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White Case, One-Handed Hoopster & Shredding Rich Rodriguez - Jan 30, 2008 | 9:50:47
posted by: Josh
NCAA settles White case. The NCAA agreed to a $10 million settlement in the Jason White antitrust case. The settlement provides supplemental money above the standard athletics scholarship for those student-athletes who have competed in the Football Bowl Subdivision and 16 Division I men's basketball conferences between February 17, 2002 and the present. Click here to read the NCAA's statement. Politics and Super Bowl. Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney finished ahead of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani in yesterday's Republican Primary in Florida. Giuliani is set to withdraw from the presidential race. Does this political battle reflect what the Patriots will do to the Giants on Sunday? Bigger stadium trumps education? Rutgers received approval for spending $102 million to add 14,000 seats to its stadium. While $72 million will be raised through increased ticket sales, $30 million is going to come from private donations raised through a campaign led by New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine. The Rutgers football program has certainly stepped it up a couple of notches in the last three years, but is this not the same university that was the recipient of severe budget cuts that negatively impacted educational opportunities on campus a couple of years back? One-handed hoopster. How's this for a remarkable story? Southern Utah basketball player Dax Crum is playing hoops with just one hand. Crum, who was born with just one small finger on his right hand and lost his mother to cancer in 2004, is averaging six minutes per game for the Thunderbirds and played a career-high 16 minutes against Missouri-Kansas City two weeks ago. The 23-year-old is also married and working on his MBA. What's his wife do? She's in medical school. Does Rich Rodriguez deserve this? The Wheeling Nailers, a minor league hockey team in West Virginia, will host "Shred Rich Rodriguez" night on Saturday. Fans who bring in pictures or articles of Rodriguez will have an opportunity to feed them through a paper shredder and receive a discount. Does this promotion take things too far? Mixed priorities. If the Nebraska football team hits all of its academic milestones next season, new coach Bo Pelini has a chance to earn up to $250,000 in incentive bonuses. If coaches are going to be rewarded for the on-field performance of their teams, they should also be held accountable for academic success. While $250K is a sizable chunk of change, Pelini will earn an additional $800,000 for winning a national championship. Does this mean Nebraska has its priorities stacked inappropriately? 
CommentsI think that it's great Nebraska is rewarding Pelini for the academic performance of his team. While the student-athletes are ultimately responsible for their own classroom performance, the encouragement of a coach can go a long way toward academic success. "Does this mean Nebraska has its priorities stacked inappropriately?" I think earning a national championship at Nebraska will be more than 4 times as difficult as meeting the NCAA APR, so it appears the priorities favor academics.... It???s too bad it took an anti-trust lawsuit, and the NCAA's fear of that going to trial, to reach a settlement. If they were so pleased to reach an agreement, they could have saved many thousands of dollars by reaching agreement long ago. Why is it that coaches are rewarded for their student-athlete's academic performance when it's the academic athletic advisors who are the ones who ensure the performance! They should be rewarded and very rarely are. Post a Comment |
  
It means that two very good teams with very good coaches made it to the final game.
- Marie
   
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