NCAA coaches charged with fraud and corruption
Hmm, am I shocked? No, not really. However, I am a little shocked that it was the Feds that caught them. Student-athletes are worth a lot of money to the ...The Value of Recruiting
Echoing Skip's post below, I link to this article about Kansas State assistant basketball coach Dalonte Hill, about whose salary a recent stink was raised: Michael Beasley made Kansas State ...Corruption in college basketball - a result of not using the price system to allocate ...
Like most other fans of college sports, particularly the money sports of football and mens' basketball, I have grown accustomed to the sporadic scandals that seemingly pop up every year. ...The Wooden School of Management
As a young sports fan, I came of age watching but not liking UCLA basketball in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They were Goliath and I pulled for the ...Astounding Breakthrough in Tournament Design
Not sure if you noticed it, but college basketball started last night. The schedule still needs fixing. The NCAA men's championship game takes place before the start of baseball season, ...More March Madness!
Remember the good old days when there were only two postseason men's college basketball tournaments? Things were simple then. If your bubble popped, you either landed in the postseason NIT, ...March Madness: O Canada Version
The second round game between Syracuse and Gonzaga today has an interesting sub-plot: a lot of Canadians will be on the floor. Syracuse guard Andy Rautins and forward Kris Joseph ...Conference Dating Game: Winners and Losers
Several college athletic conference realignments have taken place over the past 20 years in a process not unlike Match.com. Different parties size each other up based on similarities of athletic ...NCAA Options: More of the Same?
A friend and semi-retired finance colleague who read Bobby McCormick and Bob Tollison's insightful post on Subversion of the Academy by the NCAA, wondered where all this goes. He readily ...The Economic Impact of the Demise of the Big XII - Waco
A Waco economist, RayPerryman, has prepared an economic impact statement about the impact of the demise of the Big XII on Waco and Texas (via a commenter to another TSE ...More Big 10 Expansion Talk - Does Basketball Matter?
Following up on Brad's post about Big 10 expansion plans, it looks like the football coaches in the Big XII have no idea what's going on in Expando World. At ...The Use of the Two-Part Tariff in College Ticket Pricing
I've written before that when you look at how college athletic department officials make business decisions, they act a lot like their professional counterparts even though the athletic departments are ...
