Reform
Lack of fairness in BCS system invites antitrust scrutiny   Clips Guest Commentary   Our guest authors describe the BCS as “a classic ‘Animal Farm’ ”  . . . . “some animals have carved out special considerations for themselves.”   By Jason Maloni and Bruce Fryer of Levick Strategic Communications, SportsBusiness Journal, 12-14-09
 
Alabama Shows Complete Lack of Class   Clips Guest Commentary   Our guest author weighs in on the decision by the University of Alabama to shut down classes from Jan.6-8 for the BCS Title Game.   By Clay Travis, Fanhouse, 12-10-09
 
Eighth Annual SBJ Intercollegiate Athletics Forum    Clips Eyewitness Report   For the fifth time your Clips scribe has attended the SBJ IAF, and it gets better every year.  Nick Infante, Clips Editor, 12-13-09
 
5 issues for the next NCAA president   Clips Guest Commentary   Our guest author lists the pressing challenges -- from revenue disparity to more talk of a football playoff -- awaiting the successor to Myles Brand.   By Michael Smith, SportsBusiness Journal, 12-10-09
 
More Than On Field Risks For Football Players    Broken bones and concussions are not the only risk factors for football linemen. American College of Sports Medicine website, 11-30-09
 
Wetzel’s playoff plan: Money talks    Clips Guest Commentary   Our guest author proffers a reasoned, equitable method of implementing a D1-A football playoff – if there’s ever a D1-A football playoff, that is.   By Dan Wetzel, Yahoo! Sports, 12-7-09
 
November 2009
How much are Clemson/USC players worth?    Here are estimated market values for college football players, based on the NFL revenue-sharing model.   The Post and Courier (SC), 11-27-09
 
GSR is A-OK   The NCAA says that the latest federal graduation rates show that athletes in the biggest college-sports programs continue to graduate at rates higher than those of their non-athlete peers.   NCAA News, 11-18-09
 
The Buck Stops Here    The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports has released its annual study assessing diversity among D1-A campus and conference leaders.   TIDES, 11-16-09
 
Reclaiming Isiah   Clips Guest Commentary   Our guest author takes a circumspect perspective on forgiveness in the world of sports.   By Dan Wetzel, Yahoo! Sports, 11-9-09
 
After Big Cuts, Mighty Stanford Sports Longs for Sunnier Days    The Great Recession has battered the most envied program in college sports with severe losses in its once-$500-million athletics endowment.  Libby Sander, Chronicle of Higher Education, 11-8-09
 
USAT feature (Day Two): D1-A FB coach compensation   Here’s Day Two of USA Today’s superb feature on head and assistant FB coach pay. USA Today, 11-11-09
 
USAT feature: D1-A FB coach compensation   USA Today has launched a three-day feature -- with comprehensiveness and meticulousness throughout – that stratifies and analyzes head (and assistant) FB coach pay. USA Today, 11-10-09
 
3rd Annual NCAA Colloquium is Jan. 12-13    With perhaps its “most provocative lineup to date,” and focusing on the timeliest of all topics (economic issues), the colloquium will be held in conjunction with the NCAA Convention in Atlanta.   NCAA News, 11-5-09
 
Faculty Action at UC-Berkeley Warrants Emulation    Clips Guest Commentary   Members of the UC-Berkeley Faculty Senate pave a path for other Faculty Senates to follow.   By Frank G. Splitt, The Drake Group, 11-03-09
 
Improvements for College Baseball   The NCAA and conferences have done -- overall -- a nice job of promoting baseball, but in TV contracts and scheduling, both entities have not done such a great job.   Athletic Business, 10-15-09
 
October 2009
Bad Time for Sports Overspending    Facing furloughs and decimation of academic budgets, Berkeley faculty are dismayed to learn of university loans to fill multimillion-dollar deficits in athletics department -- on top of annual subsidies.  Doug Lederman, Inside Higher Ed, 10-30-09
 
Big-time college athletics: “an indefensible, unsustainable situation?”    Clips Guest Commentary    Presidents of universities with major sports programs convened at a Knight Commission meeting and confessed cowardice and consternation over the calamitous costs involved.   Bob Gilbert, 10-28-09
 
Federal Intervention Can Help Reform College Sports and Curb Profligate Spending   Clips Guest Commentary   Our guest author describes the rock and hard place that plagues college presidents in their oversight of college athletics. Few of them “have the capacity, the will, or the appetite to lead a true reform movement in college sports.” Frank G, Splitt, The Drake Group, 10-29-09
 
Hold that line? For 80 years, universities haven't   Clips Guest Commentary   Our guest author, a professor of public policy, economics and law at Duke University, comments on the dichotomy between the academic mission of universities and the commercial activities of big-time college football.   Charles Clotfelter, Raleigh News & Observer, 10-22-09
 
Here they are, the latest financials from the NCAA   Expertly and meticulously (110 pages) compiled, analyzed and deciphered by Dan Fulks, the revenues in and expenses out are troubling for all but a couple dozen of the biggest programs.   NCAA.org, 10-23-09
 
Risks for Cheerleaders Reach New Heights    The injury rates for cheerleading have escalated alarmingly.   Los Angeles Times, 10-14-09
 
Florida State document release a yawner   It has been long fought over, it is 695 pages long, it is double-spaced, it is available in pdf format only and it seems to have been much ado about not a lot.It   Fanhouse.com, 10-16-09
 
Stop Early Offers to Children   Clips Guest Commentary   Our guest author, a long-term Clips subscriber, forwards a deliberate, reasoned proposal to stop the madness of college coaches chasing child athletes.   Pat Dobel, University of Washington FAR, 10-14-09
 
Reality Sports Meet Publicity Rights    Clips Guest Commentary   Our guest author -- an attorney who specializes in patent, trademark, trade secret and copyright litigation -- dissects the demands of video game auteurs for a sports game experience that is as close to the real world, and real players, as possible.  Jeffrey Sullivan, The National Law Journal, 10-14-09
 
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