to spend their time enforcing the NCAA’s rules against giving the athletes “impermissible benefits”, given all the cash they bring in for the cartel, coaches and athletics directors. Other people have no shame, like UO’s “Faculty Athletics Representative” Jim O’Fallon: NCAA enforcer Jim O’Fallon NCAA player, kicked off team for…
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2/27/13: The academic side is finally off the hook for the 50% we’d been covering out of tuition money. We’ve written a fair amount on UO General Counsel Randy Geller charging the academic side half the cost of “The Cleaner” Mike Glazier’s work on the Chip Kelly / Willie Lyles recruiting infraction.…
That’s the latest from the sham course scandal at UNC. The NCAA Infractions Committee decided it was an academic scandal, not an athletics one, and washed their hands of it. So did an investigation opened at request of the UNC president, and overseen by the Baker Tilly accounting firm. But…
The University of Oregon’s NCAA Faculty Athletics Representative, James (Jim) O’Fallon, talks about the violations in the New York Times: Taken as whole, said O’Fallon, they presented a “lack of institutional control.” … The amount of money was not so much an issue as was the fact that there appeared…
1/16/2012: Ducks confirm Kelly’s going to the Eagles. So the contractual issues below are back on the table. Is UO going to take steps now to ensure it can recoup some of the costs of the Kelly / Lyles recruiting violations from Kelly, or is the academic side going to get stuck with the…
We’ve written a fair amount on UO General Counsel Randy Geller charging the academic side half the cost of “The Cleaner” Mike Glazier’s work on the Chip Kelly / Willie Lyles scouting business – while he and UO “Faculty Athletics Representative” Jim O’Fallon refused to share any information about the…
Not a joke: The tweets are secondary infractions – probably no penalty. Next Jim O’Fallon’s NCAA Infractions Committee will go after schools for giving their players textbooks. Oh, wait – he’s already done that. What a silly thing for a former Harvard Law fellow, noted first amendment scholar, and self-styled Frank…
12/4/2012: It takes a heavy hand to enforce the NCAA’s rules against letting college football players get any of the fruits of their labor. UO’s Faculty Athletics Representative Jim O’Fallon sits on the NCAA Infractions Committee that wields the lash – and he was lucky he recused himself from this particular case. The…
Seems like the FERPA excuse Randy Geller has been using for UO violations is wearing thin: CHAPEL HILL — North Carolina released more than 2,500 pages of documents relating to the NCAA investigation into the football team, including hand-written responses to the NCAA from former Hillside star Greg Little, more…
Last I heard was this story from John Canzano in July 2011. Lyles was working for $8 an hour in a Houston grocery store, and still trying to get the second $25,000 that he says Chip Kelly, currently earning $2,000 an hour, had promised him.
Update: See the comments for this correction, from Ms Emeldi’s lawyer, David Force, making clear that the Emeldi case is against UO, not against Prof Horner: There is not now and never has been a lawsuit by her against Dr. Horner. The sole defendant in the case is the University…
When you run a hiring monopsony like the NCAA you have to come down hard on defectors believers in free markets like Chip Kelly, who might try to use street agents agents to funnel impermissible benefits pay reasonable compensation to their student athletes players. Tonight’s scoop from former RG reporter George Schroeder, now at USAToday, is…
Just kidding, this is about an earthquake drill, Thursday 10/18/2012 at 9:50 AM. The athletic department will tell no one – not even the Senate IAC – about the negotiations over the NCAA penalties. None of your business, professor. Just keep paying Mike Glazier’s bills. Randy Geller knows what’s best for…
here. I haven’t looked yet. Adam Jude of the Oregonian has. 9/12/2012.
Just a guess, but Randy Geller and UO’s Public Records Office are making a habit of releasing the bad news late on Friday afternoons. I’m hoping this will all be over soon and this blog will get back to addressing more academic matters, including the faculty union and shared governance.…