Colleges

A presidential committee is holding “conversations about the future” of the CFP, with “support for a 24-team playoff,” according to Ross Dellenger of YAHOO SPORTS. The 14-person presidential “media” committee -- its existence supported by the White House -- identified a “variety of ways that the ind...

Louisiana Tech and Conference USA have “reached a ‘settlement in principle’ that will get the ball rolling to allow” the school to join the Sun Belt as planned on July 1, according to Matt Belinson of the RUSTON DAILY LEADER. No formal signed and executed settlement agreement was reached by the fili...

The latest legal ruling in college sports weakens a key component of the House settlement's oversight of NIL. Also: A leadership void in the wake of Val Ackerman's Big East retirement, and college sports comments from Fox Sports CEO Eric Shanks from the CAA World Congress of Sports.

It was a busy week out in L.A. as dignitaries from around the sports world congregated for SBJ’s World Congress of Sports.

There aren’t too many people who’ve had the impact Val Ackerman has on college sports.

This week brought the most significant shift in how the House settlement might be applied moving forward when plaintiffs lawyers filed a motion to have apparel companies and third-party multimedia rights providers not be classified as “associated entities” by the College Sports Commission.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has “publicly questioned the ‘decision-making’” at the Univ. of Kentucky, “including the seven-figure gig” retiring AD Mitch Barnhart was recently given, according to Myron Medcalf of ESPN.com. Beshear’s “chastisement, rare for a sitting governor, comes at a turbulent junc...

Syracuse Athletics has partnered with third-party NIL collective One Orange Alliance in a deal that “allows individuals and businesses to make contributions to support SU’s teams and athletes’ NIL opportunities.” The collective will “expand on Syracuse’s previous sole NIL collective, SU Football NIL...

Plaintiff attorneys in the House case have filed a motion asking the magistrate judge to declare that school multi-media rights partners “be exempt” from the College Sports Commission’s “more rigorous NIL enforcement, as well as third-party brands, such as apparel companies,” according to Yahoo Spor...

Univ. of Memphis AD Ed Scott said the school must “monetize” Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium following the stadium’s $225M-plus renovation project, according to Jason Munz of the Memphis COMMERCIAL APPEAL. Scott said, “It’s the largest asset that we have as the Memphis Athletics Foundation -- the large...