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News from January 6-9, 2022 edition:

#10: Southern Indiana MBB has removed five S-As from its roster for the rest of the 2021-22 season, with three being released from the program. USI AD Hall: "Unfortunately, these five student-athletes failed to meet the requirements set forth by the University and the Athletic Department. USI Athletics strives for excellence in the classroom and on and off the court. All USI student-athletes must adhere to the same requirements, and there are no exceptions.” USI MBB HC Gouard: "This is disappointing for our entire program, especially for our student-athletes who are still competing on the court. All of us will recommit to focusing on our academics-character-basketball philosophy that is key to our success.” (link)

News from November 7-9, 2022 edition:

#9: UMary unveiled rendering for its nearly $90M athletic complex that would allow football, baseball soccer and track & field to compete on campus. The football field would seat 2,500 and come with the ability to inflate a dome during adverse weather months. EVP Richter hopes to begin moving dirt next summer on the project that would take an estimated three years to complete: "To be able to pull the trigger, we need to have money identified. A lot of things have come together at the same time. The timing has converged and we don’t want to wait around. People believe in what we’re doing. People believe in Christian education." (link)

News from February 16-17, 2022 edition:

#8: The first MBB Regional Rankings of 2022 featured Indiana (PA), Augustana, Bentley, Truman State, Nova Southeastern, Lubbock Christian, Flagler and Cal State San Bernardino leading their respective regions. (link)

News from September 23-25, 2022 edition:

#7: Colorado Mesa Senior Director of Athletic Giving/former AD Rooks plans to build an endowment that would fully fund athletic scholarships for all 26 programs by 2025. To do so, CMU will need to raise $2M every year, with the university setting aside donations to match its drive for an immediate $2M, and a longer term athletic endowment fund of $40M. Rooks: “It’s not build a plan for football, build a plan for basketball, it’s actually listening to individual donors, and what their wishes and wants are,” Rooks said. “Hopefully, we can get one of them done and then use a waterfall of institutional dollars that are already on the table, plus fundraised dollars to help meet the needs and slowly, you know, attack a $40 million endowment so we can have that 4 million a year.” S&D HC Wender, whose program has 66% of the scholarship limit: “I’ve been told we’re the only top 10 team nationally that isn’t fully funded. ... I think that level of commitment, that investment in this institution will be profound. I think once you arm the coaches with that level of scholarship funding, it’s just going to be a competition who can get to the finish line first in terms of a national championship.” Lots more. (link, link)

News from December 7-9, 2022 edition:

#6: The DII FB Committee has issued a public reprimand to Ferris State S-A Hunt-Thompson and suspended him the remainder of the playoffs for striking an individual with his helmet following the Bulldogs' quarterfinal win over Grand Valley State. FSU has the right to appeal the ruling. (link)

News from August 8-9, 2022 edition:

#5: FOS' Christovich was the first to report the GLIAC has inked the biggest media deal in DII history with FloSports. The deal is "a seven-figure deal over four years." Commissioner Kris Dunbar: "D-II has great content. [The deal] helps D-II overall to show that we have people that respect and want to be a part of what we have to offer." FloSports Senior Director of Global Rights Acquisition Keldorf: "We’ve been thrilled with the success of our D-II properties. Fans really love having access to these games on a robust digital platform like FloSports — and each year, we see growing demand for these sports." (link)

News from October 31 - November 2, 2022 edition:

#4: Wayne State (MI) AD Fournier has been placed on administrative leave for an undisclosed reason. Chief of Staff/SWA Wallace will lead the department in the interim. (link)

News from January 19-20, 2022 edition:

#3: The final NCAA Constitution vote tally was 801-195 with 20 abstentions in favor, per the NCAA’s Katz. (link); Full Constitution. (link); NCAA President Emmert emphasized the importance of several values in the NCAA Constitution during his remarks, including college athletes’ designation as students, schools not paying student-athletes to compete, the prioritization of physical and mental health, and a focus on diversity and inclusion. "[The constitution provides] a chance to look at what is good, what's beloved, what's rewarding and what's supportive of student-athletes. With the passage of the proposed constitution, the divisions will all have a chance — all of you — to redraw the rules and keep what's working well and get rid of the extraneous that's causing so many challenges for so many of us." Acknowledging that legal and political hurdles still exist, Emmert added: “We have to define the future that we want, using this new constitution as the framework to build upon. We have to make clear why students come first. We have to make changes that prove that higher education is still willing and able to govern college sports. And we've got to recognize that if we don't do that, if we don't step up to this challenge now, to this big moment, others are surely willing and able to do it." Full address. (link)

News from September 30 - October 2, 2022 edition:

#2: The Indianapolis Board of Trustees took no action on a DI reclassification at last week's meeting. (link); UIndy Interim President/Trustee Terry sat down with UINDY TV ahead of the meeting to cover a number of topics. Asked of the pros and cons of moving DI, Terry points to the financial impact being a benefit in the long-term, noting on the other hand: "You have to wonder about what it does to your culture. We've got a very unique culture here, one that we're proud of. One we believe is nurturing for our students and our student-athletes and would hate to lose that and you risk that at DI." If the Greyhounds were to move to DI, the "baseline of investment" would be around $10M, with Terry also noting he is personally opposed to a student fee. Should UIndy stay in DII, Terry notes the institution may not be able to continue the significant investment in athletics. Further: "We would also examine the conference we're in. We were a founding member of the GLVC many years ago, but the GLVC has changed over time. It's still a great conference, we love being there, but it's creating some logistics problems for us," namely travel. More including facility needs and tiering sport programs for the Greyhounds. (link)

News from October 7-10, 2022 edition:

#1: New Minnesota Duluth AD Karr camps with the Bulldog Insider PodCast and opens up about the redesign of the mascot, on which he comments: "we're gonna want something that ends up looking pretty close to the mascot costume that they've that people are familiar with. ... we do want to bring the school colors into the final costume in some way." On upcoming NCAA changes: "My biggest hope is that as they go through this process, that they take gender equity into account, right from the start, because we don't want to get in a situation where we have two sports that are identical men's hockey and women's hockey. And we have kind of a different set of rules in place. So for instance, I'm hoping that they don't say, you know, one gender has unlimited scholarships, but the other one has some certain cap, I'm hoping that they don't say one gender has unlimited coaches, one gender has limited to three or four or five, I'm hoping that as they do this, that they're setting these caps wherever they are equally, so that it allows athletic departments to kind of be easier for athletic departments to take gender equity into account as we make our own institutional decisions within these limits that are defined." Lots more. (link)

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