Seems like Alabama is having a hard time keeping up with the arms race. Maybe this could be part of why Saban retired, and unless they can find some more money, will be a problem moving forward. "But for a department staring down a $28 million loss in 2023-24 and a $12 million hit the year...

Yes, back when it happened.

Not sure I care much what he says, but would prefer everyone picked someone else, the team doesn't need any extra rat poison.

That happened back on April. If it really happened a 2nd time, then that would be way worse then having it happen once. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.fox7austin.com/news/nick-brooks-texas-longhorns-football-arrest.amp

https://www.on3.com/nil/news/greg-sankey-releases-statement-house-v-ncaa-settlement-approval-sec/ This part is news to me, and hopefully brings some order to the NIL chaos. "The settlement also imposes new restrictions on college sports. An NIL clearinghouse will be established, titled “NIL...

For better or worse,It's now official. Texas can now start paying players directly. "HB126 will allow colleges to directly pay athletes, putting Texas in line with the recent House v. NCAA settlement. It will also allow high school athletes age 17 or over to sign NIL deals, whereas only...

I agree that the portal and NIL make the job harder. But at the same time coaches are allowed to have bigger staffs to help them negotiate these new complexities. If a coach is up to the new challenges, then a place like Texas gives Sark some advantages over smaller budget schools that Mack...

Hopefully we will say the same thing about some future player(s). Hoping that it becomes an appropriate statement for Arch.

Another angle on this is that Nick Saban made a comment on the Pat McAfee Show Istating that Vanderbilt is the "only place in the SEC that's not hard to play", before Alabama lost. That likely gave Vanderbilt some extra motivation. Saben wasn't the coach at the time but I believe he was an...

Mack coached from 1998 to 2013, and won a natty in 2005. So neither coach won a national championship in there first 4 years at Texas. If NCs are your only metric, then you will need to wait until Sark is done, before the comparison makes sense.

It's definitely another dimension in the complex decision process that Sark needs to consider when making offers. The type of players Sark is hoping to attract are top athletes, who will be able to keep working hard on and off the football field, and not get derailed by all of the money. Lots...

NIL is already millions to certain high school kids, revenue sharing is more millions. Love it or hate it, it's the current reality of college football.

Probably won't matter, but it seems idiotic to give one of your opponents that type of extra motivation.

From Sark's comment that the 40 million roster reports were wrong, and he wishes he had another 15 million, implies a 25 million roster. 7 million over 3 years would be 9.33% of the current roster budget. With revenue sharing coming, that budget is going up, as is the roster size How much...

They have been put in an impossible position, squeezed by the courts from any type of rule making or enforcement. I'm not sure what college sports would look like without the NCAA, but we just might find out.

Oh my. Not sure how to feel about this. https://www.on3.com/news/greg-sankey-i-have-people-in-my-room-asking-why-are-we-still-in-the-ncaa/?fbclid=IwY2xjawKh4jRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHlddSolKQjR7Opckv7mfw2wsKbWfsIxCTYYCwpJm5xhpzMM0yB2CCZlpfRmM_aem_-W9GyYo2dKm3DvD3JzwWkw

Perhaps, but as the advantages of big money blue bloods increases, it will become harder and harder for schools like that to succeed. When those schools do succeed, the players and coaches are likely to get offers from other schools, that will be difficult to ignore. As impressive as...

The new 105 roster limit and revenue sharing will further the hierarchy of college football. If you aren't a big money blue blood institution, you will mostly be left on the outside looking in. Schools like ou will be at some disadvantage, but smaller non SEC/B1G will really be *ucked...

I guess you can't blame them for asking, but CDC probably laughed at the request.

Oops. Here is what the baseball changes "In NCAA Division I baseball, the roster size limit is 34 players, with all players eligible to receive a full scholarship. This is a change from the previous system where schools were restricted to a smaller number of scholarships. The NCAA has also...