Academic All-America Football Team

 

written by STEVE ULRICH your must-read briefing on what's driving the day in NCAA Division III >> Good Day Wednesday. On this day in 1891, the first game of basketball was played at what is now Springfield College. >> Thanks for reading D3Playbook. Please refer a friend or two. Tell them what they are missing.   Sign me up for D3Playbook TOP STORY 1. Academic All-America Football Team   Ripon College running back Cormac Madigan has been selected as the Academic All-America® Team Member of the Year award winner for Division III. Madigan led the Midwest Conference with 1,150 rushing and 1,491 all-purpose yards and scored 14 touchdowns, while earning the league's Elite 20 Award, which is presented to the student-athlete with the highest combined achievement in academics and athletics, this fall. Ten selections on the Academic All-America® Division III football teams boast a perfect 4.0 GPA in their undergraduate work or graduate school. The 25 honorees on the first team have an average GPA of 3.91, with the entire 50-man team combining for a collective 3.88 GPA. First Team QB-Liam Thompson, Wabash RB-Nicholas D'Ambrose, Chicago RB-Cormac Madigan, Ripon WR-Jeff Herbers, Central WR-Logan Tomlinson, Wesleyan TE-Emmett Turner, Johns Hopkins OL-Alex Bongers, UW-La Crosse OL-Alan Gorny, Johns Hopkins OL-Jeske Maples, North Central (Ill.) OL-Dustin Moss, Carnegie Mellon OL-Joe Mullin, Wabash K-Nicholas Bahamonde, Ithaca Dl-Ben Coyne, Carnegie Mellon DL-Alex Keith. Washington & Jefferson DL-Sante Parker Jr., Mary Hardin-Baylor DL-Bricker Thiel, John Carroll LB-Paul Calvetti, MIT LB-Robert Coury, Carnegie Mellon LB-Owen Grover, Wartburg DB-Ross Anderson, Johns Hopkins DB-Sam Bell, Wheaton DB-Caleb Brubaker, Salisbury DB-Matt Ulishney, Wooster P-Cody Harral, Hardin-Simmons ST-Michael Janis, Chicago >> Complete Team A MESSAGE FROM MORNING BREW   2.6 million people wake up to this newsletter every morning There's a reason over 2.6 million people start their day with Morning Brew - the daily email that delivers the latest news from Wall Street to Silicon Valley. Business news doesn't have to be dry and dense...make your mornings more enjoyable, for free. Check it out! Powered by Swapstack SWIMMING 2.   Eagles, Owls Top CSCAA Polls   photo by A.J. Mast It's Emory and Kenyon at Nos. 1-2 in the latest CSCAA Division III swimming rankings. The Eagle men sit atop the men's poll, while the Owl women head the women's poll. The two programs' opposite numbers are also ranked second in their respective polls. Men Emory Kenyon Chicago MIT New York U. Washington (Mo.) Johns Hopkins Denison Carnegie Mellon TCNJ >> Complete Poll Women Kenyon Emory Denison Chicago New York U. MIT Williams Tufts Pomona-Pitzer Johns Hopkins >> Complete Poll   NEWS 3.   Senator Does Not See Antitrust Exemption For NCAA by Daniel Libit, Sportico "Former college football coach and current U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) told Sportico Monday that he does not foresee a federal bill passing the next Congress that would include an antitrust exemption for the NCAA. Tuberville and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) have been working since the summer on crafting narrow legislation that would try to create and regulate a national standard for college athlete NIL rights." >> Why It Matters: "The NCAA’s desire to gain an antitrust exemption has intensified in recent years, as college sports’ governing body has been bombarded with a succession of class-action lawsuits, culminating with the Supreme Court’s unanimous 2021 decision in NCAA v. Alston. That ruling, which paved the way for college athletes to receive additional “education-related” benefits, also made explicit that the association does not have a “judicially ordained immunity from the terms of the Sherman Act,” as Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote." >> What They're Saying: “I knew Mark Emmett very well and spoke with him a lot,” said Tuberville, who coached football at Mississippi, Texas Tech, Auburn and Cincinnati. “The problem the NCAA had is they were so vulnerable with lawsuits and couldn’t afford it. It was money going out the door, again and again. We can help to some point, but we don’t want to go overboard on antitrust and all those things.” >> Continue Reading A MESSAGE FROM THE GIST   Not your dad's sports news  FEATURE 4.   Higher Ed Is A Land Of Dead-End Jobs   by Kevin R. McClure, Chronicle of Higher Education "My first full-time job in higher education was coordinating a global-studies living-learning program, and I loved it. That love propelled me to pour my time into the program, logging hours on nights and weekends. All those hours didn’t change a fundamental fact: It was a dead-end job. I was the third coordinator in five years, and my training consisted of a binder my predecessor left me. As the only full-time employee in an office on the outskirts of the organizational chart, I reported to an associate director who had no plans of leaving and whose experience and education placed that person several pay grades above me. It was early in 2009, and I was happy to have a job. But I couldn’t be expected to stand in the doorway of my career forever. At some point, I would want to grow and maybe even be considered for a promotion. Yet a career ladder was never discussed because there was none." >> The Bottom Line: "It’s hard to conclude anything other than that higher education has done a spectacularly bad job of managing talent. Campuses have evolved over centuries and dedicated resources to perfect the art and science of human development, while largely outsourcing or ignoring the professional growth and learning of their employees. Rather than draw upon their own experts to develop and retain workers, institutions let employees burn out, and then replace them." >> Reality Check: "A natural response to the call for more career pathways and professional development is to look to human-resources offices for fixes. The problem is that many of these offices are understaffed, forcing higher-education professionals to narrowly focus on technical details of employment." >> Worth Noting: "In a new era of worker empowerment, higher education needs to create better career pathways and step up as a world leader in harnessing the full potential of its employees. The good news is that colleges have everything they need to make it happen." >> Read More NEWS 5.   Lightning Round     Basketball Virginia Wesleyan's Omari Deveaux and Trine's Sidney Wagner were named the USBWA National Players of the Week    Soccer Former Stockton head men’s soccer coach Jeff Haines was honored by the NJAC Board of Athletic Administrators, as the board voted to name the NJAC Men’s Soccer Coach of the Year award after the national championship-winning mentor at its recent December meeting.   News Cabrini University laid off six full-time faculty, three of them tenured, as another step in its budget-cutting to help close a deficit. They represent 8.7% of Cabrini’s 69 full-time faculty. Of those laid off, two taught writing and narrative arts, two science, one math, and one visual and performing arts, a university spokesperson said. The Hodson Trust, Hood College's largest benefactor, is dissolving, the college announced this week. The trust, which has given to Hood regularly for nearly nine decades, has granted about $16 million to the school in the last five years alone.   Happy Birthday Cake and candles for Harlan Dodson, alum, Williams; Shirell Washington, student and track and field athlete, Virginia Wesleyan; Jay Daniels, head swimming coach, Puget Sound. Do you know someone celebrating a birthday soon? Drop us a line at D3Playbook@gmail.com. TRANSACTIONS 6.  Comings and Goings   AUSTIN - Tony Joe White named head football coach BIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN - Anthony Colucci named head football coach HENDRIX - Sandy Burks named director of sports information JOHN CARROLL - Brooke McQuinn named assistant women's lacrosse coach KING'S - Katy Higinbothom named head women's lacrosse coach MARTIN LUTHER - Jeff Schone stepped down as head women's soccer coach MASS-BOSTON - Marcelo Cunha named equipment coordinator MORAVIAN - Christine Fox named assistant director of sports information ST. SCHOLASTICA - Austin Sommerfeld named assistant athletic director for strategic communications   Thanks for starting your day with us.  What did you think of today's newsletter?  Please invite your friends to sign up for D3Playbook

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