The Supreme Court Pass on the O’Bannon Matter, and What Comes Next

On Monday of this week, the nation’s highest court declined to consider the highest profile challenge to the NCAA’s amateurism principles. In a move that surprised almost no one, the Supreme Court of the Unites States’ decision to take a pass on reviewing the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ September 2015 ruling effectively ended the […]

The NCAA’s New “Enhanced” Targeting Rule Fails Its Initial Audition

It’s not hyperbole to suggest that no issue threatens college football’s long-term viability – not conference expansion, or the oft-rumored breakaway of the Power Five, or even shifting spectator demographics –  more than that of player safety. And well it should, as society is cognizant, in a manner it wasn’t even a scant five years […]

College Athletics Next Great Money Issue: Overtime Pay and the FLSA

Over the last couple of years, the vast majority of conversations across the country concerning the increased costs of doing business in college athletic departments have focused on the angst associated with this past August’s implementation of the Cost of Attendance supplements. For Power Five athletic administrators this meant a certain, non-standardized increase in operating […]

Louisville’s Cost of Attendance Gap Is A Sign Of Potential Problems

While the start of August annually signifies the looming onset of both another academic year and college football season, a different sense of anticipation accompanied the beginning of this year’s summer swan song. After the near-unanimous passage at January’s NCAA Convention of Legislation that would supplement student-athlete scholarship amounts with additional Cost of Attendance (“COA”) […]

UVA Study Highlights Inadequacy of NCAA Concussion Policy

Back in May, the Social Science & Medicine journal published a study that documented how concussions among college athletes are suffered, treated, and reported. And while college football players were curiously omitted from the collection of athletes observed in this report, the study nevertheless pointed out that while concussion-related discussion is all the rage these […]

Dan Mullen’s Audacious Plan To Reward Deserving Incoming Student-Athletes

Save for the occasional pointed barb or rare sojourn into the unfamiliar arena of transparency, it’s not an overly controversial opinion to state that the weeks surrounding  the various conference “Media Day” events produce little in the way of hard-hitting, illuminating content. And that’s perfectly fine, as I suspect the overwhelming majority of college football […]