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Divisions II and III engagement on testing for sickle-cell trait
A recent blog post about testing for sickle-cell trait arrived at a good conclusion, although it may have left a misimpression about how Divisions II and III have addressed the issue to date. Writing...
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Pitfalls of pay-for-play
Is Jay Paterno the sole voice of reason still talking? Paterno, a Penn State assistant football coach and the son of coaching icon Joe Paterno, burst on to the commentary scene a month ago with an...
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Level playing fields
The term “level playing field” has been bandied about lately. Curiously, the expression itself is rather unlevel. Southern Mississippi football coach Larry Fedora trotted out the words in Sunday’s...
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Criticism doesn’t add up
Way back when, we were all taught that two negatives make a positive. Let’s test the theory with Frank Deford and Jay Bilas. In Tuesday’s weekly commentary on National Public Radio, Deford nestled in...
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Power to the purpose
Robert L. King’s recent piece in Inside Higher Ed featured some shots at the NCAA, but it is the sort of criticism that offers an opportunity for introspection. King is the president of the Kentucky...
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In advance of the Retreat
Some thoughts on the Division I Presidential Retreat, which begins today in Indianapolis: Divisions I and II have developed excellent quantitative measures of graduation outcomes, but the qualitative...
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Open and closed minds
Media reaction to last week’s Division I Presidential Retreat was generally favorable, especially if you grade on a curve to allow for the sportswriter Grinch factor. Dennis Dodds of CBSSports.com was...
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Reason amid the mess
A new round of Division I conference realignment conjecture has moved everybody to Defcon 2, and the allegations against the Miami (Florida) football program are troubling, to say the least. The...
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A billion here, a billion there
Note to The Chronicle of Higher Education: If you’re going to go with a sensational headline, please get it right. In a Dec. 11 story, the nation’s leading chronicler of higher education assembled...
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News not fit to print
The NCAA should not be immune to criticism. Any organization this big and complicated is going to need frequent corrective action. But while the NCAA is not always right, neither is it always wrong,...
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