Big 12 Media Days Renews Realignment Discussion

Outside of a few excellent sound bites, this week’s official Big 12 Media Days event heralding the onset of the college football season provided little in the way of concrete information regarding the conference’s future expansion plans. Naturally, given the disappointing conclusion to last season’s inaugural College Football Playoff (purely from the Big 12’s perspective, […]

Why The Austin Nichols Saga At Memphis May Signal An Irrevocable Change To Transfer Rules

Over the course of the past two weeks, an increasingly heated transfer-related battle has played out along the west Tennessee banks of the Mississippi River, as the University of Memphis and its former-standout basketball player, Austin Nichols, have gone head-to-head over Nichols’ immediate options after his decision to leave the university and finish his playing […]

Vanderbilt AD Williams Cautions Entertaining Any Future NCAA Divisional Split

Back in April, I wrote a piece which discussed Notre Dame Athletic Director Jack Swarbrick’s candid vision for the future of college athletics. At the time, Swarbrick heavily foreshadowed seismic changes in the college sports landscape, suggesting that the cultural differences inherent amongst current NCAA members will ultimately prove to be so profound that they […]

The Case Against George O’Leary As UCF AD, Interim Or Otherwise

Last week, a somewhat surprising college athletics succession story appeared on sports tickers everywhere, accompanied by relatively little national fanfare (at least relative to what we feel it merited). The University of Central Florida, without an athletic director since former incumbent Todd Stansbury opted for a future in Corvallis instead of Orlando, announced on Tuesday […]

My Interview with New UAB Athletic Director Mark Ingram

It’s not hyperbole to say that perhaps no athletic director in the country has had a more eventful first few weeks on the job than Mark Ingram, UAB’s current Athletic Director.  Hired to be the new head of the Blazers’ athletic department on May 2nd of this year, Ingram had been on the job less […]

Addressing The One And Done Issue In College Basketball

In a week that saw significant, and almost universally lauded, changes to some of the major rules governing men’s basketball, the most important harbinger of change regarding the future of the NCAA came from Rosemont, Illinois. Just two days ago, Jim Phillips, the Northwestern AD and inaugural chair of the newly-minted NCAA Division I Council, […]