Big Ten athletic contracts value team performance more than academic success

During the fall semester of my junior year, I was The Lantern's investigative reporter. The biggest project I worked on was an analysis of the athletic and academic incentives coaches in the Big Ten Conference have in their contracts. Using public-records requests, I examined 234 contracts and found that nearly two out of every three coaches do not have academic performance incentives. The full story, which won the SPJ Mark of Excellence Award for best college sports writing