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Kicker discusses rituals Redshirt senior’s mind goes blank when he lines up to kick football DAVID POLASKI CHIEF REPORTER | @DavidPolaski Scott Secor said he blacks out every time he lines up to kick a football. The process of his kicking motion comes naturally for Secor. It’s so natural that he doesn’t remember any of it when his number is called during a game. He said “absolutely nothing” goes through his mind during a kick. “My mind goes blank,” he said. “You don’t think about anything.” The redshirt senior spent SCOTT SECOR the first two seasons of his Ball State career handling Field Goals 19 kickoffs before taking over Made ATT 24 the role as placekicker Pct. 79.2 when Steven Schott gradu47 ated after the 2012 season. Long 60-62 Last season, Secor con- PATs Total Points 117 nected on 19-of-24 field goal attempts and was named to the All Mid-American Conference Third Team. Now ready for his final season, he said he doesn’t fear attempting 50-yarders into the wind. But he hates extra points, and said they are his least favorite kick. Out of 189 kickers in the Football Bowl Subdivision who kicked extra points in 2013, 85 did not miss one, according to ESPN.com. Secor missed just two, finishing the season at 96 percent. The extra point is regarded as the easiest kick in football, but Secor said because the posts are much closer to him, it’s easier to shank a kick and watch it deflect off the goal post. A significant part of getting the kick to go through the uprights starts with the holder.
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team of current and former Ball State students released a social media app this summer, combining aspects of Instagram and Tinder. Former student David Rogers came up with the idea, and Anthony Sparks, a senior communication major, created Noria Llc. Noria is a social media application that allows users to post and view photos. When users post photos they have the potential to be viewed by everyone, regardless of whether someone is “following” another person. Users can either swipe left or right on photos to teach the application which kinds of photos the user enjoys. The application adjusts so the user sees relevant photos in the future. “That’s kind of what every person’s dream is, for an application to just start to learn about you effortlessly,” Sparks said. See NORIA, page 5
See SECOR, page 6
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Photos show up in “pool” from Noria users. Swipe left to remove photos from “pool.” Swipe right for photos of interest. The app will learn which photos the user is likely to appreciate.
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Noria is a photo sharing app created by former student David Rogers and senior communication major Anthony Sparks. The app offers filters, editing and other features to share photos.
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To post photos, click on the water drop in the right hand corner. Choose or take a photo and tag with one word.
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Users can access their profile by also clicking on the water drop icon.
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When Jake Griffin’s brother was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, he felt a wave of relief. This relief didn’t come from his brother having a mental illness, but from the diagnosis that explained some of his brother’s bizarre behavior. Shawn Griffin experienced severe mood swings, and his relationship was straining with the family, Jake said. In addition, Jake said Shawn would stare at a television with no picture, gazing into the static. And with this information, his family and a psychiatrist could work with him to get his life back on track. Jake is the president and found-
er of the Ball State chapter of Active Minds, a national student group based in Washington, D.C., that is dedicated to bringing awareness of mental health issues to college campuses. “I was inspired to start Active Minds at Ball State ... because as a freshman last year, I realized there were really no clubs that addressed issues like this,” Jake said. Jake, a sophomore telecommunications major, said Ball State’s chapter of Active Minds was first recognized as an official school club during the summer. According to a 2013 report from the National College Health Association, about 30 percent of students said they felt depressed to the point that they could barely function at least once in the previous 12 months. They also stated about 25 percent of college students have been treated for or diagnosed with a mental illness in the past year. With these numbers, Jake said it’s important for students to be aware
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Colorado and Washington are gaining millions in tax revenue since legalizing taxes by 44 percent. This includes state sales taxes, excise taxes and varied local recreational marijuana. The two states began legal retail sales of the drug this year. sales taxes. Even with these high tax rates on the newly legal drug, they are still Colorado taxes retail marijuana by an estimated 30 percent, while Washington receiving millions in tax revenue. What is that tax money being used for?
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WHERE ARE THE TAXES GOING? Tax revenue has been proposed to be used mostly for the Dedicated Marijuana Fund. Washington is considering using the rest of the money for state costs.
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In short, it’s illegal. A person caught in possession of, selling or cultivating marijuana will be charged.
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Retail marijuana sales in Colorado began January. The tax revenue of total marijuana sales has reached millions of dollars each month since then. In millions Retail revenue Medical revenue
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New app simulates job interviews
‘Be Employed’ aims « One of my students told me I made the most app ever, but it’s a lot less awkward to help graduates awkward than asking someone for help. Interviews are just get hired, practice awkward, it’s a fact of life. » KARA BERG CHIEF REPORTER | knberg2@bsu.edu
After watching many students underprepare for job interviews after college, a Ball State faculty member created an app to help — even if it is awkward at first. Jonathan Huer, director of emerging technologies and media development, created Be Employed When You Graduate: The App, an application to help students practice for job interviews. “One of those things you just get better at with practice is interviews, but the only real way to practice is to basically do an interview,” Huer said. “If you are constantly practicing and getting no feedback other than ‘Oh I didn’t get the job,’ it’s just very difficult to get better.” The first version of the app was added to the iTunes store in early July. The idea for the app came from the book he also wrote, “Be Employed When You Graduate.” The app includes a feature to record a video response to questions the app verbally asks. Users can review the video afterwards to watch their answer and critique it. “It’s a painful process to watch yourself, but there’s many advantages,” Huer said. “It’s a really difficult experience, but forcing yourself through it a few times makes you better because it gives you the opportunity to reteach yourself.” Huer said this app makes it easier to practice since there is no need to find another person who is willing to help. “It’s much easier to do this than asking a roommate, professor or friend to do it, you can do it by yourself in the privacy of your own room,” he
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Director of Emerging Technologies and Media Development Jonathan Huer created “Be Employed When You Graduate: The App.” The application helps students practice for job interviews.
said. “One of my students told me I made the most awkward app ever, but it’s a lot less awkward than asking someone for help. Interviews are just awkward, it’s a fact of life.” Huer said as much as people don’t like watching themselves, they’ll get better at telling their story the more they do it. “It might be using ‘um’ too much. It might be using your hands, the way you sit, the way you present yourself. It might be the time you devote to each part of the story,” Huer said. “There’s a lot of non-verbal cues that happen in communication that you
just don’t get, you don’t really realize until you watch yourself doing them.” Huer said most of the time in interviews, the question will be about the applicant and what they are like. Frank Rowen, assistant director for student connections at the Career Center, said since no one knows how they look or sound, people have to rely on the image of themselves in their head to know. “You might have a tic or something that you don’t realize,” Rowen said. “You see what you’re presenting versus what you think you’re presenting.”
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“Be Employed When You Graduate: The App” helps students practice how to answer interview questions. The app was made to help students avoid being unprepared for interviews.
Rowen said another aspect to keep in mind when going for a job interview is to research beforehand. “People will prepare generally for the position but they won’t weed in facts about the company [in an interview],” he said. “And how much more impressive it is to be saying things that directly apply to what the company provides.”
Alec Hanley, a senior entrepreneurial management major, said the app would be very useful to get a practice run in before he went for the actual interview. “I could use it to practice before I go in for the real thing and put my position on the line,” Hanley said. “It could help gauge on what you’ll be asked so you don’t
get nervous about what you’ll be asked. There aren’t many ways to practice for this stuff.” Huer said many students undervalue the importance of practicing. “It’s very easy to say ‘Well those things don’t matter,’ but at the end of the day, the job market is incredibly competitive,” Huer said.
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SUMMER HITS AND MISSES
“FANCY”
IGGY AZALEA (FEAT. CHARLI XCX)
Australian ex-model Iggy Azalea was the clear breakout star of Summer 2014. “Fancy” has grossed more than $4.1 million and served as the summer’s largest crossover hit.
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The saxophone was prominent throughout the summer, but none more than on Grande’s “Problem.”
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“RUDE” MAGIC!
JESSIE J, ARIANA GRANDE, NICKI MINAJ
Bringing back reggae is a daunting task, yet Canadian band MAGIC! managed to do so, with this beach-ready tune.
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“BANG BANG”
The return of Jessie J was strong as she and fellow pop superstars produced a track that brings back memories of 2001’s “Lady Marmalade.”
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“SHE LOOKS SO PERFECT”
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CALVIN HARRIS
“LOVE RUNS OUT”
“STAY WITH ME” ONEREPUBLIC With frontman Ryan Tedder
SAM SMITH
British newcomer Smith raced out of the gate with the choir-backed “Stay With Me.”
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NICO & VINZ
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“MAGIC” COLDPLAY
Lead single “Magic” showcases an unnecessarily depressing and artistic style that doesn’t fit within the band’s wheelhouse.
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“SUMMER”
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Bringing back reggae is a daunting task, yet Canadian band MAGIC! manag The Aus- DJ Calvin Harris held his own tralian anti-boy band made it with another dance hit about clear they are not the new One nothing else but summer itself. Direction with this punk rock inspired ear worm.
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s the fall season draws near, the music of summer plays on into its final weeks. Following previous years’ smash hits like “California Gurls” or “Call Me Maybe,” artists put their best material forward in hopes of claiming the “song of the summer” title. The following is Summer 2014’s recap from the hits to the misses.
taking over lyrics, melody and production by himself, the band releases the perfect track to usher out its “Native” era.
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“CLASSIC” MKTO
Former Nickelodeon actors Malcolm Kelley and Tony Oller brought back the rap/ sung collaboration that has done well in past years.
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PHILLIP PHILLIPS
The problem with this track is the fact that it sounds exactly like Phillips’ former hit “Home.”
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“RIDE” SOMO
Songs about sex normally do well over the summer, but SoMo’s oddly direct approach and notso-family-friendly lyrics push the envelope a little too far.
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From Norway, the first song of many overseas imports, “Am I Wrong” delivers a pounding downbeat guitar line featured on many of the summer’s biggest hits.
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“MAPS” MAROON 5
Following the success of Maroon 5’s “Moves Like Jagger,” the band released “Maps,” a track entirely too busy and overproduced.
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14,000,000+ PLAYS “THIS IS HOW WE ROLL” (REMIX)
FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE (FEAT. JASON DERULO AND LUKE BRYAN): Though Florida Georgia Line remixed the former hit to market it to more audiences, Jason Derulo essentially ruins the track.
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“ALL ABOUT THAT BASS”
MEGHAN TRAINOR
For a track that preaches loving your size, it naturally shames skinny people and essentially throws the hate that larger people have been given right back at the thinner community.
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MAROON 5
Never has a band taken the quality sound and style of bands like Maroon 5 and made it into a whiny, obnoxious mess quite like Rixton.
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“ANACONDA”
NICKI MINAJ
Since Minaj has been forced to borrow the melody, hook and bridge of “Baby Got Back” on her new material, safely assume she has run out of ideas.
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“WIGGLE” JASON DERULO (FEAT. SNOOP DOGG) Derulo continues to work his new bad-boy angle on another track.
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“SIGHT OF THE SUN”
Nate Ruess and the band have fallen into a slump with this single.
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ACTIVE MINDS: New organization provides outlet for mental illness discussion | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 “Sometimes new experiences, like college, do cause students to feel much more stress than they usually deal with,” Payne said. “We want students to know that they can feel comfortable visiting the counseling center if they have an issue.” According to the Suicide Prevention Resource Center, the suicide rate of college students is seven out of every 100,000. It cites suicide as the second leading cause of death among college students. Payne said the recent death of Robin Williams can be used as a means to shed more light onto the mental health issue and the
issue of suicide. “Personally, I find [his death] very tragic,” Payne said. “But hopefully it will bring some meaning and a purpose, and hopefully bring more advocacy and treatment for people dealing with these things.” With a group like Active Minds on campus, Payne said she thinks Ball State is heading in the right direction on addressing mental health issues. The toughest challenge that Active Minds will face is combating language that is insensitive to mental health issues, Jake said. “Even though we’re a socially aware campus, you hear things like ‘she’s so bipolar.’ And I hear a suicide joke daily,” Jake said. “I want to
destroy that language. Some people are unaware of how hurtful that language can be.” Currently, the group has around 30 members, Jake said. Active Minds will meet at 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays at the L.A. Pittenger Student Center. The first meeting will occur on Aug. 27. For students seeking help, the Ball State Counseling Center is open 8 a.m.–5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Students can set up appointments by calling or visiting the center at Lucina Hall room 320 or calling 765-2851736. The center also provides afterhours emergency help at 765-7477330.
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Ball State’s Active Minds chapter began after Shawn Griffin was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. Shawn’s brother Jake Griffin, a sophomore telecommunications major, created the club to provide an outlet for discussion on mental illnesses.
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Elemental gets national attention Program teaches defense techniques for various situations |
KARA BERG CHIEF REPORTER knberg2@bsu.edu
Shouts of “Get away from me!” and “Stop!” filled the air of the Park Hall multipurpose room as eight girls, two “creepers” and two instructors practiced defense mechanisms against sexual assault during Elemental. Elemental is a sexual assault protection program designed to help students train to protect themselves and get out of potentially dangerous or harmful situations. Elemental started in 2011 when it was developed by
Mellisa Holtzman, Chad Menning and a team of 15 students as a Ball State immersive learning project. Since then, the program has grown and received national attention. In April, Holtzman was invited to the White House to attend a briefing on the first 90-day report for Obama’s sexual assault task force. “I had been in contact with the White House about Elemental, and they invited a select number of program representatives to come to the White House for that task force’s unveiling of their first report,” Holtzman said. The name comes from the techniques taught to the students to defend themselves based on the four elements: earth, water, fire and wind.
Each element has a different response to a given situation. The “fire” approach to being cornered in a parking garage, for example, would be to catch the aggressor as they block the door and elbow repeatedly into their exposed ribs, while the “water” approach is to use the attacker’s own momentum to spin them around and force them down. “I had been in contact with the White House about Elemental, and they invited a select number of program representatives to come to the White House for that task force’s unveiling of their first report,” Holtzman said. Menning said Elemental is tailored mainly to assaults where the victim knows the attacker. “We talk about how to keep someone from kissing you
when you don’t want them to, how to keep someone from taking your shirt off, how to get someone off of you when you’re on a bed,” Menning said. He said while assaults by strangers tend to be what students fear most, assaults by people the victim knows are actually much more common. Two third of assaults are committed by someone known to the victim and 38 percent of rapists are a friend or acquaintance of the victim, according to the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network. Menning said they cover what to do in scenarios between strangers, two friends, two people who just met at a party, long-term dating partners and hook-up
situations. But Holtzman said the way Elemental teaches students to deal with those scenarios is unlike many other sexual assault programs. “Most sexual assault programs are either selfdefense based or they’re educational programs,” Holtzman said. “But Elemental marries those two approaches. It’s an educational classroom
Rogers and Sparks began working toward fundraising and grabbed the attention of several of their peers, including alumnus Brandon Pope. “It was an idea that separates itself from the others,” said Pope, the company’s vice president of marketing and communications. “Instead of reinventing the wheel, it’s creating a square. It’s creating a whole new shape for social media from what I saw.” Noria LLC. originally planned on launching the app on June 1. However, after Apple determined the application needed a way to flag inappropriate material, the app wasn’t released until Aug. 8.
“That was the most frustrating part,” Sparks said. “Since we can’t code and we don’t have a developer account to talk to Apple, we have to depend on this creation company, who is also a startup and has other clients. So we were literally stuck and we couldn’t do anything.” Pope and Sparks said the app has received mixed reviews so far. Some people find the app pointless, while others see potential. “The way I see it, this is the very, very, very beginning of a social media application,” Pope said. “If you look at the beginning of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and
Pinterest, they weren’t the glossiest and they weren’t the prettiest. I think in terms of look and feel, we actually have a leg up on our competitors.” The company plans to make improvements to the application, including releasing it for the Android operating system. Sparks said they may look at creating other ideas through Noria LLC. in the future, but haven’t solidified anything yet. Pope and Sparks both said their experiences at Ball State played some role in the creation of the application. “I think that Ball State journalism encourages digital media participation,” Pope said.
“We’re always encouraged to think about digital media and social media and its impact, and put it into our stories and coverage.” Sparks said the people he met have helped him more than his education at Ball State. “It would be bad to say Ball State didn’t play a role because it put me in a network of people like Brandon and Michael, who thought the same way,” Sparks said. “We’re open minded. It would be hard to convince someone who wasn’t in college to spend money on a start-up because I don’t think that’s where their minds are at.”
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NORIA: Former, current students create new social media application | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 The idea grew from an unlikely source – a fashion blog for men, called Our Friend Tom. Sparks and Rogers wrote the blog together before deciding to change mediums. Their idea for the app changed from a focus on men’s fashion, to fashion for either gender and finally to photos in general. The two had to hire an outside source to create the app, since neither of them knew how to code. When a freelance coder fell through, the two turned to a creative agency that was just starting up. The app would cost them $32,000 to make.
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MAC, ESPN announce media deal
New 13-year TV agreement is largest in conference history | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Mid-American Conference Commissioner Jon Steinbrecher said the league’s new 13-year media rights agreement with ESPN provides long-term stability to the conference at uncertain time for college athletics. The MAC and ESPN officially announced the new deal, which runs through the 2026-27 season, on Tuesday. The contract reworks the final three years of the
current eight-year deal that MAC has with the network, and adds 10 years. The deal ensures a continuation of the weeknight football games in November that have become the conference’s niche — and gave birth to the Twitter hashtag #MACtion. The agreement gives ESPN exclusive rights to all MAC sporting events, and guarantees coverage of all football games on one of the ESPN television networks or its online network, ESPN3. There is also a sublicensing agreement in the deal that will allow ESPN to sell rights to MAC sporting events to other networks.
« This is certainly one piece ... to move forward in whatever this new world of collegiate athletics looks like. » JON STEINBRECHER, MAC Commissioner Financial terms were not revealed, though Steinbrecher said the deal puts the MAC in a competitive position with its peer FBS conferences — the American Athletic Conference, Mountain West, Sun Belt and Conference USA. The American Athletic Conference has the most lucrative media rights deal of those leagues, a seven-year agreement worth
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Redshirt senior kicker Scott Secor celebrates after winning against Central Michigan on Nov. 6, 2013, at Scheumann Stadium. Secor has been the kicker for Ball State since 2012.
SECOR: Kicker, holder develop chemistry, improve execution in summer training | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
Where the ball is placed on the ground and how the holder positions it can make or break a kick, Secor said. Last season, his holder was usually former quarterback Keith Wenning. This season, backup quarterback Kyle Kamman is the scheduled holder. Secor said after working together all summer, chemistry developed between them, and now they are on the same page. But what happens when the snap and hold are perfectly executed, and the kicker still misses? “You can’t think about it. Move on to the next kick, because the miss is already over,” Secor said. “If you sit there and dwell upon it, it’ll just mess you up mentally.” During practice, Secor often paces the sidelines, practicing kicks at tough angles to test his accuracy and power. Sometimes, Secor’s jersey number — one — reflects the solidarity of his position.
Kickers are often stereotyped as loners, as placekickers don’t require as much contact with different position groups as other players. During games, Secor said he tries to stay even-keeled while watching. “I’m not going crazy on the sidelines during big plays like everyone else, and you’ll see me by myself a lot, practicing my kicking,” Secor said. “I’m basically in my own little world.” Wide receiver Jordan Williams disagrees with the loner stereotype. He makes a point to consistently support Secor and engage him on the sideline. “Secor’s always right by me and I talk to him all the time,” Williams said. One of Secor’s favorite memories was against Northern Illinois last season. He hit a 43-yard field goal into 20 mph winds with less than a minute left before halftime. To him, it’s one of his proudest moments on the field. “It was probably the hardest
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kick I’ve ever made,” he said. “I was pretty pumped after it went through.” Secor claims to not have superstitions or rituals like some players, though he does wear the same pair of socks for every game and always puts his left shoe on first, even though he kicks with his right. Once the kick comes off his foot, he tries to not look up. He judges the noises the crowd makes to tell if the kick was good, but said he can usually tell if he made it the second he strikes the football. “Once I’m in my stance, my head goes down and everything disappears,” Secor said. “I get tunnel vision. I can’t hear a thing.”
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about $130 million. “We’re in a totally different area code from where we’ve been in the past,” Steinbrecher said. The MAC’s previous deal paid the conference about $1 million per season. “They deserve it. They’ve earned,” Burke Magnus, the ESPN vice president of programming and acquisitions, said of the raise.
The extra revenue comes at a good time for the MAC. The NCAA is in the process of giving the five wealthiest FBS conferences the ability to pass legislation on their own. The move will almost certainly lead to an increase in the value of athletic scholarships in those conferences to cover full cost of attendance. Steinbrecher has said MAC schools are preparing to follow suit. Also, the recent ruling in the O’Bannon federal court case could lead to schools compensating men’s basketball and football players for use of their names, images and likenesses. “We’ve been forecasting a little
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