Focus on the Whole Team: New Year, New Goals
With most athletic programs, the offseason gives the administration, coaches, and athletes an opportunity to look over the past year. What went right? What went wrong? In what areas can we get better? What are the goals moving forward? New Year’s resolutions bring similar questions. With most people deciding on a resolution, here are a […]
Ed. Note: In 2018, CollegeAD will welcome a weekly series from Jake Hirshman, Co-author of “20 Secrets to Success for NCAA Student-Athletes Who Won’t Go Pro.” Before his articles publish, our very own Ronnie Burton Jr. set out to introduce Jake and his work to better frame the series. In today’s climate, athletic administrators […]
All I Want for Christmas is my Graduate Degree
Tarheel #13 Cameron Johnson plays the game very well… Not just for being a member of the defending national champion UNC hoops squad, but for being well on his way to earning a graduate degree while still on scholarship. Like Dallas Cowboy quarterback Dac Prescott, who earned his graduate and undergraduate degree while on a football scholarship at […]
The Inaugural Early Signing Period Introduced a Host of New Issues
The inaugural early signing period for football recruiting comes to a close today, and I can say with confidence that, if it stays the way it is, it will change the game. We already knew that the signing period falling during early bowl season would be an interesting twist, but coaches don’t seem to be […]
All I want for Christmas is My Undergraduate Degree
At the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics event in October in Washington, D.C., NCAA President Mark Emmert spoke of research finding that about three-quarters of D1 basketball players, half of D2, and one-quarter of D3 all expected to play professionally. In reality, it is less than one percent who will make it to the National […]
How Do Athletic Departments Allow Sports and Academics to Mix at America’s Top Schools?
The status of athletics at the university level today is fraught with complex issues. Questions of player payment, “paper classes” that subvert the “student” moniker, and diversity involving Title IX compliance all wrack the brains of administrators, athletic and academic alike. For some schools, the very nature of their academic mission seems to stand contrary […]