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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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Sponsorship Management: A Status Report
This paper provides a contemporary view of sponsorship theory and its significance in management theory. ... posted 12-19-05We don’t do scandals . . . .
But this one we just couldn’t ignore. The University of Colorado is becoming the poster child of all that could go bad with an athletics program. The latest? $117,400 worth of questionable expenses. ... posted 12-13-05College-licensed items still growing significantly
You are what you wear. Or sit in. Or drink out of. Or eat from. ... posted 12-11-05Spending like there’s no tomorrow . . .
It’s not news, but it bears repeating: a spending analysis from USA Today confirms that the D1-A arms race continues unabated. ... posted 11-25-05Ersatz wearables intercepted at the Mexican border
The latest seizure of counterfeit apparel with pro and college logos occurred in Nogales, Arizona two weeks ago. ... posted 11-18-05Intercollegiate athletics revenue: Montana-style
From the somewhat blurred focus of the EADA camera comes a snapshot of a single-state college athletics ecosystem. ... posted 11-14-05Big schools bidding out marketing to experts
Some 80% of BCS schools have gone to outsourcing marketing agreements. ... posted 11-10-05“Big” is really big in the Big Ten
A comparison of EADA stats shows the University of Wisconsin at the top spending levels in most categories. ... posted 11-8-05Greater Presence, Higher Expectations
It cuts both ways for athletic departments: raising money is easier due to high profile presence, but they receive a lesser portion of institution funding. ... posted 10-28-05Defending Big East is full-time job for Tranghese
The Big East has taken more shots than a punch-drunk fighter at one of the old boxing matches that helped make Madison Square Garden the World’s Greatest Arena. ... posted 10-28-05Surveys: college costs up, but at slower rate
College Board surveys reveal a slower rate of increase, but poorer students are falling behind. …. posted 10-25-05College Athletes Optimistic About Financial Future, But Survey Shows Unrealistic Expectations
College student-athletes are bullish on their future but more than one-third lack the confidence to manage their finances. .... posted 10-25-05EADA financial numbers: imperfect but comprehensive
There’s no credible metric to compare expenses from one athletics program to the next, so here’s the next best thing: a look at the latest EADA numbers. .... posted 10-23-05Necessary Evil? - Upping Student Fees
As ticket prices and sponsorships have maxed out, embattled administrators have increasingly turned to student fee hikes. .... posted 10-21-05Student-Athlete insurance at a crossroads
Businesses have steadily shifted health care costs to employees, athletics programs are doing the same with student-athletes. .... posted 10-21-05Stretching the price elasticity of college costs
The annual price tag at Bates College has passed $42,000, one of 75 schools in the country over $40K. How long can this last? ... posted 10-19-05Service academies march to their own drummers
The athletics programs at Navy, Army and Air Force are facing unprecedented evolutionary challenges to maintain their competitiveness. … posted 10-12-05The Dance spins off gobs of money
The mushrooming popularity of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament has made TV sports history, and it’s still growing. .... posted 10-11-05Rutgers Rebranding Really Necessary?
New Jersey’s state university suffers from a ho-hum image across the state, and it’s worse from out of staters. What to do? Call an image consultant.Alcohol availability still a patchwork at Big Ten schools
Premium seating in most Big Ten venues comes with the privilege of quaffing adult beverages inside the stadium.AD Comps in Mountain West Conf. move up - slightly
Bidding up for new AD hires has ratcheted up compensation packages.Billion Dollar Babies: Jumbo Fundraising Campaigns
University fundraising campaigns now regularly exceed goals over a billion dollars.Ohio State: as big as college football gets
The Buckeye Nation consumes the entire state. And Ohio is a big state.NIT purchase being assimilated
A new precedent for market leaders under antitrust litigation: just buy your top competitor.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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