Jarrod Barnes
JARROD BARNES is a native of Columbus, Ohio, currently serving as the Managing Director of the Minority Entrepreneurship Institute, a seed-stage impact investing fund that invests in minority founders across the midwest and southeast. Jarrod began his career working in collegiate and professional sports as a college football coach at the Ohio State University and […]
Richard Karcher
Richard T. Karcher, J.D. is an Associate Professor in the Sport Management Program at Eastern Michigan University where he teaches sport governance and regulation, sport ethics, NCAA compliance, international sport, and introduction to research in sport management. He was appointed as the university’s Faculty Athletics Representative in February of 2022. Professor Karcher is also a […]
UNITED STATES CONGRESS – COLLEGE ATHLETICS AND OLYMPIC SPORTS BILLS (Updated as of February 1, 2022)
The following listing of bills filed during the 116th (2019-20) and 117th (2021-2022) sessions of Congress represent the most likely bills to be considered during the 117th Congress. We anticipate that the 116th Congress bills listed are those most likely to be refiled in 2022 prior to the end of the session. SEE BILLS HERE
Follow Up Notes: Webinar #7 – Racial Exploitation in College Sports: A Continuing Disgrace
WEBINAR #7 FOLLOW-UP NOTES AND Q&As-Racial Exploitation in College Sports
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 […]
Webinar #5 FOLLOW-UP QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS – Title IX and the NIL Marketplace
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 […]
FOLLOW-UP NOTES WEBINAR #4: The Transgender Athlete in Girls and Women’s Sports
Following each Drake “Critical Issues in Collegiate Athletics” webinar, Drake publishes answers to all the questions that the webinar audience raised that, due to time constraints, panelists were unable to answer. This webinar featured Juniper Eastwood, first NCAA Division I openly transgender athlete competing on a women’s team; Donna deVarona, two-time Olympic gold medalist swimmer, […]
WEBINAR #3 – FOLLOW-UP QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS The Silent Struggle: Experts Speak on College Athletes Mental Health (September 30, 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. Click Here for full recording of the Webinar See Webinar #3 Q&As Here (PDF)
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 […]
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, […]