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Florida hosting recruits in Jacksonville for Georgia game College football rules are constantly changing, and one of the new recruiting rules says that the home team can leave tickets for players at neutral site games. Georgia was the home team last year and got to host players then, but this will be Florida’s first chance to use the World’s Largest …
The Cavinder twins, ‘queens’ of college sports endorsements, poised to make $1 million Haley and Hanna Cavinder, twin basketball stars for Fresno State University, needed some extra time before they could talk about their latest endorsement deal. It was the day after a road game at the United States Air Force Academy, and the business management majors had to finish …
USA TODAY – SAT is going digital: Exam will be online-only, shorter as colleges ditch standardized tests Put down the pencils and grab your laptop: The SAT, one of the nation’s most commonly used college-entrance exams, is going digital. The College Board, the organization that administers the SAT, PSAT and other standardized tests, announced the change Tuesday. The shift to …
So much to change’: Coaches share ideas to fix Transfer Portal The transfer portal has provided players across the country second chances, new opportunities and bigger stages to shine — and improve — on new teams. But for many, the portal has proven to be more a pitfall than a gigantic leap on their career path. Not all players are …
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 …
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 …