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Two roads: Young, Bennett take different paths to CFP stage Alabama’s Bryce Young and Georgia’s Stetson Bennett both transferred in 2018. One got a lot more attention than the other. Already a celebrated quarterback prospect heading into his junior year of high school, Young made headlines in Southern California when he decided to attend powerhouse Mater Dei. There he would …
Report: Top N.C. basketball recruit Mikey Williams could make $2.6 million off NIL deals With his 5.5 million social media followers, his undeniable basketball talents and his tendency to go viral for just about anything, Mikey Williams was always in a good position to benefit from new NIL laws. But how much is the North Carolina prep star’s brand really …
College Leaders Urging NCAA to Enforce New NIL Guidelines, Or Else Athletic directors say schools with boosters who have struck deals with players who have not yet signed with schools should be sanctioned SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.—Inside the Hyatt Regency at Gainey Ranch, the lavish resort on the outskirts of Phoenix, dozens of the most powerful people in college sports milled about, …
Alabama OC Bill O’Brien: Transfer portal ‘similar to (NFL) free agency but without the rules’ Alabama football offensive coordinator Bill O’Brien took part in free agency plenty while he was in the NFL. Before coming to Tuscaloosa, O’Brien served as general manager and coach of the Houston Texans. He also spent five seasons as an assistant coach with the New …
College athletes are unpaid. What if injury ruins their chance of turning pro? It was founded in 1906 to improve player safety but resisting accountability for injuries has long been at the heart of the NCAA’s insistence that college athletes are amateurs. US college sports’ major governing body began using the term “student athlete” as a legal strategy when the …
ESPN: Alabama, Cincinnati and how the transfer portal shaped the College Football Playoff This is the way college football has worked. One minute, a wide receivers coach at Eastern Michigan is watching Jerome Ford rip off a 79-yard touchdown run in last year’s Peach Bowl between Cincinnati and Georgia. The next minute, that wide receivers coach is a running backs …
BusinessInsider.com: How college athletes are getting paid from brand sponsorships as NIL marketing takes off On July 1, after a decades-long fight, student-athletes across the country gained the right to make money from their names, images, and likenesses (NIL) thanks to a flurry of new state laws and an NCAA policy change. What happened next was a mad rush of …
SI.com: Matt Corral’s Knee Injury Places Opt-Outs in Perspective NEW ORLEANS – You never want to see it. A player goes down with an injury to the knee area. In the AllState Sugar Bowl on Saturday night, another victim was claimed. This time it happened to a potential first round NFL Draft pick in Ole Miss signal caller Matt Corral. …