America’s colleges and universities used more than $2 billion in student fees — an average of more than $500 per student — to subsidize rapidly growing university athletic budgets, as Ohio University professor Richard Vedder wrote at Bloomberg today. Th… more »

‘The right time to step away’ When Dennie Poppe left his hometown of Anchor, Ill., to become a football student-athlete at Missouri in 1966, little did he know it was only the start of an adulthood that would always associate him with college athleti… more »

The NCAA slapped postseason bans on 18 Division I teams on Tuesday for failing to meet its academic-progress requirements. All but three of those teams are at historically black colleges, continuing a troubling pattern among less-wealthy institutions.… more »

Growth. With every college football head coach in the state gathered at the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame for the annual Peach State Pigskin Preview on Tuesday, everybody seemed to be talking about it. While it's business as usual for the Ge… more »

Now that the excitement has worn off from the Colonial Athletic Association's food chain addition of Elon, it's worth asking: What did you expect? A moderately successful athletic program that's competed at the NCAA Division I level for all of 14 yea… more »

Unsolicited advice to Shawn Eichorst for how he can curry favor among the masses: Using his best tough-guy voice, the Nebraska athletic director could proclaim that the Huskers intend to beef up their nonconference football schedules. In other words,… more »

New Mexico State was saved from an uncertain future in football when it was invited to join the Sun Belt as a football-only member in March. Conference realignment had picked apart the WAC to the point of extinction, leaving NMSU and Idaho to fend for t… more »

If you’re an instructor in the Western Athletic Conference, the football coaches at your university and your fellow WAC member institutions are only making triple what you make. Only, because in the Southeastern Conference, the coaches’ salaries are eig… more »

Athletic expenses are rising at a faster pace than revenue is being generated at most Division I schools, according to a new NCAA study. The 2012 Revenue and Expenses Report, released this week, shows Football Bowl Subdivision schools are spending 10… more »

A list of the student-athletes from the FCS selected in the 2013 NFL draft and fresh free agent signings. Dallas, Green Bay, Detroit and Baltimore all drafted a couple players. Read more by College Sporting News http://www.collegesportingnews.com/co… more »

One of the most dominant teams in Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) history is making the move to the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). Georgia Southern University has announced it has accepted an invitation to join the Sun Belt Conference. “Thi… more »

Big 12 Conference commissioner Bob Bowlsby will not try to mandate that his schools no longer play football games against lower-division schools like the Big Ten did last week, but he’s strongly in favor of such practice. “I don’t think those games m… more »

It is extremely early in the process, but the NCAA Division I Rules Working Group is kicking around some of the most revolutionary changes to financial aid in some time. A number of concepts would radically change the landscape for both headcount and eq… more »

The NFL Scouting Combine (National Invitational Camp) will be held February 20 – 26, 2013 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Top Executives, Coaching Staffs, Player Personnel Departments and Medical Personnel from all 32 NFL teams will be on hand to evaluate the… more »

College Sporting News is pleased to use this one day to celebrate the choices, dreams and aspirations of these fine football student-athletes and the institutions that provide the opportunity. It is a big day for the student-athletes signifying their… more »