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EVIDENCE OF A KINDER, GENTLER NCAA … “I don’t think anyone would be interested in us saying that two friends can’t give each other a gift. It would be somewhat harsh to dictate what two friends could give each other.” … NCAA spokesman Kent Barrett, commenting on what many see as a hodgepodge of enforcement regarding “friends” with “pre-existing relationships.” … Lexington Herald-Leader, 2-5-06Clips 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
Knight Commission’s work, Richt’s raise: What gives? ... Columnist Paul Woody speculates that Georgia football coach Mark Richt’s 8-year, $16 million contract was a defensive move to ward off overtures from Florida State.Clips Editorial
Hooray for State U ... although partisanship has its limits, devotion to one’s team is about as loyal as loyal can be. ... a Clips editorial ... posted 1-30-06Monthly Archives
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Group decries “bean-counting exercise”
Project 21, a black leadership network, says the focus of “Racial and Gender Report Card” studies should be on black grad rates, not the number of blacks in leadership positions. ... posted 2-7-06Knight Commission: conference and poll
Monday Jan. 30 was a busy day for the Knight Commish: a webcast summit conference and the release of a public opinion poll. ... posted 1-31-06Study: Sport Management Field Experiences as Experiential Learning
Internships have long been recognized as an effective means of learning. SUNY-Brockport Professors Stier and Schneider explore the positives and negatives in a new study. ... posted 1-30-06Half full? Half empty?
It’s all in how one looks at things. For student-athlete academics, should it be DOE numbers or GSR numbers? Or both? ... posted 1-23-06Faculty Salaries Report by DOE
In full, it’s called the “Employees in Postsecondary Institutions, Fall 2004, and Salaries of Full-Time Instructional Faculty, 2004-05.” Clips has captured the essence for you. ... posted 1-13-06Is there something wrong with going through a loophole?
In what could be a prelude to the fallout to come in more stringent academic standards, the story about a Miami school accused of putting athletes on a “dumb-jock track” won’t go away. ... posted 1-10-06Study: Americans Support Reforms in College Athletics
A study conducted for the Knight Commission says Americans prefer that an athlete’s college experience should be about academics, not sports. ... posted 1-7-06“List price,” new term at image-conscious schools?
Price is a bigger factor than ever for private liberal arts schools, and they’re handing out 425% more merit aid than a decade ago. ... posted 1-2-06NCAA rejiggers grad rate computations
Transfer students will no longer be assigned to the twilight zone for grad rates. The new rates take a steep hike. ... posted 12-21-05Study: “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.ClipsBlips
Great week for Miami (Ohio): The RedHawks hoopsters won three staright, the hockey team climbed to #1 and alum Ben Roethlisberger had a Super week. . . . . . From the media capital of the world this weekend was intro’d “Play” mag by the NY Times. “Play” will be a 4x/yr supplement to the Sunday Times. The debut issue was very impressive: 124 pgs, lengthy articles by top writers, marquee advertisers, plus a massive 7000-word piece about Coach K which we shall soon summarize succinctly in Clips. . . . . . In the time it took the Beach Boys to sing “Barbara Ann,” Christian Smith set a new NCAA record in the 1000-meter run, w. a 2:19.57 in Lincoln, Neb., to break a collegiate record set in 1986 by Doug Consiglio of the University of Arkansas. . . . . . Penn State’s JoPa selected the Walter Camp Coach of the Year, voted on by 119 D1-A coaches and SIDs. Paterno also won the award in 1972 & 1994. . . . . . Happy 74th Coach Chaney, Jan. 21: UMass 60, Temple 34. A teams is unlikely to win when it scores 40 fewer points than its coach’s age. . . . . Eastern College Athletic Conf. commish (since 1998) Phil Buttafuoco has resigned to pursue new opportunities. The ECAC is the nation’s largest athletic conference w. 323 D1,2 & 3 schools, sponsors 100 championships in 37 sports and assigns more than 5100 officials in 14 sports. . . . . . Pickens 165, Lewis 101: Peter Lewis, a Princeton alumnus, will contribute $101-million to expand the school’s creative and performing-arts programs. The gift is the largest in Princeton’s history, beating the previous record by a single dollar. . . . . . Sixth NAIA Best Soccer Coach Award for Lindsey Wilson College men’s soccer coach Ray Wells. Way to go Coach. . . . . . The Winthrop Eagles are flying: Men’s basketball team has a 22-game home win streak (4th in nation), attendance up 60% v. LY, and 22-game Big South Conf. win streak (the longest conference run in the land). Winthrop’s had 5 NCAA tourny appearances in 7 yrs since coach Gregg Marshall came to Rock Hill. . . . . . D1-A FB coach changes: only nine of the 119 D1-A schools have new coaches. Unless there are more changes, that will be a record-low of 7.6% since tracking began in 1947. . . . . . . Penn became the 8th school in D1 men’s basketball history to win 1600 games. Penn has won a total of 23 Ivy championships in its history. . . . . . . Ole Miss soph goalie Ann Shelton had the best goals-against avg in D1 soccer w. 0.268. Shelton had 771 consecutive shutout minutes, and did not allow a goal in 14 straight contests. . . . . . Biggest athletics donation ever: Boone Pickens is donating $165 million to the Oklahoma St athletics dept. Ralph Engelstad gave No. Dakota $100 million in ‘98. Nike Chairman Phil Knight gave Oregon over $50 million in the 80s. . . . . . AFCA Coach of the Year winners: D1-A: Joe Paterno (Penn State); D1-AA: Jerry Moore (Appalachian State); D2: Chuck Martin (Grand Valley State); D3: Bob Berezowitz (Wisc Whitewater). . . . . . . . This week’s nomination for coolest coll. athletics name: Yngve Ramstad, U-Rhode Island Faculty Athletic Rep. . . . . . Florida Atlantic U is progressing w. plans for a $120 million, 40,000 seat domed stadium on its Boca Raton campus. . . . . . . 1st signage at UNC’s Smith Center: Wachovia Bank will have virtually the first signs hung since the arena’s 1986 opening. Cost: $9.1 mill over 8 yrs. . . . . . . NAIA Football Coach of the Year: Mike Van Diest of Carroll College (Helena MT), which won an unprecedented 4th straight NAIA nat’l championship. Van Diest is 78-16 at Carroll over seven seasons. . . . . . . New single-season D1 NCAA record: Indiana’s Cyndi Valentin made her 61st straight free throw on Jan. 12. She’s 78-of-82 (95.1%) for the season. Overall D1 record (over two seasons) is 66 by Ginny Doyle of Richmond. . . . . . . . . . . Best TV rating ever: Texas-USC Rose Bowl w. a 21.7 Nielsen rating (35.6 million viewers), best for a national championship game. The Rose Bowl had not had a rating as big since the ‘86 UCLA-Iowa game, which had a 22.7. Last year, the Texas-Michigan game was a 12.4. . . . . . Length of bowl games: Orange (3 OT)- 4:49; Fiesta- 3:45, Sugar- 3:57, Rose- 4:00. Rose Bowl by qtr: 1st- 41:05; 2nd- 58:56; Halftime- 23:01; 3rd- 41:12; 4th- 68:41. The final 6:42 of the game lasted just over 30 minutes. The last 57 seconds needed nearly 13 minutes to complete. . . . . . . Bowl booty: Some of the gifts bestowed on bowl players (per player NCAA limit was increased by $150 to $500 this yr.): MasterCard Alamo Bowl (Xbox 360), Rose Bowl (Sony PlayStation), Nokia Sugar Bowl (customized Trek mtn bikes), Holiday Bowl (iPods), Champs Sports Bowl (Sony Camcorders), Music City Bowl (portable DVD players), Las Vegas Bowl (tkts to Blue Man Group), Hawaii Bowl (Oakley sunglasses). . . . . . Best bowl records: John Robinson, USC / UNLV (8-1); Frank Kush, Arizona St. (6-1); Gene Stallings, Texas A&M / Alabama (6-1); Warren Woodson, Hardin-Simmons / NM St. (6-1); Pat Dye, E. Carolina / Auburn (7-2-1); Dick Crum, Miami (OH) / No. Carolina (6-2); Paul Pasqualoni, Syracuse (6-2); Bud Wilkinson, Okla. (6-2) and Barry Alvarez, Wisconsin (7-3). . . . . . . Wisconsin contract figures announced: Barry Alvarez (now solo AD after dual role as AD / FB coach) to be paid $600,000 ($500,000 fr. UW and $100,000 fr. private funds). New FB coach Bret Bielema’s contract is $750,000 ($350,000 fr. UW). . . . . .
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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