Understanding NCAA Compliance with JMU’s Stephen LaPorta

What is NCAA compliance and what does it mean to work in an NCAA compliance department? CollegeAD’s Johnathan Yates had the opportunity to get an inside look at the often misunderstood world of intercollegiate compliance. James Madison Assistant A.D. for Compliance Stephen LaPorta who has served in his current role of leading the Dukes compliance department since […]

Career-Defining Opportunities Will Be Available At TopConnect

As a young up-and-coming assistant coach, there are few career-defining opportunities more beneficial than being exposed to athletic directors and senior staff in an intimate group setting. This is something Virginia Tech’s Buzz Williams knows firsthand. This exact opportunity was made available to Williams as a young assistant coach at Texas A&M at an event […]

Focus On The Whole Team: It’s A Laughing Matter

For an athletic department, fan experience is an important element to every game. So much so that departments are spending millions on video boards, audio systems, enhanced Wi-Fi capabilities, and much more. A fan experience initiative is almost limitless when fun, enjoyment, and laughter is the key driver. Let’s be honest…we all need a little […]

Nutrition Risk Management: Is Your Department Prepared?

Athletic departments invest time and resources creating policies and procedures consistent with their mission statement and NCAA rules and regulations. Team physicians and certified athletic trainers create policies for injury management, concussion and return to play criteria among others. In today’s multidimensional athletic models it’s not only logical but now necessary to have nutrition-related policies, […]

Q&A With Ben Broussard: Transitioning To A New Role and Institution

Change in any aspect of life is often necessary to grow both professionally and privately. The same holds true in college athletics with that change happening frequently. Often times it involves uprooting your family and moving to a new institution in a completely different part of that country. Ben Broussard, Colorado’s new Assistant Vice Chancellor/Associate […]

New Transfer Legislation and What It Means For NCAA Compliance

The ability for a student-athlete to transfer and the rules and regulations the effect that action has been a hot topic in college athletics for a considerable time. For the first time in many years, there will be a major change to the transfer legislation which will take effect this upcoming October. The NCAA will […]