Guest Commentaries
 RECRUITING    The Commitment Project: studying recruits, college football edition   Recruits seek the best situation as coaches seek the best class. When those goals align, a commitment happens. When a better deal comes along, sometimes a decommitment happens.   SI.com, 1-20-12
 
 ROUNDBALL    A How-To Guide for Moving the Basketball Season   The push for one-semester sports is yielding some creative ideas.   ncaa.org, 2-1-12
 
 NCAA    News not fit to print   An NCAA response to a New York Times reporter.   ncaa.org, 2-3-12
 
 FRONT PORCH    College Sports as Product Differentiation   Clips Guest Commentary   Is there is no truth to the dual common notions about big-time college athletics?... that their behemoth existence is detrimental to the university's mission of education and scholarship; and that their prominence in university life is new.   By Andrei S. Markovits, Huffington Post, 1-30-12
 
 ROUNDBALL    College hoops ready to take center stage   Forde’s Forty floats into a frenetic February.   Yahoo! Sports, 1-31-12
 
January 2012
 MEDIA    Uncivil: How Paul Finebaum Keeps The SEC’s Dixie Aroused   Clips Guest Commentary   With deft and crafty steerage, Finebaum and his merry pranksters build a raucous, entertaining and/or irreverent radio show every day.   Jack Dickey, Deadspin, 1-9-12
 
 REFORM    Collegiate Athletics Reform: Up to the courts?   Clips Guest Commentary   Our guest author points out that there has been no action by the Legislative and Executive branches of the federal government, leaving it up to the courts to resolve reform related issues.    Frank G. Splitt, 01-27-12
 
 JoePa    Penn State bids farewell to Joe Paterno   Clips Eyewitness Report   Our Clips intern was all eyes and ears for the gloomy—and joyous—farewell.   Todd Lindenmuth, Clips Assistant Editor, 1-26-12
 
 JoePa    Joe Paterno and State College   Clips Guest Commentary   He was of Penn State. But of State College.   Mike Poorman, StateCollege.com, 1-27-12
 
 COACHES    Schiano's decision to leave Rutgers latest example of what's wrong with college football   In a word, what’s wrong is “vultures.”   Sporting News, 1-26-12
 
 D3    An antidote for cynicism about college sports   Clips Guest Commentary   The antidote for the cynicism toward college athletics?   Division III, with more than 170,000 student-athletes at 444 schools.   James W. Schmotter, President of Western Connecticut State University, Danbury News Times, 1-25-12
 
 JoePa    Joe Paterno and The Interview: One Coach, 22 Years, 581 Questions   This is Mike Poorman’s second in a series of columns chronicling the impact of Joe Paterno at Penn State.   StateCollege.com, 1-25-12
 
 JoePa    The Paterno Class    This week, Mike Poorman is writing a series of columns chronicling the impact of Joe Paterno at Penn State. This is the third installment, tomorrow’s will be “Joe Paterno & State College”  StateCollege.com, 1-26-12
 
 ROUNDBALL    It’s the Year of the Dragon in college hoops   Forde Minutes: The buttoned-down mind of college basketball (and hobbyist gastronome) is at it again.   Yahoo! Sports 1-24-12
 
 REFORM    Euclidean Geometry and the NCAA's Collegiate Model   Clips Guest Commentary   Our guest author references axioms, postulates, Congress’ intellectual audacity and his high school geometry teacher in exploring reform agendas to tame the “athletics-as-entertainment juggernaut.”   Richard Southall, Huffington Post, 1-18-12
 
 ROUNDBALL    Too many coaches behaving badly   Forde Minutes recaps forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college basketball this week.   Yahoo! Sports, 1-17-12
 
 CONVENTION    What's the hurry, NCAA? Nothing's broken   Last week's NCAA Convention adventures have been described as “Plenty of questions. Few well-defined answers. Prevailing chaos.”    Dwight Collins, The Gainesville Sun, 1-18-12
 
 RACIAL/GENDER HIRING    College athletics shows diversity progress, room for growth   Two 2011 reports highlight some of the positive changes regarding hiring practices in college sports, as well as some of the areas where college athletics is terribly behind the rest of sports regarding issues of diversity and inclusion.   SportsBusiness Journal, 1-9-12
 
 COACHES    With three BCS titles, Nick Saban stands alone among coaching peers   Clips Guest Commentary   Our guest author posits that Saban’s third BCS title in seven years was his most important title and easily the most satisfying.   Paul Finebaum, SI.com, 1-12-12
 
 INDY    Clips Eyewitness Report: 106th NCAA Convention   Indianapolis was the place to be last week.  There were multitudinous presentations, colloquiums, sessions, panels and, of course, lobby surfing.   Nick Infante, Clips Editor, 1-14-12
 
 
 REFORM    Collegiate Athletics Reform: A Call for Federal Intervention   Clips Guest Commentary   Our guest author believes that intervention by the federal government is the only way to bring about what he sees as desperately needed reform of big-time football and men's basketball.  Frank G. Splitt, 1-10-12
 
 FB    Is there an end in sight for the SEC's dominance?   Clips Guest Commentary   Our guest author prognosticates a strong SEC for quite a while to come.   Matt Hayes Sporting News, 1-8-12
 
 ENTITLEMENT    Reader Rants about the “Age of Entitlement”   Clips Guest Commentary   Our guest author discusses—vigorously—the different ends of the spectrum of expectations. Some want it all now, and others understand they have to pay their dues first.   Anonymous Clips Reader, 1-5-12
 
 LEADERSHIP    The NCAA's New Hammer   Scandals prompt calls for change, but NCAA President Mark Emmert faces pushback.  Brad Wolverton, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 1-9-12
 
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