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Mississippi State Fuels Future Success With Strategic Additions In NIL, Talent And Financial Strategy

August 13, 2025Articles, College Football, NCAA, NCAA Football, News, Pressed, SEC, SEC FootballCFO, Financial modeling, Financial Strategy, Greg Phillips, KK Seago, Mike Moser, Mississippi State Bulldogs, NCAA, NCAA Football, NIL, NIL Advancement, SEC Football, Student-athlete Talent Acquisition, Talent

STARKVILLE – Mississippi State Athletics has announced two significant additions to its executive leadership team, further strengthening the department's progressive approach to the new era of college athletics which includes strategic…

Sources: SEC, Big Ten building momentum to further expand College Football Playoff to 14 or 16 teams

February 16, 2025CFP, College Football, FYI, NCAA Football, News, Reports, SEC FootballExpand CFP, NCAA, NCAA Football, Ross Dellenger, SEC

Within the SEC and Big Ten, momentum is building to further expand the playoff to 14 or 16 teams, assign multiple automatic qualifiers per league — as many as four…

Title IX will apply to college athlete revenue share, feds say

July 16, 2024Articles, FYI, NCAA, News, NIL, Pressed, Reportscollege athletes, NCAA, Revenue Sharing, SEC, Title IX, US Department of Education

An official for the U.S. Department of Education, the federal enforcer of gender equity in sports, said Title IX rules will apply to future revenue dollars that schools share with…

Oklahoma working with former Eagles executive Jake Rosenberg on salary cap, revenue sharing

July 11, 2024Articles, NCAA, News, NIL, Pressed, Reports, SECcollege athletes, NCAA, Revenue Sharing

With athletic directors spending the summer figuring out what revenue sharing will look like, Oklahoma is turning to a former NFL executive for assistance. Tap below to read the report…

We are watching college baseball change — and not for the better

June 4, 2024Articles, College Baseball, NCAA, NCAA Baseball, NIL, Pressed, ReportsNCAA, NCAA Baseball, NIL, Transfer Portal

Few observers, if any, would argue that of all the so-called major college sports, baseball has remained the least affected by money and greed. It has remained closest to the…

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…

Athletes seek ‘seat at table’ in new college sports model

September 28, 2023Articles, NCAA, News, PressedNCAA

The walls are closing in on the current model of college sports. Lawyers, politicians, industry professionals and now a growing number of the athletes themselves are chipping away at the…

ACC votes to add Stanford, Cal, SMU: Conference presidents approve expansion to 18 schools

September 1, 2023College Baseball, College Basketball, College Football, NCAA, News, Pressed, Realignment, ReportsNCAA, NCAA Football

ACC presidents voted to extend conference invitations to Stanford, California and SMU on Friday, sources tell CBS Sports' Dennis Dodd. The three schools, should they formally apply for membership, will…

How state governments are using NIL to juice recruiting: ‘Why wouldn’t we try to help?’

August 22, 2023Articles, College Baseball, College Basketball, College Football, NCAA, NIL, PressedName image Likeness, NCAA, NCAA Baseball, NCAA Football, SEC

If you are a state legislator and there is a piece of legislation you could pass or a regulation you could repeal that would improve the competitiveness of a local…

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…