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1) Are the football scholarships good for only one year at a time? What month do they get renewed for the next year? Are they ever not renewed? – Anonymous
Yes, they are sometimes not renewed, though that is typically an internal matter. They are renewed before July 1, but mainly that’s just a formality. Here are the rules:
Title:15.3.5.1 – Institutional Obligation.
The renewal of institutional financial aid based in any degree on athletics ability shall be made on or before July 1 prior to the academic year in which it is to be effective. The institution shall promptly notify in writing each student-athlete who received an award the previous academic year and who has eligibility remaining in the sport in which financial aid was awarded the previous academic year (under Bylaw 14.2) whether the grant has been renewed or not renewed for the ensuing academic year. Notification of financial aid renewals and non-renewals must come from the institution’s regular financial aid authority and not from the institution’s athletics department.
Title:15.3.2.4 – Hearing Opportunity.
The institution’s regular financial aid authority shall notify the student-athlete in writing of the opportunity for a hearing when institutional financial aid based in any degree on athletics ability is to be reduced or canceled during the period of the award, or is reduced or not renewed for the following academic year. The institution shall have established reasonable procedures for promptly hearing such a request and shall not delegate the responsibility for conducting the hearing to the university’s athletics department or its faculty athletics committee. The written notification of the opportunity for a hearing shall include a copy of the institution’s established policies and procedures for conducting the required hearing, including the deadline by which a student-athlete must request such a hearing.
2) Jon, do you think the financial failure of Green Zone in America has brought Matt Damon action films to an end or do you think they’ll try again with a marketable story line? – Anonymous
Umm, well, Mr. Ebert, I have full support for Matt Damon in action roles – the Bourne trilogy is fantastic – and I think The Green Zone was just a matter of poor marketing and general disinterest in the genre for the time being. The movie got good reviews, but besides the Hurt Locker, which I did NOT get all the fuss about, I can’t remember a particularly successful war movie over the last few years. Black Hawk Down maybe, but that was in 2001.
3) Have you considered posting up a little pic and bio like Brian Dohn had? – Anoonononon
Yeah, and I actually thought I had. I’ll take care of that in the next couple weeks.
4) Is there any plan to fix the comment delay? I don’t understand how this problem is still not fixed after 3 years. – Reformed Droog
Droog, my man, you really, REALLY care about the comment delay. I just called our main computer guy for you, and here is what he said: “What happens is you make the comment, and that’s the one weakness of the system. The pages are all static pages. Every time you build an entry, it builds all the index pages that have it. Any categories, tag pages, archive pages. When someone makes a comment, it rebuilds again. The entry, all the index pages, and the home page. Every time a comment is made, it puts in the queue all those rebuilds. Thirty rebuilds times thirty comments is 900 rebuilds. There’s no way to fix it, but usually control-R will reload the page and help the process. The comments are the annoying part of the system, but that’s how it works.”
5) Mr. Gold, what are your thoughts about Coach Neuheisel claiming that Coach Carroll left USC b/c he was frustrated defending mobile QBs and/or spread offenses? Thank you in advance. – Gilligan
I think it’s a bit of a copout. I think Pete Carroll left USC because he got a better job offer. Simple as that, really. Being questioned after a 9-4 season or a huge salary and almost total control in the NFL? Hmm.