Is The ESPN Reign As King Of College Sports Coming To An End?

Games on ESPN have long been a valued recruiting tool for coaches. Most coaches equate high visibility to games shown on ESPN’s family of networks rather than other mediums such as the mainstream networks (ABC, CBS and NBC), Fox Sports, the Pac-12 Network or Big Ten Network, etc. The enhanced exposure on ESPN is why […]

More Schools Embrace Alcohol Sales To Boost Attendance And Revenue

This is certainly not your dad’s NCAA, which is no longer fearful of guilt by association, especially with revenue on the mind. The PAC-12 men’s basketball tournament was staged since 2012 inside of a Las Vegas casino with bars, slot machines and craps tables a few feet away from the arena’s entrance. Alcohol was sold […]

Now That Text Messages Are Unlimited, The NCAA Should Allow Recruits To Sign Early

The recent controversial Twitter rant about loyalty and accountability by Texas A&M assistant coach Aaron Moorehead after a high-profile high school quarterback recruit de-committed is enough to make every administrator and coach in the country reevaluate how a program presents itself to recruits through electronic communication. It raises an interesting question now that the NCAA has […]

Does College Football Need A Commissioner?

The recent ban on satellite camps, only for the NCAA to reverse direction, has prompted discussion that college football needs a commissioner as a unifying force bringing everything together. The same charade can’t happen again. Some of college football’s biggest names, including Nick Saban and David Shaw, are proponents of a person having the power […]

Is There A Cultural Problem In Women’s Basketball?

In the last month we have learned of at least three separate incidents of women’s basketball players filing complaints or lawsuits against their former coach because of harassment or being treated unfairly. Are these incidents the exception when it comes to coaching, especially with women’s basketball, or are they the norm? Is it only a […]

It’s Time For Draft Eligibility Rules That Make Sense For The Player, NCAA, And NBA

Will we soon learn about the Thon Maker Rule from the NCAA as the debate over the NBA draft eligibility rules rages on? Maker used a loophole in the NCAA’s eligibility rule by skipping a year of college to attend a prep school in Canada awaiting his chance to enter the NBA draft. The draft-eligible […]