Colleges

ACC spring meetings are underway, and with Monday's ruling in favor of the CSC on NIL deals, CFP playoff expansion, there's a lot to discuss. Also: Sponsorship fallout for more March Madness and CSC CEO Bryan Seeley on the Nebraska NIL ruling.

Monday brought with it some serendipity for the gathered reporters in Amelia Island.

NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournament expansion is now official, as the governing body finalized its plan last Thursday.

AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. — Spring meetings tend to be mixed as to whether anything actually gets accomplished, but considering the existential crises facing college sports these days, there was plenty of depth to conversations around the Ritz Carlton the last few days at the ACC’s annual gathering here.

Incoming Univ. of Wisconsin interim Chancellor Eric Wilcots on Tuesday named a “nine-member search committee” led by faculty athletics representative Lauren Bishop as UW expects to have a new AD “begin work this summer.” The school also brought on CSA Search and Consulting to “assist with the proces...

SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey on Monday “stood firm” behind a 16-team CFP expansion, “indicating that a disagreement with the Big Ten -- which backs doubling the current bracket to 24 teams -- is lingering deep into the offseason,” according to Maura Carey of the AP. Sankey said, “We’re open to the c...

Notre Dame AD Pete Bevacqua called the school’s relationship with the ACC “very good and healthy” months after a dispute over the conference backing Miami over ND for the CFP, according to David Hale of ESPN.com. Bevacqua said that he has had “numerous conversations” with ACC Commissioner Jim Philli...

Eighteen Univ. of Nebraska football players “have lost their arbitration case” against the College Sports Commission, which denied the approval of $1M in NIL deals through Nebraska’s multimedia partner, Playfly Sports. The arbitrator “agreed that Playfly -- authorized by the NU Board of Regents to d...

Fox Sports is funding the creation of the Fandom and Social Connection Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy. This latest effort builds on the network’s strategy to better understand fandom not only as a driver of engagement, but as a force s...

USC and Notre Dame are “in active discussions to resume play” six months after one of college football’s most storied rivalries stalled. It is “not clear yet when the rivalry series will return or what the terms will be.” A source said that Notre Dame is “now willing to discuss playing the game earl...