Mon, May 21, 2012
CAA bylaws prohibit departing teams from being eligible for the conference title. Athletic Director Wood Selig calls that rule punitive. While other conferences may not curb exiting athletic programs the way the CAA currently does, the rule has been in effect for 12 years and was voted on by all the schools including ODU.
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Fri, May 18, 2012
Commissioner Jim Delany announced Wednesday that the league members will launch a research initiative about how head injuries affect athletes in all sports, ESPN.com reported.
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Fri, May 18, 2012
Old Dominion University announced Thursday that it would leave the Colonial Athletic Association and join Conference USA effective July 1, 2013. The move is seen as a chance to boost the school's football team, which was restarted just three years ago.
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Fri, May 18, 2012
An NCAA special committee, led by Clemson President James F. Barker, is attempting to streamline rules enforcement to provide "stronger, more predictable penalties" and greater accountability for university officials, from presidents to athletic directors to head coaches.
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Thu, May 17, 2012
TCU announced that it has sold out its full allotment of 30,000 season tickets for 2012, when the Horned Frogs begin Big 12 play in newly renovated, 45,000-seat Amon G. Carter Stadium. Along with those season tickets, there will be about 5,000 tickets set aside for students each game and another 4,000 for each opponent.
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Thu, May 17, 2012
It is a measure of the insanity that runs rampant in college athletics that a decision by Boise State could have a major impact on Virginia Commonwealth University and Old Dominion University, the Richmond Times Dispatch noted.
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Wed, May 16, 2012
The Big West has approached Boise State about the school's potential interest in moving its sports programs (other than football) into the conference. San Diego State is a member of the conference for all sports other than football.
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Tue, May 15, 2012
ODU AD Wood Selig briefed the institution's board of trustees on the conference options available to them. The school is actively considering moving to Conference USA in order to find a home for its football program, which has FBS level ambitions.
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Tue, May 15, 2012
VCU is leaving the Colonial Athletic Association and along with Butler will be joining the Atlantic 10 Conference in 2013, CBS Sports reported. The addition of VCU and Butler offset the losses of Temple to the Big East and Charlotte to Conference USA.
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Mon, May 14, 2012
George Mason is staying in the Colonial Athletic Association. George Mason AD Tom O'Connor said the school's status as a founding member of the CAA, the league's geographic and competitive stability and an "exciting" future were factors in the decision.
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Sat, May 12, 2012
The University of Pittsburgh filed a complaint in the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County on Friday claiming the Big East has waived its right to enforce a 27-month withdrawal notice and the Panthers should be allowed move to the ACC without further penalty by the 2013-14 conference year, the AP reported.
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Sat, May 12, 2012
The Big Ten led the nation in men’s basketball attendance for the 36th consecutive season according to figures recently released by the NCAA.
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Sat, May 12, 2012
When it comes time for the BCS's committee of university presidents to render a decision on this playoff proposal, the two oldest and most intertwined major conferences of all, the Big Ten and the Pac-12, ought to do something unexpected.
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Tue, May 22, 2012
Andy Geiger, the former athletic director at Ohio State University, will be paid $215,000 a year to take over on a limited-term basis the job of athletic director at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Geiger also will receive a car, membership at the Milwaukee Athletic Club, and housing for the duration of the contract.
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Tue, May 22, 2012
Utah State will likely have the smallest athletic budget in the Mountain West Conference when it joins the league next year. According to USA Today’s latest college athletic budget estimates, the Aggies are dwarfed by conference leaders UNLV ($59 million) and New Mexico ($37 million).
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Mon, May 21, 2012
The George Washington University Department of Athletics and Recreation announced that it has reached an agreement with IMG College, a division of IMG Worldwide, to market and sell corporate sponsorships on its behalf.
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Mon, May 21, 2012
With only one national championship in the any sport in the last six years, the Longhorns are hardly producing competitively given their budget and facility riches.
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Mon, May 21, 2012
Penn State has said football sales are lagging behind the 2011 pace. One ticket office source said fallout from the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal and the firing of longtime coach Joe Paterno have affected renewal rates.
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Sat, May 19, 2012
The Big 12 and the Southeastern conferences have announced a deal that will pit their football regular-season champions against each other in a New Year's Day bowl game, the Associated Press reported.
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Thu, May 17, 2012
USA Today reported that Mike Krzyzewski's compensation for the 2010 calendar year was $7.2 million.
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Wed, May 16, 2012
Even with increases in revenue from media rights deals, ticket sales and corporate sponsorships, more than 90 percent of 227 athletics programs at Division I public schools depended on student fees, institutional or state support during the 2010-11 school year.
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Mon, May 14, 2012
Details of revenues and expenses at NCAA D-I public schools, 2006-2011.
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Mon, May 14, 2012
The Southern Mississippi athletic department's debt nearly doubled between the start of the 2010-11 fiscal year and fall 2011. An audit acquired through a public records request shows that the department owed $439,255 in fall 2010 and $790,398 last fall.
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Mon, May 14, 2012
Virginia Commonwealth University President Michael Rao announced that a search firm, Carr Sports Consulting LLC, has been hired to identify and evaluate candidates to become the school's next athletic director.
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Tue, May 22, 2012
The wife of fired Syracuse University assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine filed a libel lawsuit against ESPN, saying the network ruined her life by broadcasting salacious reports that she knew her husband abused boys and that she had sex with one of the boys.
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Tue, May 22, 2012
CBS Sports has acquired the rights to broadcast men's college basketball games from the ACC, Big 12 and Pac-12 conferences through an agreement with ESPN.
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Tue, May 22, 2012
Pam Ward, a trailblazing announcer who began calling national TV football in 2000, will no longer call ESPN college football. She will continue in her announcing role with ESPN.
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Mon, May 21, 2012
The Southeastern Conference's 12 current schools each stand to add about $8 million a year in revenue under soon-to-be-renegotiated television agreements, but they will be well short of what Pacific-12 Conference schools might get from the combination of their recent TV deals and new conference-owned networks, according to an estimate prepared for USA TODAY Sports by a college sports rights-valuation firm.
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Sat, May 12, 2012
"Tobacco Road is smiling as their financial position changed for the better on Thursday.
"But their deal still pales in comparison to the Pac-12′s new setup, and likely sets the stage for other conferences such as the SEC and Big 12 to financially surpass them in the near future," writes Patrick Rishe in Forbes.
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Fri, May 18, 2012
The Charlotte 49ers football field house is to be named after a long-time supporter of the college's athletic program.
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Wed, May 16, 2012
In the next five years the Wolf Pack athletic department hopes to complete a Mackay Stadium seat renovation and build two separate practice facilities. Those three projects, along with the construction of a new tennis facility, would come with a price tag of $25-$30 million with the money to be raised from private sources.
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Mon, May 21, 2012
The Gophers are facing a significant problem with unsold football and basketball tickets, so for the first time they have turned to an outside source for help -- Aspire Sports Marketing Group of Atlanta. "We have inventory to move," Associate AD Jason LaFrenz said. "We needed to compete more aggressively for the ticket sales dollar."
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Sat, May 19, 2012
The primary logo features the Wildcat head with a new color scheme, featuring a darker purple as well as gray and white. Other secondary marks include the Cathead with paws and the paw alone, the Salt Lake Tribune reported.
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by Dave O'Brien, CSBN Editor
Fri, Apr 20, 2012
In 2008, an unfortunate incident took place during the football game between the University of Houston and Marshall University. A wide receiver for the University of Houston's football team, Patrick Edwards, suffered a compound leg fracture in a disturbing manner during the Cougars' 37-23 loss at Marshall. Edwards filed suit against Marshall University, Conference USA, and a referee involved in the game. Recently the lawsuit was settled with the terms being kept confidential.
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