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New NIL Bill Alert | Examining the Collegiate Athletic Compensation Rights Act
By Katie Lever, Ph. D|December 17, 2020
As college athlete name, image, and likeness chatter continues at the close of the year, Mississippi senator Roger Wicker has entered the chat with a new federal NIL bill. Last...
ncaa
Name, Image, and Likeness Update | NCAA Proposal
By Katie Lever, Ph. D|October 15, 2020
On Monday night (10-5-2020) Sports Illustrated announced the NCAA's latest proposal for modifications to its existing NIL rules. Although the proposal isn't perfect, it's the most liberal proposal yet, and...
scholarship
Policy Update on Merit, Needs-Based, and Athletic Scholarships in the NCAA
By Katie Lever, Ph. D|July 30, 2020
On July 15th, the NCAA's Division 1 Council voted to adopt legislation that exempts need-and-merit-based financial aid from counting against athletic scholarship limits for partial-scholarship sports. The rule is set...
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Key Points for Athletes | NCAA’s Return-to-Sport Guidelines
By Katie Lever, Ph. D|July 22, 2020
College athlete health and safety has been on the minds of many coaches, college sports fans, and of course, athletes themselves for quite some time. Several conferences and universities have...
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Keeping up with the Conferences | A Glimpse at Rapid Changes in College Sports
By Katie Lever, Ph. D|July 13, 2020
Will there be a fall season? What will happen in the spring? Who is calling the shots here? These questions seem to be on the minds of all of us...
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Bad Takes from the NCAA Senate Hearing on the NIL Laws
By Katie Lever, Ph. D|July 10, 2020
College athlete name, image, and likeness (NIL) laws are coming, whether leaders in college sports like it or not. That's why, on July 1st, a group of representatives met in...
college recruiting
Amid Coronavirus, Are Mandatory Practices Safer Than “Voluntary” Workouts? Yes and No
By Katie Lever, Ph. D|July 2, 2020
The NCAA's Division 1 Council has officially released a six-week plan for teams to begin mandatory practices, and the starting date for these practices varies slightly from school to school....
college recruiting
COVID-19 Risk Waivers | Here’s What We Know So Far
By Katie Lever, Ph. D|June 26, 2020
Voluntary workouts are currently underway around the country, and some universities, like Ohio State, are requiring their athletes to sign risk waivers. What do we know about these documents? In...
social media
Censorship in College Athletics, What You Need to Know
By Katie Lever, Ph. D|June 25, 2020
Every prospective athlete should know that college recruiters comb through the social media profiles of the athletes they recruit. Even if a high school athlete dreams of making it to...
Florida
Is the “Fairness in Collegiate Athletics Act” Truly Fair? What College Athletes Need to Know About a Federal NIL Bill
By Katie Lever, Ph. D|June 24, 2020
Last week, Florida senator Marco Rubio proposed the “Fairness in Collegiate Athletics Act,” one of the few federal bills designed to regulate the economic activities of college athletes competing in...
football
Coronavirus and College Football | Are Athletes Covered by Insurance?
By Katie Lever, Ph. D|June 18, 2020
As football season approaches, coronavirus is spreading among college football teams. Last week, several players from the University of Alabama tested positive for the disease. Yesterday, two athletes from Kansas...
coaches
The Problem with “Voluntary” Workouts
By Katie Lever, Ph. D|June 11, 2020
On May 20, the NCAA gave the green light for athletes in all sports to start voluntary workouts beginning June 1. As a former Division 1 athlete, hearing the term...
Insights from an NCAA Policy Specialist | Don’t Clap for the NIL Announcement Just Yet
By Katie Lever, Ph. D|April 29, 2020
Just hours ago, the NCAA's top governing body made an announcement supporting a proposal to regulate athletes' rights to profit from their names, images, and likenesses (NIL). Already, sports outlets...
Must Know
Three Things Every Recruit Should Know About Athletic Scholarships
By Katie Lever, Ph. D|March 16, 2020
The devil is in the details, the old adage goes, and the NCAA is great at creating a detail-laden policy that is complicated, frustrating and nearly impossible to understand. Even...
Mid-major Madness!
Keep Your Eyes on the Little Guys: The Best Mid-Major Football Matchups of Week 4
By Katie Lever, Ph. D|September 26, 2022
As a former mid-major college athlete, I'm always on the lookout for high-quality small program football games on Saturdays and I didn't have to look too hard this past weekend....
