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Sen Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn), one of the harshest Mark Emmert critics, is asked about #NCAA wanting antitrust exemption.

"I want to see them learn how to make a decision (first). Wouldn’t that be nice? They don’t have to committee everything to death."
Blackburn believes Congress can pass an NIL bill this year.

"The Senate can walk and chew gum at the same time. We are going to be able to confirm judges, do work on privacy…. We’re going to continue to do it all."
Blackburn: "We were giving the NCAA a chance to get their act together, but I think their leadership is weak. They are tentative, have shown they can’t come through with a requisite list of standards. If they are that ineffective, we will do this for them."

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Apr 16
Five Michigan football coaches at the center of the recruiting violations during the COVID dead period have reached an agreement on penalties with the NCAA. Image
"The negotiated resolution also involved the school's agreement that the underlying violations demonstrated a head coach responsibility violation and the former football head coach failed to meet his responsibility to cooperate with the investigation."
Penalties:
- three years of probation for Michigan
- a fine & recruiting restrictions
- one-year show-cause orders for the coaches
Read 4 tweets
Dec 5, 2023
NCAA president Charlie Baker is proposing the creation of an FBS subdivision that permits schools to directly compensate athletes thru a trust fund & NIL, sources tell @YahooSports.

It is perhaps the most revolutionary concept introduced in NCAA history.
bit.ly/4a68NIY
Charlie Baker outlined the groundbreaking proposal in a letter sent to DI members & obtained by @YahooSports.

Members of the new FBS subdivision are permitted to strike NIL deals with their own athletes, but the most impactful change is the trust fund. bit.ly/4a68NIY
For entry into the subdivision, schools are required to deposit annually at least $30,000 per athlete into a trust for half of their athletes. Schools must follow Title IX (50% go to women).

A 4-year athlete stands to earn at least $120,000 in a career.
bit.ly/4a68NIY
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Nov 20, 2023
It’s Egg Bowl Week. One of the most beautifully dirty rivalries there is - steeped in pettiness, espionage & pure hatred.

Here's our traditional Thanksgiving Week Monday thread on a rivalry that made me fall in love with college football. Image
The petty goes back to the founding of one of the schools in 1878.

Mississippi A&M, now Mississippi State, was created 30 years after the University of Mississippi “because of the disdain dirt farmers had for Ole Miss,” per archives.

In many ways, nothing has changed.
In 1905, after the two teams played for the first time in Jackson - an 11-0 State win - Mississippi State students carried out a full military-style funeral for Ole Miss football, toting a real coffin through the heart of the city.
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Sep 1, 2023
It’s final: ACC presidents have approved expansion to add Stanford, Cal and SMU, sources tell @YahooSports, ending a month-long saga into an issue that divided the league.
The expectation entering the meeting this morning was that at least one member - NC State - planned to support the expansion proposal, giving the league the necessary 12 votes for expansion.
Under the ACC’s most recent proposal, Stanford & Cal would take a reduced TV share (~30%) & SMU was expected to take 0 TV share for ~9 years.

The schools would see an escalation in their shares thru the GoR & they’d receive non-TV ACC shares from NCAAT, CFP & incentive pool.
Read 8 tweets
Jun 1, 2023
The SEC’s scheduling dilemma is over: The league will play 8 conference games in 2024 when Texas & OU join in what is likely to be a short-term format with a play to eventually get to 9.

Before officials arrived here in Destin - as we reported Monday - this was the trajectory.
Division place is eliminated, as expected. Two top teams from the standings play in the title game.

The one Power 5 non-conference game requirement remains.
Greg Sankey does confirm that the SEC will explore a long-term scheduling format that, Sankey says, is "fully open." Continuing dialogue will continue.
Read 8 tweets
Nov 21, 2022
As is tradition, a thread on the Egg Bowl, which is the dirtiest, ugliest, most awesome rivalry I’ve ever been around.

It is rooted in posturing, pettiness & espionage.

It is the type of series that makes college football both unique and better than any other sport.

(1/13)
The petty goes back to the founding of one of the schools in 1878.

Mississippi A&M, now Mississippi State, was created 30 years after the University of Mississippi “because of the disdain dirt farmers had for Ole Miss,” per archives.

In many ways, nothing has changed.

(2/13)
In 1905, after the two teams played for the first time in Jackson - an 11-0 State win - Mississippi State students carried out a full military-style funeral for Ole Miss football, toting a real coffin through the heart of the city.

(3/13)
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