Arn Tellem on the NCAA Ban on Advisors
Arn Tellem has an interesting piece in the Huffington Post on the NCAA’s ban on player advisors (agents). Here are the first two paragraphs: Of …
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Financial Problems at UC Berkeley
And it has nothing to do with the sorry state of the State Budget. I got an interesting cold call yesterday from a faculty member …
Sweet Lew’s Sweet Compensation Package
Major college athletic programs are run in ways that are very similar their professional brethren. They compete in markets for top talent (except that in …
Stanford May Cut Back in Athletics
From the AP (via a Sports Blog twitter) Stanford’s athletic department is projecting a $5 million loss in revenue over the next three years and …
Report: Lower Ticket Prices for Women’s Basketball is Due to Institutional Sexism
From the Chronicle of Higher Ed.: “Colleges charge a premium for admission to see males play, even when women’s basketball teams are ranked as among …
College Basketball Referee Compensation
John Feinstein has an interesting column in today’s Washington Post about David Hall, a college basketball referee. Sports officiating, even at the elite level, is …
Division III Schools Look at the Academic Performance of Their Athletes
Unlike the other divisions in NCAA competition, Division 3 schools like Washington University and the University of Chicago, two schools with excellent economics programs, do …