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Academic and Athletic Scholarships Are Not the Same
Today's post on oversigning raised a debate in the comment section that often follows close behind when the topic is raised: isn't pulling a player's athletic scholarship for not playing up to the coach's standards comparable to a student losing his or her academic scholarship for not making high...
Pay For Play? Yes Way!
In a show-me-yours and I'll show-you-mine world measured by the size of your social media following, Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor sports 42,000-plus Twitter followers. Just up the road along I-71, despite having a year's professional experience and a nearly identical number of "tweets,"...
Back to the Future: How the NCAA Can Solve the Problems of Oversigning and Grayshirting in College Football
Sufficient attention has been paid to the practice of oversigning---extending offers to more recruits than the school can place on scholarship---that the issue now has its own weblog. The debate about oversigning has been pushed to the forefront by Les Miles’s recent grayshirting of Elliott Porter....
Scholarships and the NCAA Bylaws
There's been a lot of talk lately about Alabama's scholarship situation. Virtually all of it relies on un-sourced guesstimates of how many scholarships the Tide is obligated (or "obligated") to give out this coming season, and there is much concern (mostly feigned) about how how Coach Saban is...
Beat Coach Pete on Saturday
Running? No, thanks. We get winded from typing.Beat Coach Pete 5k for Student Scholarships [BSU.edu]
Sprints Has No Personal Responsibility for This // 05.28.09
Kentucky Fried Wildcat? All of a sudden, the John Calipari hiring might not be looking like the best decision. The first and worst news concerns allegations of major NCAA violations -- like, somebody taking the SAT for a player violations -- at Memphis while Calipari was the program's head...
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