That cuts both ways. Going to the actual school gives you a chance to find out if the guys on the team are ok people or not. That's not always conducive to liking the team.
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"It's just going to be some fun for a night."
Agreed, with the caveat that hitting and the ability to take a beating in the corner yields possession. So players that can do that are still important.
I'm not persuaded. It's kind of obvious that actually possessing the puck gives a team better scoring opportunities. Just shooting from the outside to a goalie that has it squared-up could yield a high SOG without any goals. That's logically true but also obvious to anyone who's watched many games. But the team that…
I'm not a math person, but I believe there must be a lot of room for better understanding of "shot quality" and shot selection. The numbers show us that total shots correlate to possession and that correlates to outcomes, but it does not follow, therefore, that just bombing away from the blue-line to increase the shot…
I don't know if a lawsuit is the best course of action, but the dad may be right on this one. A coach shouldn't be allowed to compel a kid to patronize his side-business.
To use a non-sports hypothetical, if a teacher sold cars on the side (and given what teachers make, I imagine a lot do have sales jobs on the side)…
They don't. At least, not in this case. It's not like Boeheim was offering an assessment of his character. He was talking about his game. NBA coaches can assess that for themselves.
Good to know.
I'd add that the timing of it probably doesn't matter as much as this article implies. If they'd won the national championship and then he was found responsible for a rape later, the school would be in a world of PR shit and perhaps NCAA shit and possibly have to vacate the championship. (although it's impossible to…
Surely, all of that opens them to a civil suit. No?
You kind of buried the most important point there. The DA didn't bring charges. A university is not equipped to be The Law. That's what legal system is for and the system is designed to error on the side of letting the guilty go free rather than imprison the innocent. It does that sometimes anyway but the "beyond a…
They could have air-tight evidence that he murdered six hookers and they'd still try to get something in a trade if they could.
The cost of all of this specialized gear will probably come down over time.
Many schools offer a statistics major. I don't think there's really a need for a specialized sports statistics program as long as the teachers let the students do sports-related projects.
My understanding is that the city is finally going to force MSG to shut down so they can fix the train station. I'm not sure what that means for the Rangers and Knicks.
Sports- especially basketball and football - do bring kids to campus who are there just to play sports and don't care about school. That should not be the stereotype of all D1 basketball or football players, but it is certainly some non-zero number. One way to mitigate that is for the system to not essentially force…
Great news. I don't know if they should count as employees, but that really shouldn't be the test for whether they should be allowed to unionize (although I know, under current law, it is). College athletes education, future livelihoods, and health, not to mention the operation of their sports, are being determined by…
I think everyone is misunderstanding "non-profit." It doesn't mean "non revenue." It just means that they don't have shareholders to pay out to. The money goes back into whatever it is. The difference is really just accounting. Sometimes non-profits have a lot of money. Many non-profit organizations have large staffs…
Also, while the NCAA is bad, intercollegiate athletics are, in general, very good. The problem is that the athletes have no say in how they are governed or how the revenue they create is distributed.