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Good lord, I forgot how far Kordell threw that damn ball. something like 72 yards in the air...

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On Monday afternoon, colleague Jeff Goodman reported that former Miami Hurricanes and current Missouri basketball coach Frank Haith is expected to be charged with unethical conduct and failure to promote an atmosphere of compliance as related to the NCAA's investigation into the Nevin Shapiro scandal. Another active coach who is expected to be informed of hefty allegations from the NCAA investigation when the Notice of Allegations is delivered, a source told CBSSports.com, is former UM assistant Clint Hurtt, the current Louisville defensive line coach/associate head coach and recruiting coordinator for the Cardinals.

"They are pretty much throwing everything at him," the source said of Hurtt. "They have him on essentially everything that was brought to the attention of the NCAA, some of which has been publicly known because of (Shapiro) but there are some other things that did not involve Shapiro that they're charging him with."

The source added that after the NCAA began investigating Shapiro's claims, student-athletes detailed other violations allegedly committed by Hurtt and Aubrey Hill, another former UM assistant who had resigned from Florida weeks before the start of the 2012 season. The coaches are expected to be cited for "unethical conduct," better known in NCAA circles as a violation of Bylaw 10.1, said the source. Among the charges the NCAA will allege against the former UM football assistants are impermissible transportation, impermissible lodging as well as impermissible benefits, the source said.

Hurtt, in his third season at Louisville, has been integral in coach Charlie Strong's re-building of the Cardinals program. In 2011, Hurtt was even hailed by ESPN.com as its National Recruiter of the Year for his role in helping Louisville land standout quarterback Teddy Bridgewater, among others.

Goodman also reported from another source that the three assistants previously on Haith's staff -- Jake Morton, Jorge Fernandez and Michael Schwartz -- each will receive unethical conduct charges. Morton is currently at Western Kentucky, Fernandez left Marshall after last season and Schwartz is on the Fresno State staff.

Those involved in the case will have up to 90 days to respond in writing before a hearing in front of the Committee on Infractions, which likely will be held in mid-June. A decision on the penalties will be handed down to Haith, his staff and those involved in the football aspect of the investigation anywhere from 4-6 months after the hearing. The notice of allegations was expected to be released as early as Tuesday, but a source told CBSSports.com that it could be withheld for another week or two possibly because of procedural questions.

The investigation began nearly two years ago after Shapiro, who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for a $930 million Ponzi scheme, told Yahoo Sports that he gave thousands of impermissible benefits, primarily to football players, from 2002 to 2010.

[iam416]

http://www.awfulannouncing.com/2013/january/news-corp-launching-fox-sports-1-and-2.html

FOX will come after the B10 with everything they have. Believe that. Expansion a quasi-war between ESPN and FOX, IMO.

[Dr. Strangelove]

Very, very interesting. Let the bidding begin

[entropy]

This will bankrupt more than a few schools if interpreted by the courts the way they did Title IX.

Philip Elliott

Associated Press

Published: 25 January 2013 07:18 AM

WASHINGTON — Breaking new ground, the U.S. Education Department is telling schools they must include students with disabilities in sports programs or provide equal alternative options. The directive, reminiscent of the Title IX expansion of athletic opportunities for women, could bring sweeping changes to school budgets and locker rooms for years to come.

Schools would be required to make “reasonable modifications” for students with disabilities or create parallel athletic programs that have comparable standing as mainstream programs.

“Sports can provide invaluable lessons in discipline, selflessness, passion and courage, and this guidance will help schools ensure that students with disabilities have an equal opportunity to benefit from the life lessons they can learn on the playing field or on the court,” Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in a statement announcing the new guidance.

Federal laws, including the 1973 Rehabilitation Act and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, require states to provide a free public education to all students and bans schools that receive federal funds from discriminating against students with disabilities. Going further, the new directive from the Education Department’s civil rights division explicitly tells schools and colleges that access to interscholastic, intramural and intercollegiate athletics is a right.

“This is a landmark moment for students with disabilities. This will do for students with disabilities what Title IX did for women,” said Terri Lakowski, who led a coalition pushing for the changes for a decade.

Education Department officials emphasized they did not intend to change sports’ traditions dramatically or guarantee students with disabilities a spot on competitive teams. Instead, they insisted schools cannot exclude students based on their disabilities if they can keep up with their classmates.

“It’s not about changing the nature of the game or the athletic activity,” said Seth Galanter, the acting assistant secretary for civil rights at the Education Department.

It’s not clear whether the new guidelines will spark a sudden increase in sports participation. There was a big increase in female participation in sports after Title IX guidance instructed schools to treat female athletics on par with male teams. That led many schools to cut some men’s teams, arguing that it was necessary to be able to pay for women’s teams.

There is no deadline for schools to comply with the new directive.

But activists cheered the changes.

“This is historic,” said Bev Vaughn, the executive director of the American Association of Adapted Sports Programs, a nonprofit group that works with schools to set up sports programs for students with disabilities. “It’s going to open up a whole new door of opportunity to our nation’s schoolchildren with disabilities.”

‘Positive outcomes’

A Government Accountability Office study in 2010 found that students with disabilities participated in athletics at consistently lower rates than those without. The study also suggested the benefits of exercise among children with disabilities may be even important because they are at greater risk of being sedentary.

“We know that participation in extracurricular activities can lead to a host of really good, positive outcomes both inside and outside of the classroom,” said Kareem Dale, a White House official who guides the administration’s policies for disabled Americans.

Dale, who is blind, wrestled as a high school student in Chicago alongside students who had full vision.

“I was able to wrestle mainly because there was a good accommodation to allow me to have equal access and opportunity,” Dale said, describing modified rules that required his competitors to keep in physical contact with him during matches.

Those types of accommodations could be a model for schools and colleges now looking to incorporate students with disabilities onto sports teams. For instance, track and field officials could use a visual cue for a deaf runner to begin a race.

Although the letter is directed to elementary and secondary schools and the department hasn’t provided comparable guidance to colleges, some of the principles in the letter will be read closely by administrators in higher education, said Scott Lissner, the Americans with Disabilities coordinator at Ohio State University and president of the Association on Higher Education and Disability.

“The logic that’s in there applies us to us as well as it does to K-12, for the most part,” Lissner said.
New guidance

Increasingly, those with disabilities are finding spots on their schools’ teams.

“I heard about some of the other people who joined their track teams in other states. I wanted to try to do that,” said 15-year-old Casey Followay, who competes on his Ohio high school track team in a racing wheelchair.

Current rules require Followay to race on his own, without competitors running alongside him. He said he hopes the Education Department guidance will change that and he can compete against runners.

“It’s going to give me the chance to compete against kids at my level,” he said.

Philip Elliott,

The Associated Press

[Wild Hoss]

Can't wait for the wheelchair-bound RB.

[THE_WIZARD_]

The rule will be you can't hit the guy in the wheelchair until he is 10 yards downfield.

[*JD*]

The wheelchair the SEC (and The ohio) will be offering to recruits:

[Paul L]

That's great; are those 22"s? The XBox is a nice touch as well.

[Wild Hoss]

The rule will be you can't hit the guy in the wheelchair until he is 10 yards downfield.

Should be an easy adjustment for us, since that is how Bo's run defense works anyway. Only difference is the wheelchair.

[iam416]

Not overly surprising, but the best OSU source for expansion says Virginia is a done deal. And away we go. Stage 2 of the current operation.

[Wild Hoss]

UVA should have been part of Phase One. Deep pockets, big market. Maybe we could tell Rutgers we changed our mind....

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WR Quincy Adeboyejo commits to Ole Miss 3 hours into his visit yesterday.

Nah, there's nothing going on in the SEC...

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Ole Miss 'takes care' of its players.

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It was widely known he was a TT lock