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 UNLV AD Livengood Announces Retirement
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SBJ Article
New bid format for NCAA sites
Published May 20, 2013 by Michael SmithThe NCAA has completed an overhaul of the bid process for 84 of its championships across all three divisions, including the Final Four, and will award close to 500 sites this year. It’s easily the largest bid process in the history of college sports’ governing body, and the selections will lock in sites from 2014-15 through 2017-18, plus the 2019 men’s Final Four. That includes all preliminary rounds and final sites. Its many champio...
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John Swofford Says ACC Hopes To "Protect" Member Schools Financially
Published May 17, 2013ACC 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. FSU in December “lost about $440,000 in ticket expenses” after its win over Georgia Tech in the ACC football Championship Game in Charlotte. Swofford said, "We want to protect the schools better going forward on the ticketing sid...
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Rutgers Hires Louisville's Hermann As New AD; Only Fourth Female AD In FBS
Published May 16, 2013Former 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 was "instrumental" in guiding the school's moves from Conference USA to the Big East and from the Big East to the ACC. Hermann becomes only the fourth woman to be an AD at an FBS school, joining N.C...
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Spring Meetings: Aresco Talks AAC Marketing; Big East Commissioner Update
Published May 16, 2013The "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, we want to be judged now on what we do going forward.” He added, "You have to have performance. We want to start getting the word out who is in our conference, why it's strong in basketball, why it's going to ...
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Garden Party? ACC Reportedly Looking Into Moving Basketball Tournament To MSG
Published May 16, 2013The 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 MSG in March announced a 12-year deal through '26, but sources said that MSG can “get out of its deal" before '26 if the Big East "doesn't reach certain benchmarks” (ESPN.com, 5/15). ESPN.com’s An...
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UNC-Wilmington Athletics Review Calls For Program To Eliminate Five Sports
Published May 16, 2013The 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 Brian Mull of the Wilmington STAR NEWS. A UNCW spokesperson said the final decision on the recommendations will be reached in the "coming weeks." The decision requires "approval of the chancellor ...
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College Facility Notes: Boise State To Get New Videoboard
Published May 16, 2013In 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 the north end of Bronco Stadium, which “debuted in 2001, is roughly 24x18.” BSU “did not provide a timeline,” but was accepting bids through yesterday, which “hints that the Broncos would like to install it this year....
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ACC Newcomers Dixon, Boeheim Pushing For Conference Tournament In N.Y.
Published May 15, 2013Pittsburgh 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 difficult to overcome the tournament's Tobacco Road roots." The ACC Tournament traditionally has been in Greensboro, N.C., and "never has been held north of the Mason-Dixon line." Dixon said, "Obvi...
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Hawaii AD Announces All Athletic Teams Will Be Include Rainbow In Nickname
Published May 15, 2013In 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, he announced that "all UH men's teams would be named Warriors, dropping Rainbows from those that still had it part of their name." Since '00, some had "been named Rainbows, some Warriors and some Rain...
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Iowa Adhering To Big Ten Request On FCS Teams; Could Keep Northern Iowa Game
Published May 10, 2013Iowa 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 that our conference is well positioned, so we just talked about strengthening our schedule." Barta noted every school in the conference is "taking a look at contracts they already had in place" regarding FCS opponents. I...
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UNLV AD Livengood Announces Retirement; Strained Relationship With President To Blame?
Published May 09, 2013UNLV 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 Smatresk essentially forced out Livengood." But both men "say that’s not reality." Among many possible factors in "hastening that decision could be a meeting between Livengood and Smatresk in the p...
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Rutgers Begins AD Interview Process; New Law Firm Hired For Mike Rice Review
Published May 09, 2013Rutgers Univ. is "in the first phase of the interview process in its search for a new athletic director, with a half-dozen university officials set to meet" with Buccaneers Dir of Football Operations and former Rutgers Deputy AD Kevin MacConnell regarding the vacancy, according to a source cited by Tom Luicci of the Newark STAR-LEDGER. MacConnell, who served as an administrator in the Rutgers athletic department for 26 years, is "expected to be among approximately 10 candidates brought in for...
