http://www.collegesportingnews.com/ en Thu, 20 Jun 2013 12:25:22 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.collegesportingnews.com/images/misc/rss.png http://www.collegesportingnews.com/ http://www.collegesportingnews.com/showthread.php?36847-NCCU-keeps-coach-as-Frazier-AD-bid-fails&goto=newpost Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:20:13 GMT 06-19-2013 01:14 AM N.C. Central football coach Henry Frazier III is OK after coming up short in his bid to become athletic director at Prairie... 06-19-2013 01:14 AM

N.C. Central football coach Henry Frazier III is OK after coming up short in his bid to become athletic director at Prairie View A&M, whose football team he overhauled into a champion prior to his arrival in Durham to lead the Eagles.
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America’s colleges and universities used more than $2 billion in student fees — an average of more than $500 per student — to subsidize rapidly growing university athletic budgets, as Ohio University professor Richard Vedder wrote at Bloomberg today. Those fees can top $1,000 a year at some schools, and as Vedder writes, reliance on them ends up making college more expensive for students and often places the burden on the poorest students. And most of the time, students don’t even know they’re paying the fees.
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The NCAA’s Academic Performance Program revamped the Academic Progress Rate (APR) data in 2011, wary of the struggles historic black colleges and universities were facing in their compilation and submission of data each year.
New rules that went into place with the 2012-13 academic year don’t seem to have helped the situation, however.
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‘The right time to step away’
When Dennie Poppe left his hometown of Anchor, Ill., to become a football student-athlete at Missouri in 1966, little did he know it was only the start of an adulthood that would always associate him with college athletics.
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Rick Hall likes what he sees. So much so that when the DeLand Parks and Recreation director views prominent changes to the city’s football stadium — which soon will host Stetson’s first football game since 1956 — he can almost hear a crowd cheering in the distance.
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The NCAA slapped postseason bans on 18 Division I teams on Tuesday for failing to meet its academic-progress requirements. All but three of those teams are at historically black colleges, continuing a troubling pattern among less-wealthy institutions.
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This could finally be Rocco’s season
This may be the season a Danny Rocco-coached team reaches the FCS playoffs after two unusual exclusions. Twenty-four teams, up from 20, will make the 2013 FCS field, including three additional at-large qualifiers.
Rocco’s Richmond team last year went 8-3, 6-2 CAA Football, and was the league’s first team since 1996 with those records to be excluded from the playoffs.
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A standout North Dakota State University football player was charged Monday with felony aggravated assault, accused of beating a man unconscious in a downtown Fargo street after the bars let out early Sunday.
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The schools have filed penalty waivers which are currently under review.
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Big Sky Conference Commissioner Doug Fullerton is completing his 18th year overseeing the Division I league. Commissioner Fullerton recently sat down with Assistant Commissioner for Media Relations Jon Kasper to answer some questions about the future of the league, the current state of the NCAA, the future of FCS football, and other hot-button issues.
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Craig Bohl, head coach of the North Dakota State University football program that’s coming off back-to-back national titles in the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision, was the first non-UND employee to land on the top 20 list, earning the No. 5 spot with $367,843.
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I caught up with former SIU football coach Jerry Kill, who is now at Minnesota, at the Liberty Wealth Management 5K/Fun Run in Carterville a few days ago.
Liberty Wealth Management is owned by former Saluki quarterback Joel Sambursky, who is still very tight with his old coach. Kill said a few words to the runners and walkers, walked the course at Walker’s Bluff with his wife and took a few minutes to chat with me.
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The Southern Conference has extended Commissioner John Iamarino’s contract three years, a week after the league added three new members to shore up its future.
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Big Sky Conference Commissioner Doug Fullerton commiserates with Montana football fans who are frustrated with the NCAA’s prolonged investigation into the Griz football program.
The investigation was announced in January of 2012 and came on the heels of several allegations of sexual assaults committed by members of the football team.
At the time it was said the investigation could last 12 months; it’s now at 16 months and counting.
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The Colonial Athletic Association wraps up five days of meetings at Hilton Head, S.C., on Wednesday, which conveys a couple of things: Their meetings are in better locales than yours and mine; they have a heck of a lot to address.
Old members, new members. Exit fees, entry fees. Football-only schools, all-sports schools. Revenue distribution. Scheduling. TV arrangements and game broadcasts.
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