Here are the punishments Emmert and the NCAA announced today for Penn State. I have three comments: 1. Why only one year worth of financial penalties and who gets the $60 million? Why didn’t the NCAA require that these moneys go to the victims? Is the NCAA (rightly) afraid it will be sue3d[...]
Posts Tagged ‘athletics’
December 1st, 2011 - 11:09 pm § in Hypocrisy, Schools & Colleges
Penn State: Where there is smoke, shouldn’t you look for fire?
Joe Paterno Advocated Special Treatment For Penn State Football Players: Report By SEANNA ADCOX 11/22/11 Huffington Post and AP, excerpts Asked …whether disciplinary cases at Penn State (other than the Sandusky affair)would be reviewed, an NCAA spokeswoman said she had nothing else to say a[...]
The Ironic Role of Marc Emmert in the Penn State Scandal.
Emmert Says Penn State Child Abuse Scandal, a ‘Cautionary Tale,’ An article by Libby Sander in the Chronicle of Higher Education quotes liberally from UW recent ex-President about the situation at Penn State. “It certainly didn’t help Penn State’s reputation,” Emmert said. “Thi[...]
October 21st, 2011 - 11:14 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Goldman Sachs on The US Education System
from Jerusalem Post (excerpts) Abby Joseph Cohen, former Chief Investment Strategist at Goldman Sachs and now President of their Global Market Institute : “The most important challenge confronting the US economy is the education we provide our workers”. To be sure, Cohen cites the fed[...]
October 13th, 2011 - 9:57 am § in Schools & Colleges
The Business of College Atheletics: Madoff Comes to College Sports
Former Kentucky and current Texas Tech coach Billy Gillispie allegedly had an investment valued at $2.3 million excerpts from Sports Illustrated: More than a dozen current and former college coaches — including Texas Tech’s Billy Gillispie, Arizona’s Lute Olson, Baylor’s Scot[...]
April 13th, 2011 - 10:16 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Higher Education Group at Seattle MoveON
Starting after the Civil War, step by step America created a university system, including private and public colleges, that offered unheard of opportunities for an upwardly mobile America. The words are still thrilling .. GI Bill, Land Grant Universities, Pell Grants, National Merit Awards[...]
March 30th, 2011 - 9:45 am § in Schools & Colleges
NADER ,,Taming the Beast!
WASHINGTON — Consumer advocate Ralph Nader is calling for the elimination of college athletic scholarships, saying the move is necessary to “de-professionalize” college athletes. “As we near the exciting conclusion of `March Madness’ – which would more accurately be descr[...]