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#10: Former Westminster Women’s Soccer student-athlete Naomi Kehl’s sexual harassment and hazing lawsuit against the university and HC Tony LeBlanc has been dismissed after Kehl failed to find new representation once her attorneys stepped down this summer. U.S. District Judge David Barlow dismissed the case without prejudice, leaving the door open for Kehl to refile with new representation. (link)
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#9: MIAA Commissioner Mike Racy says the MIAA Network net revenue is up 15% so far year-over-year. “There's no conference that's managing a subscription-based network generating the type of revenue that our MIAA member schools are. It's a true benefit of membership. When you've got schools that are getting double, triple, some cases quadruple the checks back from the MIAA Network that they're being asked to pay at the beginning of the year in membership dues, that's a win. That's a conference that you want to be a part of.” More. (link)
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#8: After a dozen years in the chair, Charleston AD Bren Stevens says this past year was her most difficult as she had to replace eight HCs, six of whom departed for a Division I opportunity. To help prepare and develop her coaches, Stevens conducts 16 professional development sessions per year, with a significant focus on emotional intelligence as a certified emotional intelligence clinician. “As part of the emotional intelligence is helping them to look at areas where they’re really strong and some areas where they’re maybe not quite as strong. I'll say to them what do you want to work on because I want to help you with that. I think if you're not having those kinds of conversations you're really missing out because at the end of the day I want them, when they're ready to go on to whatever that next job is going to be, I want to make sure I have more than prepared them for that.” Stevens adds that she contemplated retiring last year, but has a responsibility to help those new coaches find their footing and plans on being at UC another year or two. More on BOSCA. (link)
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#7: Grand Valley State Women’s Soccer HC Katie Hultin has accepted the same position at Illinois (DI). (link)
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#6: San Francisco State has declared a financial emergency, as it plans to cut $25M from its budget with enrollment down 25% in the last five years and a potential state budget cut of 7.95% or $21M. (link) |
#5: A trio of researchers from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia have released a new model for predicting institutional closures and those at the greatest risk. The machine learning model that most accurately predicted closures between 2002 and 2023 was used to predict what may happen with the looming enrollment cliff that could see a 15% decline in enrollment between 2025 and 2029. If the drop-off is immediate, “there could be as many as 80 (142 percent of the average annual closures) additional closures. On the other hand, a gradual decrease in enrollment equivalent to the demographic cliff would result in a predicted annual increase in the rate of closures of 4.6 (an increase of 8.1 percent over the average annual closures).” Full report. (link)
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#4: Coming out of SACSCOC’s annual meeting, Saint Leo’s accreditation probation has been lifted, Erskine has been placed on probation for good cause, Christian Brothers and Virginia Union will remain on probation for good cause and Kentucky State has been placed on warning. Full report. (link)
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#3: Check out the matchups for the Women’s Volleyball semifinals to be held on Friday, Dec. 13. (link) |
#2: Peach Belt Commissioner David Brunk will retire at the end of the academic year after 18 years leading the conference. Brunk: “I had a very clear idea as to what I thought the Peach Belt could become when I got here. There was a real opportunity to move the league into a place of national leadership and innovation while continuing the tradition of winning that has been in place since the conference was founded. I'm thankful that so many people believed in the changes I wanted to implement and helped me see those to fruition. The job is never really done, you are always searching and thinking of ways to enhance the experience for student-athletes and provide the best support and leadership for the member institutions. That will be something I miss, the opportunity to try something new and innovative that might never have been done in Division II before.” Deputy Commissioner Diana Kling will succeed Brunk leading the league. (link)
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#1: Harding Football HC Paul Simmons took to Facebook to share the financial implications of the Bison’s playoff run. “I expect that we will come out of this game with Ferris State with a debt of close to 175k - just for our three road playoff games combined. That money is not budgeted and that money will have to be raised. The NCAA provides a playoff daily stipend for hotel rooms and for meals, but that stipend is only for 70 people total and it is not nearly enough to cover the daily cost of hotel and meal for a person. When a team has to fly, the NCAA pays for 70 people to fly. Anybody beyond that 70 person limit is charged $1000 to get on the plane. Our essential travel party - players, coaches, GAs, team doctor, managers is right at 100 people. Our bill for essential people will be at least 30K for each round and that does not include coaches' wives or seniors that don't get to dress out. […] For our road games we usually travel around 75 guys (would travel more but the cost is just too high). In the playoffs, each team is only allowed to dress 58 players. So for 17-20 of our finest young men, the playoffs are a really hard pill to swallow. They have worked like crazy all year and have been a huge part of every second of every day and suddenly they are not even allowed to travel with the team because of cost, much less dress out and be on the sideline. Extremely difficult situation and I hate it.” (link)
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