: Academic rankings are more interesting when football is half the grade Americans love rankings like their freedom. They also love the freedom to read too much into such rankings despite their arbitrary metrics and questionable significance. And so, once again the coming of fall marks the...
2011 Kansas Football Preview: Jayhawk State of the Union
If it isn’t obvious who lost the BC office Game of Thrones, then go read texags.com and leave me the hell alone. Someone had to stage a coup d’état to steal my Baylor assignment from me. Now I feel like some stupid third world dictator that didn’t know he wasn’t king until the bullet passed...
Bill Byrne is Fightin' Texas Aggie Mad!
I came across this story on our Sooner blog. Apparently Bill Byrne has the Hefty bags out and is girding his legs and loins for battle. I always wonder, when Bill means business, does he go for the CinchSak or BlackOut? Maybe SteelSak. Anyway, the Aggies have gone to the NCAA and asked them to...
Tar Heels Step Into Tar Hell
After spending a year mired in scandals, and giving Coach Butch Davis several votes of confidence, the North Carolina Tar Heels, in an astonishing example of horrid timing, finally fired Davis. The North Carolina football program has been a mess for almost a year, from various academic scandals...
SEC Commissioner: We Have Lost The Benefit of The Doubt
While the internet and other forms of social media are all atwitter over the LHN and more speculation of conference expansion, real news is being made at the SEC Media Days. The most powerful man in college football says it is time to institute major reforms in the game -- and he has ear of...
Gene Chizik Says The NCAA Is Hurting Auburn's Recruiting
Gene Chizik was in Destin, FLA last month at an annual SEC meeting attended by all the men’s hoops coaches, football coaches and athletic directors from that conference, AKA the people who pay the freight. We used to frequent Destin on Spring Break trips. I've actually talked my way out of going...
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