From the Athletic Business Journal:

http://www.athleticbusiness.com/college/...iable.html

(01-13-2016 08:50 AM)Tiki Owl Wrote:  From the Athletic Business Journal:

http://www.athleticbusiness.com/college/...iable.html

Interesting that the author is not identified in the article.

Dan Thomasson of the Naples Daily News wrote the commentary piece.

(01-13-2016 09:58 AM)InterestedX Wrote:  Dan Thomasson of the Naples Daily News wrote the commentary piece.

Do you know where his 3 kids play?

Thomasson went to IU a hundred years ago (not quite) and was a bigwig in the Scripps Howard organization.

http://indianajournalismhof.org/1997/01/...thomasson/

But the NCAA is not interested in morals just money. The problem that they will be facing is that as the money goes to fewer schools, then the left out schools might lose interest and their fans stop watching. That is the problem with creating a few power schools as a mini-NFL because the NFL will always do a better job of football alone. The colleges have tradition to sell instead of just football. BTW, I think Byers spent his freshman year at Rice before WW2 before he went elsewhere. He was able to keep the money and attention from becoming too concentrated when he was in charge, but later court decisions loosened the NCAAs power over football television money.

(01-13-2016 08:50 AM)Tiki Owl Wrote:  From the Athletic Business Journal:

http://www.athleticbusiness.com/college/...iable.html

(01-14-2016 04:57 PM)75src Wrote:  BTW, I think Byers spent his freshman year at Rice before WW2 before he went elsewhere.

This is correct.

His Washington Post obituary said, "At Rice University in Houston, Mr. Byers failed to make the football team. He then attended the University of Iowa, leaving several credits short of a degree."

He was a freshman in Fall 1939, as listed in Rice's 1940 General Announcements (p. 216).

It is an interesting look at Rice in 1940. The majority of students listed Houston as their home town with almost everyone else from Texas. Byers from Kansas City was one of the few out of state students. It would be interesting to see other General Announcements.

(01-14-2016 10:51 PM)Almadenmike Wrote:  

(01-14-2016 04:57 PM)75src Wrote:  BTW, I think Byers spent his freshman year at Rice before WW2 before he went elsewhere.

This is correct.

His Washington Post obituary said, "At Rice University in Houston, Mr. Byers failed to make the football team. He then attended the University of Iowa, leaving several credits short of a degree."

He was a freshman in Fall 1939, as listed in Rice's 1940 General Announcements (p. 216).

(01-15-2016 03:53 PM)75src Wrote:  It would be interesting to see other General Announcements.

It's easy to do. You can find many of those documents/books by entering the following (between but not including the square brackets) into a Google search field:

["general announcements" site:scholarship.rice.edu]

(01-15-2016 03:53 PM)75src Wrote:  It is an interesting look at Rice in 1940. The majority of students listed Houston as their home town with almost everyone else from Texas. Byers from Kansas City was one of the few out of state students. It would be interesting to see other General Announcements.

There's good reason for this. The institute's charter named it "for the benefit of the people of the City of Houston," and I think it also mentioned the state. This is one of the reason's why Fondren is open to the public as opposed a school like Stanford that only allows students/faculty/alumni in the libraries. One of the ways that this clause was originally interpreted was that only Houstonians should be admitted to Rice. This was eased early on, I think driven by football, but the institute/university still remained Texas-focused until quite recently.