It’s not a long shot anymore - college football is on a path to an on-time kickoff.
To cap an optimistic week, #NCAA leaders are exploring a preseason practice plan of NFL-style OTAs & then a 4-week camp that’d be required before teams can begin a season
Inside discussions of the DI Football Oversight Committee.
-expectations are for 3/4s of FBS teams to start work by June 15
- by July 1, committee might allow normal "required" summer workouts
- preseason plan: 2 week OTAs in July + 4 week camp in August
As for fall sports other than football and basketball - ie volleyball, cross country, soccer - the Committee plans to rule on their return to campus as soon as today/early next week.
Committee ran out of time Wednesday during deliberations.
Under a plan being considered by the DI Football Oversight Committee, schools will be required to hold four weeks of practice before starting their season.
It could potentially put early-season games in jeopardy.
A thread on the NCAA’s historic 10-year settlement agreement that will pay back-damages of $2.8 billion, at least $15 billion in rev-share & reshape the governance, enforcement & scholarship structure of major college athletics.
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Back Damages
- How much: $2.776 billion over 10 years
- From: NCAA national office (40%) & schools (60%)
- To: 15-25,000 DI athletes who played from 2016-2020ish
- Distribution: “Allocation formula” used, with estimated 90% to P5 FB/MBB players (~6K athletes)
Rev Share
- How much: ~$20-22M annually (fluid; will escalate based on school rev figures)
- From: Schools
- To: Athletes
- Distribution: School discretion (Title IX applies)
- Implementation: Summer/Fall 2025
- Exceptions: $5M of Alston/new scholarships can count toward cap
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.
"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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.