Webinar #6 FOLLOW-UP QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS – Keeping Everything We Love About Collegiate Sport While Fixing Its Failed Governance Structure

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Webinar #6 FOLLOW-UP QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS – Keeping Everything We Love About Collegiate Sport While Fixing Its Failed Governance Structure

A regular feature of our webinar series is “Follow-Up Notes/Q&As” which provides a link to the recorded webinar, answers to questions from the audience that panelists did not have the time to address (prepared by Drake Group experts), and information on previous and next webinars. This edition covers audience questions related to panelists’ discussion of … Read more

Webinar #6 – Fixing the Failed Collegiate Athletics Governance Structure

The NCAA has been frozen with indecision since the June U.S. Supreme Court decision limiting its “amateur status” rules.  Fearful of legal responsibility, the organization is pursuing a constitutional convention restructure that reeks of throwing its conference and institutional members under the litigation bus.  College athletics has lost its way because of a failure of governance – … Read more

REGISTER NOW FOR WEBINAR #4 “THE TRANSGENDER ATHLETE IN GIRLS’ AND WOMEN’S SPORT”

Former Olympians Martina Navratilova, Nancy Hogshead Makar, and Donna de Varona lead a a blue-ribbon slate of researchers, lawyers, athletes, gender equity experts and sports administrators to address the topic of transgender athletes in girls’ and women’s interscholastic, intercollegiate and open Olympic and club sports. Panelists will explore whether eligibility for participation should be based … Read more

NILs and Title IX: Educational Institutions Must Fix their Promotion, Publicity, and Recruiting Inequities Critical to the NIL Monetization Success of College Female Athletes and Must Not Use Third Parties to Evade Their Title IX Obligations

Universities must not only focus on their own Title IX compliance obligations to provide male and female athletes with equal participation opportunities, athletics scholarship support, and equal treatment and benefits (including promotion, publicity, and recruiting), they must also require the third parties they establish, control, assist, or benefit from — conferences, national governing organizations, businesses, … Read more

WEBINAR #2 – FOLLOW-UP QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Millionaires or Minimum Wage? Current and Former College Athletes Speak on College Athlete Compensation (August 26, 2021)

A regular feature of The Drake Group Webinar Series — Critical Issues in Collegiate Athletics is “Follow-Up Questions and Answers” which provides answers to questions from the audience that panelists did not have the time to address. See Webinar #2 Q&As Here (PDF) Click Here for full recording of the Webinar

A Continuing Disgrace: Intercollegiate Athletics Race Issues

The Drake Group believes that the commercialization of intercollegiate athletic programs has not only challenged the academic integrity of higher education but resulted in a predominantly White community of higher education administrators, athletic department administrators, coaches, and staff turning a blind eye to the racism underlying the economic, education and other forms of exploitation harming … Read more