The No Show-Cause Show

Send us Fan Mail On today's show we focus on the wise words of the Wu Tang Clan: Cash rules everything around us. The NFL Draft was this past weekend, how is the cash infusion to the players in the college game affecting how the draft looks? Cash is the driving decision from a power 4 school dropping it's tennis program, and mainly from a standpoint of choosing not to fund it. ( free new...

Send us Fan Mail JUST got the episode in before midnight, a Thursday episode it shall be. Today we talk about reaction to the Heineke case we discussed on Monday's episode and why some college media are wrong to treat it like just another athlete using the courts to game the system. We also talk about the national champions in equestrian and the latest Learfield Cup Standings. Playoff expansi...

Send us Fan Mail Monday's show tackles some of the complaints about modern college sports head on. Right on the heels of our attempt for positivity on the last episode, we discuss the backlash to eligibility proposals, and an article about the Michigan head coach not fully enjoying his national championship win . It's easy to fall into the college sports are bad because of modern times,...

Send us Fan Mail A yin and yang of college sports stories today:  We go back to an NCAA Championship that was won last weekend, amidst the hockey championship that did record numbers. The UConn AD has some thoughts on the program's place in being profitable in modern college sports while leading with basketball. The NCAA forges ahead again with some pre-enrollment rules for eligibility. Iowa...

Send us Fan Mail College Sports put a few more championships in the books to close out the winter sports season, and now the spring championships take the focus to close out the academic year. And what a year it has been! Denver (the Pionneers) wins the Frozen Four on the men's side, denying Wisconsin and the Big Ten. Additionally, Wisconsin loses its AD...to the Big Ten Conference Office! We...

Send us Fan Mail In our latest installment of Show-Cause Conversations, we bring on our brother, John, to discuss the situation at NC State. The extremely unceremonious exit of Will Wade from Raleigh has sparked a lot of feelings about his manner of exit and where NC State now sits in the basketball landscape. We discuss the new hire for the Wolfpack, getting one of their own on board, and also th...

Send us Fan Mail On today's show we recap the title game from Monday night, discuss Michigan's gutsy effort and great season, UConn's worthy effort, and yes some of the officiating woes. That leads us into the Big Ten discussion; they've had some major success in the revenue sports lately, can we say it is officially a trend? Finally, we dive into why the NCAA is finally puttin...

Send us Fan Mail Another great (final) weekend of college hoops action. UCLA captures the women's title while the biggest media story was about another coach throwing a tantrum. A coach cites the compliance office in an interview in a joking manner, and of course we take the opportunity to examine the situation as if he was serious, and get educated ourselves in the process! Of course, we wil...

Send us Fan Mail An appropriate March Madness theme to this edition of Show-Cause Conversations. We welcome on Chad Lutkenhaus, number 11 in your programs number one in the ticket office for FGCU. Chad played for the Eagles right up to the Dunk City run in 2013 to the Sweet 16, and at which time he was working in the Athletic Department for the Ticket Office. He got to experience the rapid rise of...

Send us Fan Mail First show of April is here, Final Four is here amidst record numbers. We take a look at this weekend's games. There's a conference sponsoring women's flag football starting soon. The blind transfer penalty has been approved for football and all sports. Plus, two new coaches at LSU are giving some interesting quotes.

Send us Fan Mail An unforgettable Elite 8 game took place and it emphasizes why sports, and in particular college sports have the power to collectively lose our minds (in a good way). Meanwhile off the court, the CSC is at it again (in a bad way) as we examine why it is going after a mid four-figure deal in NIL Go.  A P4 president weighs in on making college sports "sustainable", and we...

Send us Fan Mail We start off today's episode with another reminder that you may not like how Texas Tech is doing things, but they are showing you how they are doing it, even while they try to change it. We have some "niche" NCAA championships that were won in recent weeks, and some in more traditional Olympic sports, we will run it all down, let me know who the College Fencing fans...

Send us Fan Mail Wellness, not underrated. We work through another show while we battle illness, but this tournament has too much going on to not recap what we've seen so far. We talk about the games and the state of the tournament from off the court and the many factors at play.

Send us Fan Mail We continue our series (3 times makes a series, right?) of Show-Cause Conversations with individuals talking about their ties to the college sports world. Today, a former collegiate teammate of mine, Adam Drake joins to share his experience as a NCAA athlete, how he came to join the team, go on to coach, and everything he learned from his experience on and off the water. There is...

Send us Fan Mail It's Tournament Time, the Brackets are set. First we discuss the absurdity of the Big Ten writing a letter asking the NCAA not to enforce a rule, then we get right into the brackets. For the most part, we think the committee did the job it was tasked with, but a few mis-seeds and the egregious Mizzou/St. Louis situation.  We go region by region and give our thoughts and then...

Send us Fan Mail Full throttle College Basketball coverage. The tickets punched, and the conference tournaments ongoing are covered. First we go through two cases in which D1 conferences and their soon-to-be former schools are embroiled in lawsuits. We then blow our top about the CSC, in particular its president and the failure by that organization to see what was coming and how they are complaini...

Send us Fan Mail Yours truly's voice is shot on this Monday. The congestion is making my voice even flatter than usual, but we push through. It's Championship Week after all. We start off the show with the non-actions to be taken after the big roundtable to save college sports last Friday, plus a few notable changes at the top of two namebrand athletic departments and universities. We re...

Send us Fan Mail In today's episode we get philosophical about the why of this show brought about by doing what all podcasters do- listen to other podcasts. We trace our start in college athletics rules analysis, why it matters using the example of one of the best coaches in college football and how he maximized rules knowledge to succeed. Why should anyone pay attention to the rules and how...

Send us Fan Mail It's officially March! A wonderful time of year for us college sports enthusiasts. We take a dive into the college basketball weekend and how teams faired in helping/hurting their cause. The top seeds certainly are looking strong.  We jump back to January when the NCAA added some more championships from their emerging sports and then entered in another one; are they really bo...

Send us Fan Mail On today's show we look at College Basketball, and make an interesting note about the WAB rankings. (Website we referenced is here ) After seemingly gaining momentum, the NCAA loses an eligibility case that defies not one but two of its rules. Army Football coach Jeff Monken weighs in on possibly moving the Army-Navy Football game, will that clear the way for CFP changes? And...

Send us Fan Mail Discussing Wins Above Bubble and Short Shorts in College Football. A Monday show with two weeks to go in the college basketball regular season. We take a look at the top 16 seed reveal and how the men's tourney committee in basketball is lapping the CFP committee in explaining their process. We of course check-in on the obligatory courtroom rulings in eligibility and discuss...

Send us Fan Mail Not just speaking of college sports wanting us to flip the entire gameboard over at 2 am, the more I think about college sports being akin to Monopoly, the more it makes sense. Especially in how we aim to cover it on the No Show-Cause Show. On today's episode, much like trying to attain money and resources with maybe not having them to being with, we look at a couple ventures...

Send us Fan Mail On today's show, we take a look at the weekend that was in College Basketball. Is Arizona in trouble? Is Iowa St back on track? How fair some of the bubble teams and a ejection-laden microcosm of a game in the Big East. Kansas St moves on from its coach after some volatile comments directed at his players, plus a possible rules violation mentioned in a press conference!  Trin...

Send us Fan Mail More like Bediak-NO? The Alabama circuit judge has ruled against Alabama Basketball's athlete that came back from the pros to play in 5 games. Some may say it was absurd to allow him to play in 5 games before this point, but the main point is that this ruling will hopefully help bring stability to college sports eligibility. On the actual court, we've had some great game...

Send us Fan Mail On today's show, more conference realignment talk. An FCS power is moving into the FBS, while others are still trying to get in the door. We also look at the wide field of contenders to make the Final Four in college basketball, and look back on the weekend action. Court storming once again enters the discourse.  Realignment info gathered from a variety of sources, but mostly...