In this episode, we introduce a new segment – Legal Perspective on Athletics – featuring Justin Sievert. Justin is a partner at Sievert Werly, LLC and experienced in the collegiate sports industry. This episode discusses the NCAA’s “institutional control” principle and how schools can avoid the dreaded “lack of institutional control” often cited in major […]
How to Create the Perfect Organizational Culture
By Dan Rockwell, leadershipfreak.blog The future of organizations is determined by the ways we choose to relate to each other. Imagine: It helps to know where you want to go before you start down the path. Imagine an organization that functions perfectly. What do people believe about themselves in your perfect organization? How are you functioning in […]
The Attitude Toward Sexual And Athlete Violence In College Sports Must Change
By B. David Ridpath, www.forbes.com The Almost Routine Normalcy of These Stories It is all over the news this week about about an alleged rape concerning yet another athlete at a major NCAA Division I institution. Sadly these stories have become far too common and even more unfortunate that this story takes us back to Chapel Hill, […]
Between Division III Athletes and Professors
By Michael Nelson, Evan Tucker, www.insidehighered.com Division III colleges and universities, which don’t award athletic scholarships, outnumber their generally much larger Division I counterparts by 442 to 347. Yet many professors at Division III liberal arts colleges earned their advanced degrees at Division I universities at which varsity athletes are less than 5 percent of the student body, live and […]
College Football’s New Secret Weapon: Coaches Who Don’t Coach
By Marc Tracy, New York Times When Nick Saban, Alabama’s football coach, decided to replace his offensive coordinator, Lane Kiffin, in the run-up to last season’s national championship game, he had an experienced former head coach ready to step in. Actually, he had several. Not including Saban, there were five former top-tier head coaches on the […]
PoA096 | Kicking off 2017-18
In this episode, Mark Majeski explains some of the changes, enhancements and on-going efforts to improve ATHLEDIFY.
How To Build Your Leadership Capacity
By Jeff Boss, www.forbes.com When I was going through selection and training for a particular SEAL team, one of the first things the instructors did was send the class a message about leadership: they cut the majority of the officers and senior enlisted from leadership positions and replaced them with junior members. The reason behind this was […]
Eliminating Sport Programs
With increasing budget pressures, some institutions have dropped sport programs as as cost-saving measure. If you are in this situation, how should you go about the decision-making process? How do you evaluate which sports to eliminate and which ones to keep?