Colleges

A bipartisan group of lawmakers from the U.S. House of Representatives announced yesterday that they have introduced a bill that “would establish a set of national rules for college sports,” according to Steve Berkowitz of USA TODAY. The bill “follows the basic contours of a discussion draft circula...

New Georgia Tech AD Ryan Alpert sees “room for growth, innovation and, ultimately, success” for the program, according to Chad Bishop of the ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION. Alpert: “We have this incredible media market in Atlanta, we’ve got businesses when it comes to (supporting) Real NIL and NIL Go....

NCAA SVP/Basketball Dan Gavitt in a statement today said that “no decision has been made” on men’s and women’s basketball tournament expansion after it was “‘discussed at length’ this week during meetings” for the NCAA D-I men’s and women’s basketball committees. Gavitt added that expanding the fiel...

Ole Miss AD Keith Carter is “getting a contract extension through 2029.” Carter was earning $1.1M annually in “base pay under the terms of his previous state and Ole Miss Athletic Foundation contracts.” Under Carter, Ole Miss completed a $45M “renovation of the Olivia and Archie Manning Athletics Pe...

The College Sports Commission in a letter to schools sent on Thursday said that it “had rejected” NIL deals “between players and donor-backed collectives formed over the past several years to funnel money to athletes or their schools,” according to Eddie Pells of AP. The letter to D-I ADs said that ...

In the summer of 2021, three letters upended college athletics: NIL. What began as the notion that athletes were entitled to compensation for their school’s use of the athlete’s name, image and likeness assumed a formal structure under the court’s decision in House v. NCAA that could see major unive...

Univ. of Kansas’ David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium renovation process is “starting to look much closer to a finished product” in time for football season, according to Henry Greenstein of the LAWERENCE JOURNAL-WORLD. There are “not many significant aspects” of the new Booth that remain incomplete,...

The U.S. House of Representatives is “rolling out bipartisan legislation” later today “that will mark a major shift in the world of college sports, particularly the compensation of student athletes,” according to Elizabeth Elkind of FOXNEWS.com. The bill “would codify the right for student athletes ...

UCF AD Terry Mohajir is “receptive to the ideas” of the school’s football team playing the Univ. of Houston in a “space-themed game,” according to Joseph Duarte of the HOUSTON CHRONICLE. Mohajir said that he “had conversations in the past” with former UH AD Chris Pezman about “some type of ‘Space Cu...

Univ. of Minnesota AD Mark Coyle yesterday presented a budget to the school’s Board of Regents “that projects” a $8.75M deficit following approval of the House settlement, according to Chip Scoggins of the MINNESOTA STAR TRIBUNE. With the exception of the COVID-19 pandemic years, Coyle has “operated...