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THE POWER OF THE PRESS … “It’s a disaster. I’m finishing up everything, and I’m going back into retirement.” … Stanley Simmons, founder of University High School, a shady diploma mill in Miami that had no classrooms, teachers or teams but helped numerous athletes quickly earn diplomas. The “school,” which graduated at least 14 students who signed with D1 football programs during the past two years, was pilloried in a lengthy New York Times feature a couple weeks ago. … New York Times, 12-23-05Clips Interview
University of Texas at Tyler Provides Refuge for UNO Basketball Teams ... Clips Editor Nick Infante interviewed Athletic Director and Dean of Student Affairs Dr. Howard Patterson of the University of Texas at Tyler about his school’s kindness in offering safe haven for the University of New Orleans’ men’s and women’s basketball teams.Guest Commentary
Intercollegiate Athletic Corporate Sponsorships and the First Amendment ... ADs might be eager to welcome with open arms corporate sponsors with open checkbooks. But at times a corporate sponsorship could portray a negative image on the university. Providing sponsorship opportunities to certain companies while refusing others could implicate the right to free speech under the First Amendment. Eric Bentley, Assistant General Counsel for the University of Houston System, weighs in with an update.Clips Editorial
The consequences of running up the score ... Clips Editor Nick Infante opines on the after-effects of sports blowouts: the agony (and exultation) of losing (and winning) big. ... posted 12-26-05Monthly Archives
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Study: “Necessary Education for the Success of ADs: NCAA Presidents' Perceptions”
SUNY Brockport professors Robert C. Schneider and William F. Stier Jr. have compiled a must-read study on educational perceptions of college presidents for ADs. Aspiring ADs take note. ... posted 12-14-05APR and Grad Rates for '05-'06 Bowl-Bound Teams
A study by the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport shows that a significant gap remains between African-American and white student-athletes. ... posted 12-5-05D3 athletics / academics excellence: mutually exclusive?
A case study at Haverford College explores the challenges of maintaining academic credibility while establishing athletic competitiveness. ... posted 12-5-05Different Paths to the Corner Office
Some schools excel at football and some at basketball. And some at Fortune 500 CEOs and senators. ... posted 11-28-05Saga of a high school diploma mill
It never ends. The NCAA implements new academic rules, and cheaters concoct new loopholes to bypass them. ... posted 11-27-05Latest Report: decrease in foreign student enrollments
The post 9-11 world has wrought changes in the mosaic that constitutes US campuses and sports programs. ... posted 11-18-05Results of College Presidents’ Tell-All Survey
A largest-of-its-kind survey of 764 college presidents has revealed many nuggets of knowledge. And some yawners too. ... posted 10-31-05Surveys: college costs up, but at slower rate
College Board surveys reveal a slower rate of increase, but poorer students are falling behind. …. posted 10-25-05Knight Foundation provides $1.5 Million Grant to Penn State
Grant will establish an endowed chair at the school’s acclaimed Center for Sports Journalism.Study: athletes take different majors than non-athletes
We’ve always suspected it, now a U-Minnesota study reports that athletes matriculate differently than the rest of the student population.Big man in a little state
President Allen L. Sessoms has attracted a bipolar constituency in his two years at historically black Delaware State University.Where Coaches Recruit for Grades as much as Athletics
There’s D3, and then there’s D3. At the high end there’s recruiting savvy and rigor that’s positively D1-like.Education projections through 2014 released by the DOE
What we’ve all been waiting for: the latest “Projection of Education Statistics.” Chock-full of numbers, tables, charts and graphs, it has it all.The business of America is business; the business of the NCAA is . . . .
It’s hard to deny that college athletics is a business. A lengthy article from the NCAA touts commercial balance, but negative perceptions persist.Pondering college athletics issues as a new year begins
The profound issues of our time: conference switching, have-not D1s, APRs, D3 caps and poor behavior by student-athletes.2005 Rankings Announced for Excellence in Athletics Cup
All NCAA D1 athletic programs were ranked across 11 different indicators to establish a ranking of university athletic programs.The No. 1 of college ranking services?
The Princeton Review’s latest lists of academically and socially superlative schools have a strong correlation to intercollegiate athletics. Sorta.The New Way: Academics and Athletics as Equal Priorities
Despite a flurry of issues pervading college athletics, graduating student-athletes remains a special priority.Website Review: "Best School for Athletes"
Site describes the Student Athlete Performance Ratings (SAPR), which measures athletic opportunity relative to getting a quality college degree.Baseball in the Classroom
One-of-a-kind course at San Francisco State University is a unique combination of history and literature.Clips Reviews Review (huh?)
Sports scholar Mike Nelson authors a superb review of college sports books . . . and Clips reviews his review. Get it?NCAA Releases Revised APRs
The NCAA has issued revised Academic Progress Rates for 6000 teams in 41 D1 sports for the 2003-4 academic year.Faculty Group Running With Its Reform Mandate
The Coalition for Intercollegiate Athletics is gearing up to improve faculty oversight of D1 athletics.NCAA Re-Jiggers APRs
The first revision of the first APRs resulted in 651 D1 teams going up and 236 teams going down.ClipsBlips
10 most powerful women in sports in 2005 (as selected by Dan Weil of FOXSports.com): Maria Sharapova: Russian tennis star, ranked No. 1 for part of the year; Sheila Johnson: co-founded BETV, stakes in the Wash. Mystics, Wizards & Capitals; Annika Sorenstam: Swede golfer, won 10 tournaments; Williams Tennis Sisters: power, athleticism, endorsements; Michelle Wie: $10 mill in endorsements from Nike and Sony; Danica Patrick: 23-yr-old w. 4th-place finish at Indy 500; Donna Orender: WNBA commish; Amy Trask: CEO of Oakland Raiders; Lesa France Kennedy: prez of NASCAR Int’l Speedway Corp.; Donna Lopiano: exec. director of Women’s Sports Foundation . . . . . . . Arms race update: revenues for U-Wisconsin athletics have increased 178% since 1995-’96 . . . . . . . University HS, a Miami “diploma mill” spotlighted in a scathing feature by the NY Times a couple weeks ago, is shutting down. No surprise there . . . . . . . A volleyball home run: American Volleyball Coaches Assn has hired Kathy DeBoer as new exec director. DeBoer - who also serves on the Clips Advisory Panel - spent 23 years in college athletics (18 at U-Kentucky) as a VB coach and administrator. Congrats Kathy. . . . . . . 27 straight: No. 25 Iowa beat Drake for the 27th straight time, 65-60, Tuesday Dec. 20. Drake has not beaten Iowa in Iowa City since 1967. . . . . . . Duke women spanked Ball State 110-24 on Dec. 19. Duke scored the first 23 points. Ball State missed its first 16 shots and its last 11, and shot a woeful 13%. . . . . . . Mount Union (Alliance, Ohio) won its eighth D3 FB title in 13 yrs. They had a 110 game regular season winning streak that ended in 1994. . . . . . . Lowest-scoring MBB D1 game since the trey: Monmouth beat host Princeton, 41-21, last night. Princeton went scoreless for a stretch of 14:54 in the 2nd half. Yawn. . . . . . Report from Canada’s Ryerson U: global investment in sponsorships have zoomed from approx. US$500 million in 1982 to an estimated US$28 billion in 2004. . . . . . . . Bravo Lakers: Grand Valley State won its third D2 FB title in the past four years with a 21-17 win over NW Missouri State. . . . . . . . . . Biggest bowl winner: Notre Dame will get a full BCS share - more than $14 million - for appearing in the Fiesta Bowl v. Ohio St. Other teams receive a fraction of their share because it is divided among other conference members. Because of Notre Dame’s independent status, they don’t have to share their share. . . . . . Clips name of the week nomination: Mario Moccia, Sr. Assoc. AD, U-Missouri. . . . . Under and overachievers: OVERACHIEVERS (none ranked in preseason, current ranking in parens)- Penn State (4) 10-1; Notre Dame (6) 8-2; UCLA (11) 9-1; West Virginia (12) 8-1; TCU (15) 10-1 … UNDERACHIEVERS (preseason ranking in parens, none in Top 25 now)- Tennessee (3) 4-6; Oklahoma (5) 6-4; Iowa (10) 7-4; Purdue (16) 5-6; Arizona State (18) 5-5 . . . . . . . . Coach of year, Mike Lopresti version (no particular order?): 1-Joe Paterno, Penn State, Too old? Nope.; 2-Charlie Weis, Notre Dame, instant restoration; 3-Pete Carroll, USC, 33 in a row; 4-Mack Brown, Texas, a dream season; 5-George O’Leary, Central Florida, from 0-11 to 8-3 and hosting the Conference USA championship game. In one year.; 6-Tommy Tuberville, Auburn, 13-0 last season, 9-2 this season. . . . . .
Clips Athlete of the Week
Tyler Emmert, QB for Carroll College (Mont.), led the Fighting Saints (14-0) to its 4th straight NAIA football championship, 27-10 over St. Francis (Ind.). He completed 20 of 36 passes for 278 yards and three TDs. Emmert was selected as NAIA Player of the Year honors for the second time in three seasons. He is 74-3 as a starting QB dating to his days at Capital High School in Helena, Mont.What say you?
If you were casting for an actor to play Coach K, who would you pick?
Tom Hanks
Al Pacino
Gene Hackman
Sean Penn
Ray Romano
Dennis Hopper
Al Pacino
Gene Hackman
Sean Penn
Ray Romano
Dennis Hopper
Who Am I?
Grew up in Milwaukee in the 60s, an avid fan of the Green Bay Packers and Milwaukee Braves. ... One of the first women to become a college AD, at UC, San Diego from 1975-99. ... First woman to become secretary-treasurer of the NCAA (1989-91) ... grad of the University of Wisconsin ... Taught at Tulane and Arizona State. ... Taught and coached at UC-San Diego, then AD in her third year.
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