#10: The Men's and Women's Soccer Rules Committee proposed substitution rules changes for men's competition, effective for the 2024 season. The committee also recommended stopping the clock on all substitutions in the last 15 minutes of the second half and in overtime periods. Additional recommendations include expanding video review for potential PK situations, straight red card situations, offside violations and fouls that deny obvious scoring opportunities. Also, the committee is proposing using the sudden-victory format for postseason play. (link) |
#9: Saginaw Valley State Women’s Tennis HC Andrew Sendek is no longer leading the Cardinals. (link) |
#8: NCAA VP of DII and Liaison to the Board of Governors Terri Steeb Gronau joins D2.ticker/Connect’s Anthony Grassi from the 2024 NCAA Convention to outline the key issues in DII, areas of focus for the 2025 Convention, championships and more. One key legislative area of focus for 2025 will be changes to the recruiting process: “It's built off of a system where you were trying to legislate for the small minority and that works sometimes, but in most cases it just really doesn't work and so for Division II schools, their budget is going to control how they recruit student-athletes. Technology has completely changed the way coaches interact with prospects and our legislation has not kept up and so we needed to figure out a way to say what does it mean to be a Division II coach, a Division II school? How are you contacting prospects? What does it really mean to bring them on an official visit? What does it mean to bring them on an unofficial visit? Should we really care how many prospects do an official visit at a Division II school? Budgets are going to control that. Coaches know what they're doing so let's trust them and let them do the recruiting that they know how to do.” The division is also exploring potential changes to postseason bracketing and regionalization. “I'm also excited about the conversations our sport committees are going to have about championship bracketing. How do we continue to enhance the student-athlete experience at our national championships? Many of them because we just financially didn't have the dollars to do it have not been able to really have this conversation so again sky's the limit, like what makes sense, what makes sense for your sport, how can we enhance this student-athlete experience so all of that is going to be exciting.” More on the Hudl streaming pilot this year, sports moving behind the paywall and conversations with student-athletes can be found only on Connect. (link) |
#7: Bloomfield will suspend Men’s and Women’s Cross Country and Track & Field, Women’s Soccer and Women’s Bowling at the end of this academic year, with the six part-time coaches to be let go. Of note: “The suspensions come as part of an ongoing review of all Bloomfield College of Montclair State University programs and operations, which includes evaluation of student demand for programs and services and whether there are duplicate programs, among other factors. […] Interested student athletes will also have the opportunity to participate in open tryouts for Montclair State University's NCAA Division III teams in applicable sports at the beginning of the 2024-2025 academic year.” (link) |
#6: Vivature CEO Mouzon Bass and President Lance West Wilson, along with physician Robert Brent Scott, have been indicted by a federal grand jury and charged with conspiring to commit wire fraud, conspiring to commit healthcare fraud, and conspiring to commit money laundering. Another physician, Kyle Carter, has been charged with conspiring to commit wire fraud. The indictments allege that from roughly 2014-2023, Bass and Wilson used Vivature to submit false claims to private insurance carriers purporting that physicians, like Scott and Carter, were providing medical services for injured student-athletes at universities across the country. According to the DOJ, the services were actually performed by athletic trainers employed by the universities who were specifically excluded from insurance companies’ reimbursement policies. In total, the defendants are alleged to have collectively obtained more than $70M, which they used to purchase property, including a multimillion dollar home, lakehouse, and an international residence; and bought a multimillion dollar yacht. (link) |
#5: Notable requests from the Minnesota state legislature for facility upgrades include nearly $72M for Winona State to replace old facilities and build the state’s first net-zero energy building, $39.5M for Minnesota Duluth to renovate a trio of facilities and more. (link) |
#4: Lincoln (MO) selects MSU Denver Asst. AD for Academics and Compliance Fred Holmes as its new Assoc. AD for Compliance and Student Success. (link) |
#3: Lenoir-Rhyne unveiled plans for a $3M renovation to its Softball stadium, which will be renamed McCrorie Family Stadium after Hank '60 Bernice McCrorie who provided the lead gift for the project. Upgrades will include a new stadium-style grandstand, video board, dugouts, press box, stadium entrance, two VIP viewing areas, concession stand and more. (link) |
#2: Lincoln Memorial promotes Senior Assoc. AD for Internal Operations/Director of Men's and Women's Golf Travis Muncy to AD, effective immediately. EVP for Administration Jody Goins: "Travis Muncy has been an integral part of the LMU athletics community for over 20 years, and we are thrilled to welcome him into this new role as Director of Athletics. His dedication to excellence both on and off the field, along with his deep understanding of internal operations, make him the ideal candidate to lead our athletics department into the future." (link) |
#1: In addition to stripping Saint Augustine’s accreditation, SACSCOC has placed Christian Brothers, Saint Leo and Virginia Union on probation. (link) |
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