What are Your Secrets to Success? Attitude.
Ever wondered what it would be like to have the longest relationship of your life suddenly end in a break up? And add in quite the grieving process too? At first, you probably thought about death, but that’s essentially what a student-athlete goes through when they are graduating, or for some even earlier if they […]
Focus On The Whole Team: Conquer Your Resolutions
The beginning of the year is much like the beginning of a semester. And often remind me of the beginning of a sports training season. You get a chance to make upgrades. You get a chance to reinvest in areas that your team has been good in. Or you get a chance to pivot into […]
The Great Debate Over Compensation for College Athletes
The NCAA, and really all of intercollegiate athletics, are in flux. It seems that all at once, decades old questions and debates are coming to a head, and sooner rather than later, there may be a tectonic shift in the sports we’ve grown familiar with. Concussions, academic scandal, coaching salaries, Title IX and sexual assault […]
Basketball great and former ESPN commentator Len Elmore tweeted that, “Student athletes are BENEFICIARIES of a system that can be improved but nevertheless offers extraordinary benefits.” These “extraordinary benefits” have college athletes who receive a full scholarship enjoying a package deal going well into the six figures at some schools, an amount worth more than […]
What are Your Secrets to Success?
Andrew Hawkins played for the Cleveland Browns and Cincinnati Bengals over the last six years, but what you may not have known is that he got his master’s degree from Columbia while playing. Graduating in 2017, Hawkins has other plans to pursue as he retired at 31 from the NFL in July. Roughly 98% […]
New Year, Same Debate: Whether Or Not To Pay College Athletes
There is an enormous, simplistic allure to paying college athletes. Revenues are in the billions, coaches can make millions, so why shouldn’t the players get a couple of thousand a game? Like anything with a profound specious appeal (peak oil, citizen’s arrest, socialist economics), the attraction of paying college athletes quickly collapses under the unyielding forces of […]