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Iowa officially names Interim AD Beth Goetz to the permanent position. President Barbara Wilson: “Beth is a talented and dynamic leader and the national search we conducted has substantiated that she is the best athletics director for the University of Iowa. She has done a remarkable job as interim, and I am confident she will lead our athletics department and student-athletes to new levels of achievement both on the field of play and in the classroom.” TurnkeyZRG assisted with the search. (link); Goetz’s five-year contract will pay her $850K annually with the opportunity for her to earn up to $175K in bonuses, per the AP’s Eric Olson. (link)
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Florida AD Scott Stricklin says he’s staying put in Gainesville after rumors circulated this week about his potential candidacy for the Texas A&M opening. “The University of Florida is the best job in the country for college athletics. It’s the best location. It’s the best school. We’ve got an awesome fanbase. I love being a Gator and I have no interest in working somewhere else at this time.” (link)
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NCAA SVP of Championships Joni Comstock announces her retirement, effective March 1. Comstock’s 44-year career in athletics includes the last 17 in her current leadership role with the NCAA as well as AD stops at American and UNC Asheville. (link)
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Stetson President Chris Roellke joins Collegiate Sports Connect’s Steph Garcia Cichosz to offer some insight into the Hatters’ AD search. Roellke discusses the opportunities before the program, the type of administrative background that fits the department's current needs, how he intends to engage with a new senior leader and what he loves about the DeLand community. On what traits he’s looking for in the next AD: “Kindness comes to my mind again. I happen to believe that kindness is really vital in higher education. I think it's vital in our world, particularly in a divided world. So, I'm looking for an athletic director that's kind. I'm also looking for an athletic director that's empathic and also one that's a collaborator. I've been asked by our donors and others about the qualities I'll be looking for in the next AD, and I think that no matter what role you play at Stetson you've got to be an educator. … I think of being collaborative and nimble and flexible as an important set of characteristics for a successful AD at Stetson University, and I also hope they really want to be here. DeLand is a very special community.” Full interview with Roelke on Connect. (link)
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The U.S. Department of Justice today joined the multistate lawsuit led by Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost which challenges the NCAA’s transfer eligibility rule as an illegal restraint on college athletes’ ability to sell their image and likeness and control their education. The states of Minnesota, Mississippi and Virginia, as well as the District of Columbia, have also joined the suit, bringing the total number of attorneys general who are backing the litigation to 11. Yost: “There is strength in numbers. This case would never have come to pass had many players not been sidelined by the NCAA’s arbitrary and unfair rule. We’re fighting for better competition and long-term change.” (link)
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Today on Capitol Hill…
+ During today’s NIL Playbook: Proposal to Protect Student Athletes’ Dealmaking Rights congressional hearing, NCAA President Charlie Baker during his testimony indicated that losing the Johnson v. NCAA case would “cost us about half to two-thirds of all the college sports programs around the country." Also from Baker: “If you convert all of college sports into employment, there is simply no doubt, based on math, that you will lose an enormous number of student-athlete opportunities. The money is just not there. Most schools lose money on sports."
+ UCLA QB Chase Griffin delivered a “withering critique” of U.S. Congressman Gus Bilirakis’ (R-FL) discussion draft legislation, according to On3’s Eric Prisbell. Specifically, Griffin pointed out that the bill includes more than 200 “negative references” to the NIL space with words such as regulate, prohibit, sanction, restrict and inducement. He notes that it is devoid of words such as freedom, growth, innovation, or Title IX. Griffin: “This bill simply codifies an outdated NCAA business model that Supreme Court Justice [Brett] Kavanaugh wrote ‘would be flatly illegal in almost any other industry in America.’ If enacted, this bill would deprive another generation of college athletes of a proven and growing pathway to the American Dream.” Griffin also remarked: “In every other aspect of American life, the expectation is that if you work hard, play by the rules and create value, you deserve to share in that value. Why shouldn’t this core American principle be true for college athletes?”
+ Radford volleyball student-athlete Meredith Page disagreed with Griffin’s stance on student-athletes becoming employees, citing concerns about the elimination of some sports and Title IX compliance. “Many of these questions are at the forefront of the minds of student-athletes and need to be resolved before any new model is implemented. I urge you to take action as the employment model causes grave concern for other athletes to have the ability to do the same thing I have. To grow, to prosper, and acquire an education.”
+ A key tweet from Yahoo’s Ross Dellenger: “The most noteworthy thing to emerge from the college sports hearing happened afterward, when Rep. Lori Trahan (D-MA) said she doesn't believe Congress will come to a consensus on granting employment exemption & antitrust to the NCAA. "That is not going to pass both chambers. … This Congress just doesn’t seem like the Congress where we’re going to have a lot of bipartisan wins. These are big thorny, tough issues. I’m not optimistic that this is going to be a Congress where we figure out college athletics at large." (link)
+ More from Dellenger (link) and Prisbell (link) and On3’s Jeremy Crabtree (link)
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Louisville AD Josh Heird tells LEO Weekly’s Tim Sullivan he’s fully aware of how quickly the landscape is changing, but “I haven’t had a single phone call with anybody else questioning the future of the ACC. I do think we always need to remember that while we have these ideas that the demise of the ACC is coming, there’s four elite conferences and we’re in one of those. That’s pretty good. I’m very comfortable saying we are proud members of what is still considered one of the top conferences in the country.” That said, Heird acknowledges there’s a gap between the SEC and Big Ten and everyone else. “In any industry, you feel the financial constraints that are put on you. I don’t think there’s anyone out there that said, ‘If I had a little less money, this would be easier.’ As athletic directors, that is what we are all tasked to do, (manage) the resources that are provided to us. I think we’ve proven and the ACC membership has proven that those financial constraints have not hindered the success of this conference.” Heird on Florida State’s legal action against the ACC: “Most of the time when both parties agree to a contract, in order to be relieved of those responsibilities that each side has agreed to, there has to be concessions somewhere. Everything has a price. What are those concessions? Is either side willing to entertain them? I have no idea.” (link)
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Fundraising Wins…
+ Western Carolina has received a $1M gift from alumnus Tad Grattan and his wife, Susan, to support the Catamounts’ Fill the Western Sky campaign, which includes a significant focus on enhancements to athletics facilities. WCU aims to raise $30M for athletic facilities upgrades. (link)
+ Yale has received a gift from alumnus Francis T. "Fay" Vincent, Jr. to endow the baseball HC position in honor of his father, also Francis T. “Fay” Vincent, a 1931 Yale graduate and baseball student-athlete alumnus. Bulldogs AD Vicky Chun: "We are honored to pay tribute to the incredible legacy of Fay ‘31. We are grateful to Fay '63 for honoring his father with this generous gesture that will support Yale Baseball for years to come." (link)
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Coaches Corner…
+ Mercer taps Lenoir-Rhyne (DII) Football HC Mike Jacobs for the same role. (link)
+ Major athletic departments likely will end up spending a combined total of at least $200M in connection with football coaching and staff changes made during and after the 2023 season, according to USA Today’s Steve Berkowitz, although he notes the “final overall total for the 2023 cycle will not be known for several years. Some amounts owed to fired coaches are set to be made over time, and many of those amounts are subject to coaches having to make good-faith efforts to find new jobs that create offsetting income.” Taking into account the offsets known so far, USA Today still estimates major universities will spend upwards of $191M in coaching turnover, including $127.1M to HCs, $32M to ACs and $32.4M to cover amounts newly hired HCs or ACs owe a previous employer. However, “all of this is without Alabama, Washington and Arizona having officially announced their full assistant coaching staffs. Those moves appear likely to add millions more as coaches get hired while others are not retained.” More from Berkowitz on specific scenarios still playing out or still could play out. (link)
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The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday ruled that six former Fresno State women’s lacrosse players suing the school for Title IX sex discrimination “were not implicitly biased against the interests of its other female athletes,” according to Sportico’s Daniel Libit, who notes the appeals court “vacated a district court judge’s order denying class certification in the case based, in part, on the argument that the plaintiffs would favor the school’s former lacrosse program over its existing female varsity sports.” The lawsuit was originally filed in February 2021, following Fresno State’s decision to cut its women’s lacrosse and men’s and women’s wrestling teams, and the Ninth Circuit found that the district court “clearly erred” in its ruling and agreed with an amici curiae brief filed by 18 civil rights organizations that stated: “If attorneys are not automatically disqualified where actual conflicts exist in class actions, young women who seek to represent and protect other women’s rights, as they seek to vindicate their own, should not be disqualified based on speculative conflicts.” Plaintiffs’ attorney Arthur Bryant: “The district court held that women on one team could not constitutionally represent women on other teams. The Ninth Circuit’s ruling makes clear that isn’t so.” (link)
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The College Sports Research Institute has released its 14th annual FBS Adjusted Graduation Gap (AGG) report, which indicates that the “overall FBS AGG improved/decreased from -17.5 in 2022 to -16.7 in 2023. While both Power 5 and Group of 5 AGGs improved/decreased slightly year-to-year, there remains a significant gap between FBS football players’ graduation rates and those of full-time male students.” Meanwhile, the College Football Playoff top 10 have an AGG of -28.7, greater than the overall P5 AGG (-18.6) and greater than the G5 AGG (-14.8). The 2023 P5 conferences’ AGG “remains sizable and significant at -18.6,” while the G5’s AGG of -14.8 reflects a 1.3% decrease from 2022. In addition, the AGG for P5 Black players (-24.2) improved/decreased by 1.2 percentage points from 2022, while the AGG of White players on Power-5 rosters (-2.9) improved/decreased by 0.8 percentage points. Also from the report: The difference in the Black-White AGG is much less in the Group of 5 (10.9 points ) than the Power 5 (21.5 points), but the gap has grown 2.2 points since 2022 (-8.7). Among the Power 5 leagues, the Big 12 continues to have the smallest AGG (-13.6), while the SEC had the largest AGG (-22.4) for the third consecutive year. The MAC continues to have the smallest G5 AGG (-6.3), while the AAC has the largest (-29.0) for the second consecutive year. Full report. (link)
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