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Texting Ban Not Done Deal Yet

If you've followed this space at all in the past couple months you've probably noticed multiple posts on the NCAA's wholesale texting ban as it gets passed by every level of the NCAA bureacracy. One might think that surely this rule has been passed and passed again and is now just a rule set to kick in August 1st. One...

Keeping the Lines Straight

Today, the NCAA Basketball Oversight Panel is expected to formally approve moving the men's 3-point line back 12 inches to 20 feet 9 inches. This is a very good thing for men's college basketball, as the number of 3-point shots attempted in a game has now reached an average of 34% of the total shots. The only downside, is...

The NBA Will Hate the New NCAA Rule

There's been talk about how the new NCAA rule against accepting athletes who attend prep schools for a year to get their grades and scores up to snuff will be a boon to the Junior Colleges. Coaches don't know if junior college basketball will return to the level of 15 years ago, but they expect more talent to be spread...

NCAA Looking Into Text Message Madness

Every time a newspaper reporter deigns to cover the seedy world of recruiting these days you invariably get paragraphs upon paragraphs about the text messaging phenomenon that's swept through the land in the past few years. Coaches are strictly prohibited from calling recruits during extensive "dead periods" during the...

It's Time To Let USC and UCLA Party Like It's 1969

Back in the day when the NCAA wasn't so rule happy and quasi-repressive, competing teams were allowed to wear similar uniforms. Certain teams could wear their Saturday finest home uniforms, and their opponent could do the same. This was aesthetically pleasing and created something of a tradition between cross-town rivals...