The SWC Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. Many sports professionals believe that two reasons for the demise of the Southwest Conference occurred in the 1980s. One was the upstart ESPN, which negotiated long-term contracts with college teams promising to enhance a college team’s brand. Since ESPN offered no money, initially, the Southwest Conference…
Rule makers create rule breakers. Commercialism and professionalism are as old as college football itself. Commercialism entered the game in the 1880s during a Thanksgiving Day championship in New York. By 1920, 50,000-seat college stadiums were part of America’s landscape, coaches were hired, and young, talented boys not interested in a college education were recruited to…
TABLE OF CONTENTS to the History of recruiting infractions – 1900-1959 The NIl, NCAA Infractions: The Record No University Wants To Hold, CHRONOLOGY OF NCAA’s rules, infractions, and the recruiting process 1890’s thru 1930, CHRONOLOGY OF NCAA’s rules, infractions, and the recruiting process 1930 thru 1944, CHRONOLOGY OF NCAA’s rules, infractions, and the recruiting process 1945 thru the…
I try not to break the (NCAA) rules but merely test their elasticity.” Coach Bill Veeck For more than a century, the collective cult of many coaches and wealthy alums tested the limits of the NCAA recruiting rules with a wink. The SWC led in “winks.” The first era that Winkers ruled college sports was…
TABLE OF CONTENTS TO THE HISTORY OF RECRUITING INFRACTIONS – 1960-2020 The 1960’s- The 1970s, the prequel to flagrant NCAA rules violations in the 1980s- 1980s SWC Recruiting Violations run rampant- 1990’s REGULATING INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS – #5 2000s Infraction transitioning – Judging intangibles is where Coaches make the most recruiting mistakes – The Good Egg-…