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Outgoing NCAA President Emmert sits down with D1.ticker/Connect’s Fischer to discuss his tenure, his decision to walk away now, the changing landscape, his advice to Governor Baker and lots more. The potential for student-athletes being classified as employees is “absolutely the biggest issue” facing college sports right now, Emmert explains: “People need to look beyond just the top 50 football teams and the 100 basketball teams. They need to look at what does that mean for half a million young men and women. What does that mean for 1,100 schools and what does that mean for 22 other sports other than football and men’s basketball, and I think that’s where people miss the big picture in all of this… and I think that is an area where Congress will have to weigh in because you’ve got some states that are weighing in right now, and you’re going to wind up with that same crazy quilt of some states doing this, some states doing that.” Lots more in a comprehensive exit interview. (link)
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Fresno State AD Tumey’s two-year extension includes an optional third year, per CollegeAD, which reports Tumey will earn a base salary of $340K along with $50K in annual supplemental compensation from the Fresno State Athletic Corporation and bonus opportunities ranging from $2,500 to $25K. In addition, the corporation is scheduled to contribute $20K to a retirement program on July 1 of each of the next two years. Should Fresno State part ways with Tumey without cause prior to July 31, 2024, Tumey would be owed a buyout of $312K. That figure drops to $273K the following year, and any non-retention after August 1, 2025, will result in Tumey being paid $195K. Should Tumey leave before June 30, 2025, Tumey would owe the Bulldogs $120K. If the deal is extended for a third year, any termination by Tumey would result in his owing the athletic department $60K. (link)
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Oregon State President Murthy tells JohnCanzano.com there are “lots of reasons for [the Pac-12] to hold together. The different members of the Pac-12 understand it. All this talk about people running off and joining the Big Ten and Big 12 or whatever is just talk. I see a very different picture when I sit with the CEO Group. It’s a group that does want to work together and does value the Pac-12.” Murthy also reveals that “there has been discussion about unequal shares, unequal media rights or the CFP monies. We have had those discussions. They’re fair discussions to have. But nevertheless, I know that what sits underneath is a commitment to the Pac-12. We want to hang together. We find a lot of value to each other, so we work out what needs to be worked out.” (link)
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Baylor AD Rhoades says the Big 12 should be ready to act if the Pac-12’s media rights deal fails to satisfy its members, telling 247Sports: “I am certainly not rooting for the demise of any particular conference, but I am also looking out for what is best for Baylor and what is best for Baylor is a really, really strong Big 12, and one that secures its future but not over just the next six years but beyond. There is a short gain but also a long gain for this. It is dependent on what happens among the Pac-12. There may be movement if whatever media deal they are able to strike is not satisfactory. We have to be prepared for that and I think we are if that was to happen. Again, looking out for the Big 12, how do we strengthen ourselves." Rhoades goes on to say it would be “disappointing]to be quite frank” if he were presented with a media rights deal in which a streamer was the primary partner. “Where I go first is the brand of the conference, which means impact on recruiting. Conversations with my head coaches, in terms of brand building and linear space — I know everyone talks about cord cutting, but (TV) is still the way people follow college athletics.” (link)
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Oklahoma State AD Weiberg tells the O’Colly student newspaper that there have been discussions about adding women’s wrestling, but “this is a very challenging time to even think about adding any sports regardless of what they are. I think most people right now are fortunate that we’ve got 18 sports. … I think it’s in our best interest to just wait and see how some of that plays out.” (link)
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D1.ticker/Connect’s Eargle talks with Arkansas Senior Assoc. AD/Chief Public Relations Officer Trainor, who also serves as the Razorbacks’ sport administrator for baseball, about a number of topics related to the department’s baseball strategy, including fan engagement and promotion, investments, sport-specific giving, facilities expansion and lots more. Don’t miss the full Q&A now live on Connect. (link)
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Leadership Ledes… + Stanford AD Muir has been appointed chair of the USOPC Collegiate Advisory Council. (link) + College of Charleston MBB HC Kelsey agrees to a five-year, $5M extension through the 2028 season. (link)
+ Idaho has parted ways with MBB HC Claus (link)
+ TCU WBB HC Pebley is stepping down at the end of the season, saying: “While this is hard, the new landscape of college athletics and recruiting make this the right time for this announcement so TCU can make a hire this program and these women deserve.” (link)
+ Western Michigan extends Men’s Soccer HC Wiseman through the 2026 season. (link) |
Development Wins…
+ Indiana State has received a $125K contribution from alumnus Botich and his family to support the MBB program. (link)
+ Providence receives a “generous commitment” from alumnus Begasse and his wife to support the Friars’ men’s soccer program. (link) |
Kansas has released renderings for renovations to the Anderson Family Football Complex, which will begin April 10. Phase I includes updates to the locker room and weight room. The locker room portion of the project includes the installation of 124 Longhorn lockers and an increase in square footage from just more than 6K to 8K square feet. The project also includes a 15K-sq-ft weight room, which will be equipped with 18 platform weight racks, up from 12 in the current weight room. The project will be headed by design firms HNTB and Multistudio. (link)
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A group of former Iowa FB student-athletes who last year included Hawkeyes AC Wallace as a defendant in a discrimination lawsuit have dropped all claims against him, per The Gazette’s Miller, who notes the lawsuit’s remaining defendants are the university, the state Board of Regents, former strength and conditioning coach Doyle, FB HC Ferentz, OC Ferentz, AD Gary Barta. A federal judge earlier this month postponed the pretrial conference and jury trial until further notice “in light of pending motions in this case.” (link)
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Penn State has acknowledged that some of its fans “were using vulgar language directed toward Rutgers players and fans” on Sunday night but says it found that “no apparent racial slurs were used.” From PSU’s statement: “A deeper look into the matter today included conversations with Rutgers athletic director and staff, reports from University police officers at the event, and other game staff. Information was inaccurately conveyed to the Legion of Blue student group, which supports Penn State men’s basketball, and has not been found to be true.” A spokesperson for the Rutgers MBB team says the program will have no comment on the matter. (link)
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Warner Bros. Discovery Sports Chair/CEO Silberwasser tells SBJ’s Ourand the company will be aggressive in trying to retain its NBA rights. “I understand the noise out there. But I do hope that people see our commitment to the rights that we have and our commitment to making those rights better than they've ever been. If we were not interested in a long-term relationship with the NBA, we wouldn't be doing the things that we're doing. When we speak to our league partners, they know it.” (link)
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Also Noticed… + The Michigan State-Minnesota MBB contest originally scheduled for February 15 will not be rescheduled and officially be declared a no-contest. (link) + This year’s Pac-12 FB media day has been moved from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. (link)
+ Elon has launched the Forever Phoenix NIL Network via its partnership with Opendorse. (link)
+ Goldman Sachs CEO Solomon: “Inflation is going to be stickier and harder for us to manage. The market thinks a terminal rate is just over 5%. I actually think it's going to be higher than that. … The sentiment around the likelihood of a very difficult economic recession has certainly softened. I think the chance that we could muddle through with either a shallow recession or a soft landing certainly feels more likely." (link)
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Yesterday's Evening Standard... |
Oklahoma State AD Weiberg during today’s press conference unveiled the $325M OSU Athletics Vision Plan, which would feature a new football operations center, new wrestling training facility, new softball stadium, an indoor track, new training center for basketball, upgrades to the Pedigo-Hull Equestrian Center and to Karsten Creek Golf Course and repurposed areas in the west end zone of Boone Pickens Stadium and Gallagher-Iba Arena for student-athlete services that include a new academics center and spaces for mental health, leadership and career development. Weiberg: “This is a time of conference realignment and unprecedented transformation in college athletics. … Now is not the time to pause or rest on past accomplishments, but to honor those accomplishments by pushing forward and building upon what has been started. This vision plan provides a road map for the next phase of an athletics village that will be unrivaled in collegiate sports." OSU says implementation will be determined as funding becomes available for each individual element. (link, link); Check out vision plan renderings of each project along with the plan’s dedicated website. (link, link)
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Rice AD Karlgaard says there is “nothing going on” with a potential move to the Pac-12, telling the Houston Chronicle: “I think it’s logical that there would be speculation around us, given our academic profile and the academic schools in the Pac-12. … I have over the last three, four, five years had multiple conversations with those folks about kind of the state of realignment and where this may be headed. But nothing specific about Rice going to the Pac-12.” (link)
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Florida State Board of Trustees Chair Collins tells Warchant’s Schoffel the Seminoles “have a very good handle on the (ACC) grant of rights” and confirms that FSU will continue to push for a higher rate of distribution. “We have to do everything we can to take care of Florida State University. Our primary concern is not the ACC. Our primary concern is Florida State. … We’re at a competitive disadvantage in the two sports (football and men’s basketball) that produce the revenue we use to fund every other program.” (link)
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We offer our deepest condolences to the college athletics community following the passing of former Davidson, Virginia & ECU AD Holland, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2019. As you likely know, Holland also previously led the MBB programs at Davidson & UVa. (link) |
It’s Personnel…
+ Southern Utah AD Knuth names former San Jose State AD Tuite as Deputy AD for External Operations, effective next month. (link)
+ Iowa State AD Pollard has been named to the USOPC Collegiate Advisory Council. (link)
+ More talent transitions at the likes of Portland, Tennessee, Purdue, Cal & UTSA can be found on The Wire over at Collegiate Sports Connect. (link) |
Coaches Corner… + Hofstra and MBB HC Claxton agree to a multi-year extension. (link)
+ Tennessee Baseball HC Vitello’s three-game suspension is up, and student-athlete Ahuna’s eligibility has been reinstated, according to a statement from the Vols. (link)
+ Odd move this early in the season: Northwestern Baseball ACs Strauss and Napoleon and Director of Ops Beacom have stepped away from the program, per D1Baseball’s Rogers, who notes the Wildcats have started the year 0-6. (link) |
Paciolan launches ONEpass to reduce digital wallet clutter. Specifically, ONEpass will allow “patrons to download the ticket once, and it will automatically rotate to display one ticket at a time, updating before each event. What used to be 40 digital tickets for a season of baseball turns into one. This cutting-edge technology offers a seamless solution for managing event tickets, unlike anything currently on the market.” (link)
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Ohio State and the Columbus Blue Jackets have yet to figure out a way to schedule a game in Buckeye Stadium, per The Athletic’s Portzline, who reports that “by all accounts, the NHL is tapping its toes, waiting for the green light should the two parties ever get together on this. … The snag here in central Ohio is the estimated $8M price tag to winterize Ohio Stadium so that a game could be played in the depths of winter (remember winter?) without pipes bursting. Neither the Blue Jackets nor Ohio State want to foot the entire bill.” Furthermore, Buckeyes AD Smith reportedly balked at the idea of winterizing the stadium to prepare for the possibility of OSU hosting a College Football Playoff matchup. Smith recently told The Athletic: “We typically begin to winterize the stadium — drain the pipes, all those kind of things — in mid-to-late December. So we’re kind of right on that bubble. We could host (a CFP game) with no problem. It’s different if you’re going to host a game in January or February.” (link)
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A law passed in December which eliminates the opportunity for military academy graduates to defer service requirements and pursue professional sports has left Army West Point, Air Force and Navy worried that athletes “with high-end potential will not attend the academies or will transfer out early in their careers,” per ESPN’s Thamel. Air Force FB HC Calhoun adds: “Why do we want to repel people who want to serve? They want an opportunity in that short, short window that's available to make the most of their gifts and talents. Well, let's be forward thinking here. If not, then we don't attract the best, because we're putting up roadblocks." U.S. Congressman Smith (D-WA), who is the ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee, tells Thamel he hasn't decided whether he'll attempt to bring forward a proposed law to try to change the rule back to the 2019 version, which allowed for deferment. “The pertinent argument is…this actually helps the service academy mission.” Black Knights AD Buddie: “Obviously, we're not getting many commits from four- and five-star kids. But if a young person comes to the academy and shows a proclivity in medicine, we reward them and send them to medical school. If they earn a Rhodes scholarship, we send them to Oxford. To me, this is an extension of that." More from Thamel. (link)
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UCF adds Podium X to its professional development programming. (link) |
Last week, dozens of colleges and collectives received physical books containing annual earnings expectations for student-athletes based on 100,000+ Opendorse transactions, per Opendorse CEO Lawrence, who explains in a 23-tweet thread that “just like salary expectations influence your career, company choice, and tenure, student-athlete earnings expectations may influence their sport, commitment, and transfer decisions. But unlike salary ranges, NIL data isn’t widely available. ... Our insights are based on actual transactions, not hearsay or unvalidated algorithms.” The books include the annual earnings expectations based on position for each conference, division or group using primary data from student-athletes who gave permission for Opendorse to share aggregated insights. They are available to Opendorse partners and data contributors. More from Lawrence. (link)
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The Athletic’s Morales catches up with three Pac-12 ACs, one analyst and three recruiting analysts – all anonymous – to discuss how the recruiting landscape is changing. Asked which school has the best infrastructure in place for NIL, Coach 2 says it’s Oregon, “and it’s not even close. Oregon is the only school in the Pac-12 that’s to be feared from a national standpoint because Oregon can go to whatever region it wants to and come out victorious. That’s the bogeyman in the league. That’s Pac-Man in the Pac-12 from an NIL standpoint. Everybody else is child’s play.” Coach 2 is also bearish on the league’s future vis-a-vis conference realignment. “In my opinion, I think the Pac-12 is finished. If you add SMU and San Diego State, that’s like trying to put a Band-Aid on in a swimming pool. That’s not sexy.” Coach 3 says: “I didn’t really see the effect of it. I think a lot of kids are chasing NIL and branding, I don’t know if they care about that other stuff really.” More. (link)
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MLB inks a five-year resale ticketing partnership with SeatGeek, who will pay MLB a minimum of $400M, according to Sportico’s Novy-Williams, who reports the partnership is “mainly a revenue-sharing agreement, where the two sides will share upside from MLB tickets purchased on the platform, said the people, who were granted anonymity because the financial specifics are private. … SeatGeek will also share data with baseball, giving teams access to valuable information on who’s attending games and what their preferences are. The revenue and data share ensures that both sides have motivation to direct buyers and sellers to SeatGeek over other options.” MLB was previously partnered with StubHub. (link)
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