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With CFP still undecided on future format, SEC and Big Ten express doubts in commitment

February 5, 2024Articles, CFP, College Football, NCAA, NCAA Football, News, Pressed, ReportsBig 10, CFP, Greg Sankey, SEC, Tony Petitti

SEC commissioner Greg Sankey and Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti, for the first time publicly, expressed doubts in their commitment to the future of the CFP if leaders can’t “get…

SEC commissioner Greg Sankey: NCAA ‘distracted’ by NIL-related cases, needs to focus on ‘big realities’

February 2, 2024Articles, College Baseball, College Basketball, College Football, FYI, NCAA, NCAA Baseball, NCAA Football, News, Pressed, Reports, SEC, SEC Baseball, SEC FootballGreg Sankey, NCAA, NIL, SEC, Yahoo Sports

SEC commissioner Greg Sankey says the NCAA should focus on the “big realities” in college athletics rather than pursuing individual cases of recruiting violations of the association’s name, image and…

College leaders mulling several significant changes to NCAA transfer policy

December 22, 2023College Baseball, College Basketball, College Football, NCAA, NCAA Baseball, NCAA Football, News, Pressed, Reports

College leaders are seriously considering several significant changes to the NCAA transfer policy, including abolishing the year-in-residency penalty, increasing transfer academic eligibility requirements and levying financial penalties on schools that…

NLRB hearing begins weighing consequential athlete employee question this week

December 18, 2023College Baseball, College Basketball, College Football, FYI, NCAA, NCAA Baseball, NCAA Football, News, NIL, Pressed, Reports

Amid widespread industry tumult, one existential question hovers over all others: Should NCAA college athletes be deemed employees of their universities? Tap below to read the report on ON3.com https://www.on3.com/os/news/nlrb-hearing-begins-to-weigh-consequential-athlete-employee-question-this-week/

NCAA, states seek to extend restraining order letting transfer athletes play through the spring

December 16, 2023College Baseball, College Basketball, College Football, NCAA, NCAA Baseball, NCAA Football, News, Reports, Transfer Portal

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The NCAA and a coalition of states suing the organization asked a federal court Friday to extend a small window for multiple-transfer athletes to compete through…

NCAA proposing new college athletics subdivision rooted in direct athlete compensation

December 5, 2023Articles, College Baseball, College Basketball, College Football, NCAA, NCAA Baseball, NCAA Football, News, NIL, Pressed

NCAA president Charlie Baker is planning to introduce this week a proposal to create a new subdivision within Division I that grants certain schools more autonomy around policy-making and permits…

Is college athletics headed for The Great Split? ‘We need to recreate or relaunch the NCAA’

November 21, 2023Articles, College Baseball, College Basketball, College Football, NCAA, NCAA Baseball, NCAA Football, News, Pressed

The Great Split is no longer a far-fetched idea or a long-shot theory. It is instead a looming reality in light of legal challenges facing college athletics. Tap below to…

MSU announces new gameday safety regulations

November 8, 2023Articles, College Football, Events, FYI, Gameday, NCAA Football, News, Pressed, SEC Football

STARKVILLE, Miss. – Mississippi State University is instituting several new rules and policies to make tailgating in the Junction safer and more enjoyable for fans and to provide the family-friendly…

CFP must be reconsidered amid realignment, SEC commish says

August 21, 2023CFP, College Football, NCAA, NCAA Football, News, Pressed, ReportsChris Low, ESPN, Greg Sankey, NCAA, NCAA Football, SEC

As the winds of change continue to swirl in college athletics, SEC commissioner Greg Sankey said more change is coming, particularly with regard to college football's postseason format. Tap below…

Coaches’ preseason Top 25 poll is out, which means, well, nothing at all

August 11, 2023Articles, College Football, NCAA Football, News, PressedCoaches' Poll, Mississippi Today, NCAA Football, Rick Cleveland, USAToday

USA Today released its Coaches preseason college football poll, which has the Internet and the sports talk shows buzzing. And that’s OK, as long as you realize that the preseason…