Tue, Jan 31, 2012
By Tony Weaver, CSBN Sports Business Columnist
The role of the college president in athletics has become much more prominent in recent years. Presidents’ names appear in sports sections more often than ever before, especially in the last year with presidents taking on a leadership role in conference realignment. The question is, is this a good thing? At one time some thought it was the best option.
Sat, Jan 28, 2012
By Winthrop Intelligence
Efficient recruiting spending relative to team performance continues to captivate our imagination, so we examined seven years of NCAA hockey data and NHL drafts spanning 700+ college players (including 350 top prospects) to explore the relationship between NCAA champions in hockey and top prospects.
Tue, Jan 17, 2012
By Joshua D. Winneker, Esq., CSBN Sports Law Columnist
After yet another contentious collective bargaining process, the NBA season is finally underway. In watching the games this year, Brandon Jennings (a stand-out guard on the Milwaukee Bucks) and his journey to the NBA comes to mind and makes me wonder if the NBA eligibility rules and the recent collective bargaining process will make overseas professional basketball a more attractive option than college for high school players going forward.
Mon, Jan 16, 2012
Over the last twenty years there has been a concerted effort by the haves in college sports to redirect as much revenue as possible to themselves. This effort was best characterized by Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany in his use of the word “equity” to rationalize why he believed that the schools and conferences that had invested the most in college sports should reap a greater share of the revenue that flowed from that investment. With the massive growth in media rights fees over the years, this philosophical approach has produced significant disparity between the resources available to the equity conferences and all other conferences.
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