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From a Wall Street Journal story spun out of the Philadelphia Eagles preferring to draft college graduates under Chip Kelly:The trends over the last five drafts are startling. Studies show that teams who select players who spent five years in college—and thus almost always have a degree—win big. Of the three teams with the most fifth-year seniors drafted, two of them met in February's Super Bowl: the Seattle Seahawks and Denver Broncos. The Jacksonville Jaguars, who went 4-12, took the fewest.
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Football is inherently dangerous. Turns out football stadiums can be dangerous as well.In addition to the $60 million high school stadium in Texas that will be closed this fall because it has been deemed unsafe (LINK), the Austin Peay football stadium in Tennessee has had a 40-foot deep sinkhole take out one end zone. (LINK).
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NJ.com has a story about the end of Gary Walters' über-successful tenure as athletic director at Princeton. (LINK)Walters, by the way, was the Dartmouth men's basketball coach from 1975-76 through 1978-79, going 44-60 overall and 21-35 in Ivy League play.
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The Pac-12 has proposed a 10-point reform platform to reform college athletics. From a Sporting News column (LINK):Some of these proposals would be significant, even radical if one conference adopted them. But no less radical than the Ivy League's refusal to award athletic scholarships or allow athletes to redshirt.Green Alert Take: You may notice if you click through that there is nothing in the platform about Pac-12 football teams "just watching" in the postseason. Some things are worth considering but not things that are patently wrong and unfair.
