$2,000 Stipend: Is the NCAA on the Verge of Allowing Payments to Players?

rtmsf — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 21:09:32 +0000

Perhaps the winds of change are in the air after all. Not a month after Taylor Branch’s opus in The Atlantic excoriated the NCAA for its stubborn adhesion to the twin tenets of amateurism and the “student-athlete,” and not five months after Big Ten commissioner Jim Delaney floated an idea to provide a “full cost of attendance” stipend to its players, the NCAA’s president, Mark Emmert, appears to be on board. Emmert told the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics Monday that he feels the time is ripe for addressing such an inequity for the first time in a couple of generations. [...]

Morning Five: 08.24.10 Edition

rtmsf — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:33:36 +0000

College athletic departments are not immune to the economic downturn either, as the NCAA reported that only fourteen of the 120 FCS (I-AA) schools turned a profit in the 2008-09 fiscal year. Specific names were not released, but some of the usual suspects were confirmed by Transylvania University accounting professor Dan Fulks, who performed the research — Texas, Ohio State, Alabama, Florida and Tennessee. Slightly more than half of the I-AA schools made money in both football and basketball, but the range between the two was quite a bit larger at the big football powerhouses. It goes to show [...]

financial analysis – Rush The Court

$2,000 Stipend: Is the NCAA on the Verge of Allowing Payments to Players?

Morning Five: 08.24.10 Edition