Athletic Scholarship Advice for HS & JuCo Athletes
A: Yes, recruiting can pick up or even begin your senior year. If you have little or no interest after your junior year you have a few options. The most important things to remember if you are in this situation are that you must be willing to do the footwork on your own (do the research, make up to hundreds …
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ESPN: NCAA updates policy on transgender participation, to let each sport set eligibility requirements The NCAA announced a new policy Wednesday in which eligibility requirements for transgender athletes will be determined by each sport’s national governing body. The new requirements go into effect immediately. The previous policy, adopted in 2010, was uniform across all sports and was based on hormone …
NCAA Football Coaches Can Now Leverage NIL Data From Their Nielsen Impact Score to Recruit Athletes The Nielsen Impact Score that measures a college sports team’s marketing value for student-athletes has expanded to more than 100 college football programs. The database originally launched in October for NCAA D-I men’s basketball teams only. Nielsen’s Impact Score ranks a college team’s marketability …
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 …