Pac-12's Scott Highest Paid Commish In '11 ACC Hopes To "Protect" Schools Financially Julie Hermann Introduced As Rutgers AD Conferences Hold Spring Meetings ACC Looking Into MSG Basketball Tourney UNC-Wilmington Athletics Review Calls For Cuts College Facility Notes Pitt, 'Cuse Push For N.Y. ACC Tourney Hawaii Brings Rainbow Back To Nickname Iowa Not Scheduling Any More FCS Schools
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Pac-12's Larry Scott Was Highest Paid Conference Commissioner In '1105 / 20 / 13Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott earned nearly $3.1M in compensation during the '11 calendar year, including $1.575M "in base compensation" and about $1.5M in "bonus and other pay," according to Steve Berkowitz of USA TODAY. Scott's compensation is "about $300,000 more than that reported for Big... Tags: Colleges |
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ACC Hopes To "Protect" Schools Financially
ACC Commissioner John Swofford at the end of the conference’s spring meetings on Thursday said that he “wanted to ‘protect’ his member schools from experiencing the types of financial loses that FSU saw in December,” according to Coley Harvey of the ORLANDO SENTINEL. FS ...
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Julie Hermann Introduced As Rutgers AD
Former Univ. of Louisville Exec Senior Associate AD Julie Hermann yesterday was introduced as Rutgers Univ.'s new AD, with RU President Robert Barchi praising her "experience, vision and commitment," according to the Newark STAR-LEDGER. Barchi called Hermann a "proven fundraiser" at UL, adding she w ...
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Conferences Hold Spring Meetings
The "clear message" at next week's American Athletic Conference spring meetings will be that it is "time to move forward,” according to Desmond Conner of the HARTFORD COURANT. AAC Commissioner Mike Aresco said the meetings, beginning Monday in Ponte Vedra, Fla., “We're a new conference, ...
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ACC Looking Into MSG Basketball Tourney
The ACC is "thoroughly investigating" playing its men's basketball tournament at Madison Square Garden, according to sources cited by Brett McMurphy of ESPN.com. A source said, "We'll be playing there. It's just a matter of getting all the legal ramifications worked out." The Big East Conference and ...
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UNC-Wilmington Athletics Review Calls For Cuts
The Intercollegiate Athletics Review Committee at the Univ. of North Carolina-Wilmington yesterday recommended that the school "no longer sponsor teams in men's and women's swimming and diving, men's indoor track, men's cross country and softball beginning in the 2013-14 academic year," according to ...
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College Facility Notes
In Boise, Chadd Cripe reports Boise State has a “splashy new videoboard.” The Idaho State Board of Education yesterday gave the school “approval to go shopping for a board that would be approximately 60 feet wide by 33 feet tall at a cost of" up to $2M. The current videoboard in th ...
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Pitt, 'Cuse Push For N.Y. ACC Tourney
Pittsburgh basketball coach Jamie Dixon said that he and Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim yesterday during the ACC basketball coaches meetings "made their pitch for the league to move its tournament to New York," according to Sam Werner of the PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE. But Dixon admitted that "it would be ...
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Hawaii Brings Rainbow Back To Nickname
In a "stunning reversal of his first major decision as University of Hawaii athletic director, Ben Jay has changed course and will name all of Manoa's men's athletic teams Rainbow Warriors," according to Reardon & McInnis of the HONOLULU STAR-ADVERTISER. Jay became UH AD in January. In February, ...
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Iowa Not Scheduling Any More FCS Schools
Iowa AD Gary Barta on Thursday confirmed the school in the future will not be "scheduling any other FCS schools," following through on a policy the Big Ten first discussed earlier this year. Barta appeared on ESPN's "College Football Live" and said, "We just want to make sure tha ...
UNLV AD Livengood Announces Retirement
UNLV AD Jim Livengood yesterday announced he would "step away after three and a half years," with his resignation effective June 30, according to Taylor Bern of the LAS VEGAS SUN. Speculation "immediately swirled about the timing of the announcement with some boosters suggesting UNLV President Neal ...
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