#LSU is hiring Notre Dame’s Brian Kelly as its next head coach, sources confirm to @SINow, as @PeteThamel reported.
@SInow@PeteThamel Personally, I doubted the day-long buzz, mostly because Notre Dame still has a real chance at making the Playoff.
These are unprecedented times.
In a span of about 36 hours, we've had two of the most high profile college head coaching moves in the modern history of the sport.
@SInow@PeteThamel A week ago today, Brian Kelly said this: "Unless that fairy godmother comes by with that $250M check, my wife would want to take a look at it first. I'd have to run it by her."
I doubt it's $250M, but I'd guess #LSU is making Brian Kelly the highest paid coach in CFB.
Lincoln Riley's Sooners have scored 16 unanswered points on three scores: (1) by its offense after an interception; (2) by its defense on a forced fumble-safety; (3) by its special teams on a muffed punt recovery in the end zone.
Things for Oklahoma State are going from bad to worse.
Pokes miss a 44-yard field goal to make it a one-score game.
Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby tells @SINow that he has documented evidence that ESPN tried to encourage an unnamed conference to add Big 12 members in an effort to destabilize the league so Texas & OU could avoid exit fees.
"It is tortious interference," he says.
@SInow Bowlsby: "It causes me to further suspect they (ESPN) had their hands all over the Texas and Oklahoma move to the SEC. They were was deceptive as you can possibly be. There are right and wrong ways to these things. They sought to deceive us from the very beginning."
@SInow Bowlsby tells @SINow that he learned of Texas and OU's potential move to the SEC like everyone else did: From media reports last Wednesday.
He was returning from a campus visit to Kansas when he learned of the report.
The plane landed and "our phones blew up," he says.
Hush Blackwell, the law firm #LSU hired to investigate sexual assault allegations, is revealing its report today in front of the Board of Supervisors.
Scott Schneider, from Hush Blackwell: "The university's Title IX office, up to today, has never been staffed appropriately."
Scott Schneider on #LSU’s Title IX reporting process: “One survivor described it as it was designed to put victims in position to give up because they were worn down by the process.”
Schneider: "The errors that we see in athletic cases, we see them popping up in non-athletic cases as well. The answer to 'Are athletes being treated differently in this process?' The answer is no."
So, this is a sweeping issue across the #LSU campus, per the report.
A Jackson State spokesman tells @SInow that the school has narrowed its list of head coaching candidates to three.
Deion Sanders, the spokesman says, is not one of them.
A hire is expected to be announced next week.
JSU OC TC Taylor remains a strong candidate, per source.
@SInow NEWS: Multiple Jackson State sources tell @SInow the school is finalizing a deal with Deion Sanders to make him their next head coach, despite the university refuting @KennRashad's report.
A hangup getting smoothed out: Sanders is under contract with Under Armour. JSU is Nike.
White House officials held a briefing on the role the president played in helping Big Ten resume college football this fall.
"The president is honored and humbled he was able to make a difference in this and is excited these players can pursue their dreams."
White House official says, while the president hasn't necessarily reached out to other conferences, he wants "everybody to reopen. It’s not just about the Big Ten. He’s willing to provide resources to anybody reconsidering to play football. ... This is not a political thing.”
White House officials decline to say whether the Big Ten is using federal resources/testing that Trump offered in a call a few weeks ago with B1G commissioner Kevin Warren, but says the president "fulfilled what they were looking for, whether they take it or not."
At 10 am, the fourth Congressional NIL hearing is scheduled to begin.
@SInow obtained testimony of the three NCAA witnesses, including Wisconsin chancellor Rebecca Blank, who writes to lawmakers "We’re not running sports to primarily make money."
@SInow Other NIL news from y'day via a survey the NCAA sent to schools.
A proposal would prohibit athletes from referencing their school/using logos in commercials & bans them from endorsing sports gambling outlets/those conflicting with a school’s “values.”
@SInow I expect the hearing will focus on (1) athletes = employees; (2) going beyond NIL for sweeping NCAA reform; (3) CFB’s handling of COVID; (4) athletic department finances.
Chair Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) is expected to detail the benefits of being a college athlete in 2020.