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New Richmond AD Hardt recalls being wowed by his visit to cross-town rival VCU's basketball practice facility early in his new role with the Spiders, noting the Rams $25M facility puts them on "an un-level playing field right now." There is a $15M basketball practice facility in the works on the U of R campus and continued renovations to the Robins Center, which continues to house more than just the basketball practice/playing surface. Hardt: "Student-athletes are who we're here for. You really have to be tuned into that mindset and think about, 'OK, what do we need to bring to bear here that's not only functionally what we need but also has some wow to it. What is it that's going to impress in a positive way a recruit and their family?'" Other items on Hardt's to-do list include "beefing up the athletic leadership program, which promotes not only leadership but accountability among Spiders athletes." (link)
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The Washington WBB team was on a road trip to Washington State when Wazzu FB student-athlete Hilinski took his own life in January and Huskies student-athlete Moser says it "was a wake-up call for a lot of people." UW AD Cohen: "I didn’t sleep for a week just thinking about him. I’m a mother of two sons. Thinking about our student-athletes. Thinking about other students, knowing how big an issue mental health is on college campuses today. Athletes or not, it’s an epidemic. The numbers are staggering." Two weeks after Hilinski's death, Washington's athletic administration held an open discussion with all student-athletes to talk about mental health. More Cohen: "I think more than anything, I think what we all recognized was that awareness needs to continue. Awareness and creating cultures where kids can be vulnerable, coaches can be vulnerable and that we can all show our feelings and talk about things where we can feel safe, is the single-most important culture we can that we can create. I think what gets lost is because student-athletes entertain us and we have fun watching them is that they are students. Period. They have challenges like every other kid that’s 18-to-22. ... I think that we need to slow down and remember this is not about results. We are in the people development business in higher education. Our goal is to help kids develop all aspects of their life. ...It’s a massive deal and it’s not an athletic issue. This is a society issue for all kids that we’re raising right now and adults." (link)
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Austin Peay's Board of Trustees approved facility naming designations during last month's meeting, which means the baseball field at Raymond C. Hand Park will now be known as the Joe and Cathi Maynard Baseball Field, just as the softball field at Cheryl Holt Field, which will get new permanent seating and a new press box, will be called the Joe and Cathi Maynard Softball Stadium thanks to the Maynard's contributions to the Govs. Additionally, the center court at the beach volleyball facility will be named Caffee Family Court thanks do a donation from '10 alum and former APSU FB student-athlete Trent Caffee. (link)
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Ohio State officials are mum how former FB student-athlete Gonzalez is "using pictures and video from his playing days in advertising" for his Congressional campaign. If you're wondering why, given OSU's history of legal action against 'improper use' of their trademarks, Cleveland.com's Tobias explains: "A university advertising policy spells out that generally, using university trademarks for promotional purposes without a licensing agreement is prohibited under state and federal law. However, an Ohio State official said the school policy is designed to address commercial use, as opposed to political speech, which could arguably be protected by the First Amendment." Tobias points out the stark contrast in rules involving political campaigns in the state of Michigan, which "prohibit use of [University of Michigan] marks in connection with political campaigns to mitigate any misunderstanding that we are endorsing the candidate making the use." (link)
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ESPN's Markazi goes in on Las Vegas as a hotbed for college hoops post-season action, despite the "cold shoulder" from the NCAA. Interestingly, hotel occupancy rates during the first weekend of the NCAA MBB Tourney have finished in the top two for the entire year in Vegas (98.8% & 98.5%). Las Vegas Events Prez Christenson: "If someday we get the NCAA's blessing to go ahead and do postseason events, we certainly aren't going to go after the first and second round because we're not going to top what we already have." Pac-12 Commish Scott walks through the backstory of how his league started to host its post-season tourney in Sin City, points to the Mountain West, WCC & WAC already doing so, which provided some comfort. Lots more, including another notable comment from Christenson, "Every other sports league has come around, and I'm confident the NCAA will too. I just don't understand why they keep fighting this." (link)
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Also Noticed: Here is video of Alabama FB HC Saban's reaction to Lebron James' assertion that Bama's "Shop Talk" show infringes on James' "The Shop." "I don't have a reaction to it. I think Lebron James is a great player. There has been at least 20 barber shop type things I've seen on TV, I didn't know anybody owned that. I didn't even know he had one. I'm sorry that anybody could be offended by something that we were just having fun with. I enjoyed it and we're going to continue to do it." James responds "The lawyers will figure it out." (link, link); From Law360: "The Big Ten Network's ability to air several live sporting events through one remote control room, as opposed to having to set up shop with a broadcasting van outside of each event, infringes a patent a Swedish media company says it owns over that broadcasting process..." (link); A proposal before the Ohio State Board of Trustees would drop student ticket prices for MBB games next year to $9 for conference and non-conference games, which were priced at $13 and $12, respectively, this past season. (link); ESPN's Rovell: "Little Caesars says they gave away more than 1 million lunch combos yesterday in honor of UMBC’s win over Virginia (#16 over #1), an estimated cost of $4.3M, according to @Bill_Shea19. Brand received more than $28M in exposure, according to @ApexMGAnalytics." (link); Kentucky Baseball set a single-game attendance record of 4,800 yesterday when Louisville came to town. (link); Campbell student Barron is still enrolled in the school but no longer a member of the baseball team after his arrest late last month on counts of corruption of a minor. (link); Kansas State MBB student-athlete Wainright was arrested yesterday in Kansas City and charged with fleeing and eluding & obstruction, both felony charges. KSU AD Taylor: "We are aware of Amaad’s situation, and due to the seriousness of the charges he has been indefinitely suspended from our men’s basketball team per athletic department policy. We take matters such as these very seriously and will re-evaluate his status as we learn more information." (link)
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Ashridge Business School faculty member Reynolds and London Business School's Senior Executive Programme Director Lewis reveal for the Harvard Business Review "The Two Traits of the Best Problem-Solving Teams" by answering the question of "how do you establish and maintain psychological safety with a cognitively diverse group?" Helpful to look at the quadrant chart, here, which reveals that "adaptability correlated very highly with high levels of both cognitive diversity and psychological safety. We called these organizations 'generative,' and labelled the worse-performing organizations oppositional (high diversity, low safety), uniform (low diversity, high safety), and defensive (low in both)." The "generative" quadrant contains behaviors associated with learning, experimenting and confidence, but not control and constraint. Conclusion: "We choose our behavior. We need to be more curious, inquiring, experimental and nurturing. We need to stop being hierarchical, directive, controlling, and conforming. ... How people choose to behave determines the quality of interaction and the emergent culture. Leaders need to consider not only how they will act, but as importantly, how they will not act." ( link)
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