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Xavier Rathan-Mayes Receives Partial Initial Eligibility Waiver 27 Aug 2013 | 12:54 am
Xavier Rathan-Mayes, a key incoming basketball recruit for Florida State, will not suit up for the team in games or practice this year after not being cleared by the NCAA Eligibility Center. Rathan-Ma...
Iowa State Waiting on Resolution to Text Messaging Case 26 Aug 2013 | 08:26 pm
Long NCAA investigations are nothing new. But at this point, text messaging and phone call violations are more or less an exact science. The penalties are clear, the process is understood, and most ti...
DII West Texas A&M Coach Fired Over Unethical Conduct Violation 23 Aug 2013 | 06:53 pm
Division II West Texas A&M, home to the largest collection of artificial fields in North America has fired their all-time winningest football coach, Don Carthel on the eve of the season: WT learned o...
FSU’s Glauser To Sue NCAA for Final Season of Eligibility 23 Aug 2013 | 06:43 pm
Daniel Glauser, a former member of the Florida State football team, is planning to sue the NCAA for his final season of eligibility. Glauser lost that season under the old version of the delayed enrol...
Legislative Agenda Short for DII and DIII 23 Aug 2013 | 12:19 am
Division I will have a short-and-sweet legislative agenda over the next year unless the Rules Working Group rolls out some big changes. Divisions II and III will be equally so except for some major ac...
Aussie Rules Football Shows Pointlessness of NCAA Draft Deadline 22 Aug 2013 | 01:41 am
Jeff Eisenberg of Yahoo! Sports has a story about an emerging trend in life after college basketball for some players: Aussie rules football. It seems Australia simply cannot produce enough “ruckmen”,...
Desmond Harrison Caught in BYU/Texas Squabble 21 Aug 2013 | 07:55 pm
When the NCAA’s academic eligibility rules are criticized, the central point is often that one school should not be deciding or restricting the academic policies or decisions of another. Most of the t...
NCAA Explains Limits of Missed Term Exception 20 Aug 2013 | 08:43 pm
The NCAA released an excellent Educational Column on the missed term exception. That exception helps athletes stay eligible when they miss a term by prorating the 18-hour rule by 9 hours per term of a...
MTSU Looking to Help More Athletes Than Just Rhodes 20 Aug 2013 | 12:26 am
The Daily News Journal in Murfeesboro, TN is reporting that Middle Tennessee State is not simply trying to get former Marine Steven Rhodes eligible for the 2013 season. The school is trying to change ...
Legislative Oversight Leads to Eligibility Issues for MTSU’s Rhodes 19 Aug 2013 | 03:39 am
Right now, the narrative is that Steven Rhodes, a former Marine who is a member of Middle Tennessee State’s football team, is being screwed by the NCAA. Rhodes participated in a military rec league, w...
