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#10: ESPN’s Pete Thamel reports that Louisiana Monroe is planning to take disciplinary action against Football O-line AC Cameron Blankenship for his outburst on the sideline. "This behavior is not acceptable," the athletic department said in a statement. The discipline will be handled internally, as it is a personnel matter. (link)
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#9: As South Carolina’s AD search moves forward, The Big Spur’s John Whittle reports some “names that I feel comfortable in saying are going to either be involved in the process, or who South Carolina is going to want to be involved in the process. I am still told that (President Michael) Amiridis is leaning towards hiring a current athletics director, preferably at a Power 4 school. I can't completely rule out other candidates, but a sitting AD seems to be the most likely direction.” The list includes Georgia Tech AD J Batt, Army West Point AD Mike Buddie, Gamecocks Senior Deputy AD Jeff Crane, Georgia Executive Assoc. AD for Strategic Communications Steven Drummond, Towson AD Steve Eigenbrot, Arkansas AD Hunter Yurachek and LSU Executive Deputy AD/COO Keli Zinn. (link)
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#8: ESPN analyst Kirk Herbstreit announces his beloved golden retriever, Ben, has passed away. We offer our deepest condolences. All dogs go to Heaven. (link)
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#7: USF Football HC Alex Golesh barely shook hands with FAU HC Tom Herman following the Bulls’ 44-21 victory. Herman attempted to chase down Golesh to talk but Golesh was not overly receptive, saying to reporters after the fact: “Not a whole lot of back and forth. Nothing, really. I said a year ago we would be back to get it, and we came back to get it. Whatever was said, I’m good.” (link, link)
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#6: Wake Forest has installed a new “WAKE FOREST” panel inside Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Deacs AD John Currie explains the “semi-permanent panel ‘right-sizes’ LJVM's basketball capacity to 12,799, the sixth largest capacity of the 18 ACC home buildings.” (link - release, link - pictures)
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#5: The SEC has set a football scholarship limit of 85 for 2025, according to Yahoo’s Ross Dellenger, who notes schools can still have rosters up to 105 and adds: “The SEC is exploring its own scholarship limits for other sports as well, though those are not finalized. Discussions in baseball, for instance, have centered on a scholarship limit of around 25 within the settlement-related roster of 34.” (link)
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#4: The American Enterprise Institute has ranked more than 400 current and former college presidents who served between 2000–01 and 2022–23 on how well they improved access, affordability, and student success over the course of their presidency. The rankings reveal that some presidents were “superstars” at improving access, affordability and student success. These presidents cut tuition costs, expanded access to low-income and racially underrepresented student groups, and increased graduation rates. But some presidents performed poorly in these areas, with a handful overseeing steep declines in graduation rates, affordability, and access. According to the AEI’s Cody Christensen, the “wide spread across the rankings suggests that higher education boards should begin using performance metrics to hold college presidents accountable for the changes in the outcomes of their students.” The report also found that 20.1% of all current presidents are female, 79.9% of all current presidents are white, 9.7% are black, 2.2% are Hispanic, 8.2% are Asian and the average length of tenure is 7.6 years. For all presidents during the course of the study, the average tenure was 7.95 years. Christensen: “The goal of these rankings is to provide high-level, publicly available information that highlights the best leaders, similar to how public information about private companies (such as stock prices, quarterly revenues, and growth projections) is used to judge the best leaders of private companies. The rankings also reveal which college presidents are consistently low performers, helping oversight organizations keep institutional leaders accountable.” Full study and rankings, which for DI leaders is topped by San Diego President James Harris. (link - summary & methodology, link - rankings)
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#3: San Jose State Women’s Volleyball Assoc. HC Melissa Batie-Smoose is “not with the team at this time,” per a statement from the school. More from SJSU: “To be clear, we are not confirming a suspension. The associate head coach is not with the team at this time, and we will not provide further information on this matter.” Batie-Smoose spoke to Outkick & says the institution is trying to silence her after she previously voiced that “only women should be in women’s sports.” (link)
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#2: Coastal Carolina Assoc. AD for Media Relations Rixon Lane announces the department is “going in a different direction which no longer requires my services.” (link)
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#1: UIC selects Utah Jazz Chief Experience Officer Andrea Williams as its new AD. Williams previously served as COO of the CFP and Commissioner of the Big Sky. Chancellor Marie Lynn Miranda: "Andrea Williams brings a wealth of experience across collegiate and professional sports and a proven track record of success in managing complex athletic programs, and expanding partnerships with other institutions, conferences and organizations. Her strategic vision for our athletic programs will elevate UIC's national profile for our Division I teams while remaining deeply committed to the academic success and personal growth of our student-athletes." Parker Executive Search assisted with the process. (link)
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