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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. …
Yahoo! Money: Alex Rodriguez sees ‘slippery slope’ in amateur athletes profiting off of their names Connecticut point guard Paige Bueckers, named the most outstanding player in women’s college basketball last season, made headlines this week after signing a multi-year endorsement deal with StockX, an online footwear and apparel platform. The deal was made possible by an NCAA rule change this …
ESPN: What college football coaches learned from the pandemic last year WEST VIRGINIA COACH Neal Brown is hesitant when he says there are positive things to be gained from what he and his fellow coaches went through last season. “Maybe ‘positives’ isn’t the right word,” he corrected himself. Brown doesn’t want to paint a rosy picture of what was a …
Washington Post: Soon, the NCAA as we know it will no longer exist. Good riddance. A cracked old cornerstone has been yanked out from under the NCAA by the Supreme Court, and it’s going to lead to the total collapse of that crude shanty house, just you watch. Soon there will be nothing left under Mark Emmert’s feet but a …
ESPN: College Football Playoff expansion roundtable – The good, the bad, the what-ifs Next week, the College Football Playoff management committee will consider a proposal to expand the CFP to 12 teams. The proposal calls for the bracket to include the six highest-ranked conference champions and the six remaining highest-ranked teams as determined by the CFP selection committee. So what …
Transfer Zone: LinkedIn for college athletes entering transfer portal There is a growing trend that keeps college coaches on their toes 24/7. Student-athletes deciding to leave their school and enter what is called the transfer portal – a database where other coaches can reach out and offer a spot on their team. Sounds simple, right? “It’s a dark, dark place,” …
Yahoo Sports: ‘How the hell is this going to work?’ Coaches, recruits left in the dark with NIL deadline looming The high-major coaches crowded around the court to watch top-50 prospect Kyle Filipowski, a 6-foot-10 power forward at Wilbraham & Monson Academy who projects as a high-end college player in the class of 2022. Varying hues of powerful basketball brands …
RECRUITING: NCAA Divisions I and II extend COVID-19 initial-eligibility policies Divisions I and II extend COVID-19 initial-eligibility policies Standardized test scores will continue to be optional Students who initially enroll full time during the 2021-22 or 2022-23 academic years and intend to play NCAA Division I or II athletics will not be required to take a standardized test to meet …