Athletic Departments Must Start Planning for New FLSA Pay Mandates
With the additions of cost-of-attendance payments and unlimited food provisions for student athletes, the expenses of running an athletic department seemingly grow by the month, and it appears financial challenges aren’t going anywhere. The potential ripple effects from a 2014 directive from President Obama regarding changes to the Fair Labor Standards Act will have many […]
Dannen and Swann Illustrate Different Approaches Needed for New ADs
The growing presence of athletics in university environments means schools are constantly clamoring for leadership, and, as a result, the employment carousel in athletic departments spins quickly. College AD posts dozens of job postings, hirings, and opportunities, and it rarely seems a week goes by without a new athletic director being announced at some university. […]
Beach Volleyball Offers Upside to Athletic Departments
According to psychology-textbook/bar-argument-settling-website Wikipedia, frequency illusion is “the illusion in which a word, a name, or other thing that has recently come to one’s attention suddenly seems to appear with improbable frequency shortly afterwards.” Writing about trends and news for college athletic department consumption, noticing when sports or schools are registering on my personal “frequency-illusion-o-meter” […]
The University of Idaho FCS Move Should Be Lauded and Considered
This past week, Chuck Staben, president of the University of Idaho, wrote an explanation for why the Vandals are moving down one click from the NCAA’s highest DI football collective, the Football Bowl Subdivision. The Vandals, who are members of the Sun Belt Conference through 2017, will begin membership in 2018 in the Big Sky […]
Texas A&M Climbs Revenue List on Back of Massive Contributions
This past week saw the arrival of a new leader on USA Today’s list of college athletic budget rankings. Texas A&M, which surpassed in-state rival Texas for greatest total NCAA revenue for the 2014-2015 year with $192,608,876, is a surprise atop the leaderboard due to the school’s staggering increase in received contributions. Ballooning nearly threefold […]
Is Physical Activity as Punishment Acceptable in College Athletics?
This past week, UC Berkeley settled with the family of Ted Agu over the football player’s death in 2014, a case in which negligence by Cal officials was a “substantial factor.” Agu collapsed during a strenuous off-season workout, perhaps due to his carrying sickle cell trait, of which Cal officials were aware and experts believe […]