Student-athlete rights were discussed on the NCAA’s official blog last week as Double-A Zone readers offered their opinions about Eric Walsky, an ice hockey player at the University of Alaska Anchorage.

After head coach John Hill left the program to become an assistant at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Walsky announced his intent to transfer. Alaska Anchorage has refused to release Walsky to Minnesota, where he could continue to play under Hill. The school has agreed to release him to all of the other Division I programs, however.

While some bloggers believed that a student-athlete should have the right to transfer wherever he or she likes, others were steadfast in their belief that Alaska Anchorage made the right decision in refusing to release Walsky to Minnesota.

The Double-A Zone also addressed the allegations of academic fraud at Auburn. Some bloggers believed the issue is widespread across Division I-A athletics, and many of them think it all relates to the money generated by those major football programs.

Division I student-athletes weighed in on a couple of issues, including the summer Student-Athlete Advisory Committee meeting in Dallas and whether student-athletes should be compensated beyond their scholarships.

Recent Double-A Zone discussion also included the proliferation of social online networks such as Facebook and MySpace and the impact they have on student-athletes.

Washington University in St. Louis women’s volleyball coach Rich Luenemann wrote a post in Coaches’ Corner about the eight-time Division III national champions and how his student-athletes have managed to find continued success while attending one of the nation’s most rigorous academic institutions.

The NCAA’s official blog is at www.doubleazone.com. To submit a guest post, contact Josh Centor (jcentor@ncaa.org).