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How LSU is using NIL to keep up in ever-evolving college football world

By curator March 15, 2025Articles, NCAA, NCAA Football, NIL, Pressed, Reports

BATON ROUGE, La. — Days before Thanksgiving, perhaps hours after quarterback recruit Bryce Underwood’s stunning decision to shift his commitment from LSU to Michigan, a 50-year-old private equity executive in San Francisco…

American Athletic Conference becomes first league to set ‘minimum standard’ revenue share of $10 million

By curator March 7, 2025Articles, FYI, NCAA, News, NIL, Pressed, Reports

The American Athletic Conference approved an initiative on Friday to establish a minimum standard of benefits that schools are required to share with athletes in the new revenue sharing era…

College Football Playoff format for next season still in limbo as commissioners punt on making seeding changes

By curator February 26, 2025Articles, FYI, NCAA, NCAA Football, News, Pressed, Reports

DALLAS — The format for this year’s College Football Playoff remains in limbo. At a meeting here Tuesday, playoff executives explored changes to the 2025 postseason but came to no…

Do college football coaches think new enforcement arm will work?

By curator February 25, 2025Articles, NCAA Football, News, Pressed, Reports

BATON ROUGE, La. — Brian Kelly entered last week’s joint meeting with SEC athletic directors admittedly skeptical of major college football’s new enforcement entity. He left convinced that it would…

Carson Beck, Hanna Cavinder reportedly have multiple cars stolen overnight in South Florida

By curator February 20, 2025NCAA, News, NIL, Pressed, Reports

A Mercedes and Lamborghini owned by former Georgia and current Miami quarterback Carson Beck was reportedly stolen in South Florida, according to Andy Slate of Fox Sports 640. Beck's girlfriend and…

Auburn’s Cade Belyeu hits 1st home run of the season hours after mother’s passing

By curator February 15, 2025Articles, NCAA Baseball, News, Odds and Ends, Pressed

Auburn outfielder Cade Belyeu lost his mother, Staci, on Friday following a battle with cancer. One of his first calls following her passing was to head baseball coach Butch Thompson,…

‘Creating havoc everywhere’ — House-NCAA settlement causing crunch for Olympic sports as roster limits come into focus

By curator January 31, 2025Articles, FYI, NCAA, News, NIL, Pressed, Reports

The new roster limits, imposed on schools that opt into the House settlement’s revenue-sharing concept, are expected to lead to the elimination of thousands of Division I roster spots, most…

New Title IX guidance from President Biden’s administration threatens to upend school rev-share plans in college sports

By curator January 17, 2025Articles, FYI, NCAA, News, NIL, Pressed, Reports, Revenue Sharing

The Department of Education issued long-awaited guidance related to Title IX: Revenue-sharing payments from schools to athletes must be “proportionately” distributed to men and women athletes, or institutions risk violating…

SEC to crack down on dubious injury timeouts: ‘Play football and stop the feigned injury nonsense’

By curator November 2, 2024Articles, FYI, NCAA Football, News, Pressed

SEC commissioner Greg Sankey would like teams in his conference to stop faking injuries. Sankey wrote a letter to the athletic directors and coaches of the 16 schools in the…

Historic House-NCAA settlement leaving hundreds of Olympic sport athletes in peril

By curator October 25, 2024Awards, News, NIL, Pressed

Hundreds of college prospects, many of them participating in Olympic sports, are in a precarious position as the signing date approaches. Schools have eliminated roster spots and, for some, scholarship…