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#10: UNLV Football HC Barry Odom leads the way in USA Today’s list of college football’s most underpaid coaches. USA Today’s Paul Myerberg: “Set to earn $1.75M in total compensation this year, third among Mountain West head coaches, Odom is almost certainly set for a raise given the program’s unprecedented success through the first month of his second season. Last year’s team won nine games for the first time since 1984, won five games at home for the first time since 2000 and reached a bowl game for the first time in a decade, making Odom the Rebels’ first Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year finalist. This year’s squad is the first in program history to crack the Coaches Poll.” Others on the list include Toledo HC Jason Candle, San Jose State HC Ken Niumatalolo, Indiana HC Curt Cignetti and Utah HC Kyle Whittingham. (link); USA Today has also published a fully updated database with Football HC salaries. Georgia HC Kirby Smart leads all coaches with total pay of over $13.2M, followed by Clemson HC Dabo Swinney ($11.1M), Texas HC Steve Sarkisian ($10.6M), USC HC Lincoln Riley ($10.04M), Ohio State HC Ryan Day ($10.02M) and Florida State HC Mike Norvell and Alabama HC Kalen DeBoer ($10M). Full list. (link)
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#9: Sportico’s Michael McCann calls the House settlement a “historic win” for the NCAA, but warns of the future: “...even in a best-case scenario for the NCAA, the settlement only settles the three cases. A settlement is not a court ruling that sets precedent. It doesn’t reshape an industry and, in fact, can get rejected for trying to do so. A settlement is a contractual agreement that governs its parties but not those outside the contractual relationship. [...] The settlement also doesn’t foreclose the recognition of college athletes as employees who then might unionize. [...] The settlement also can’t stop an evolving, profit-driven market that caters to NIL and other business objectives and could generate legal controversies.” McCann also notes developments around a super league could bring its own set of additional legal challenges: “...colleges joining hands to alter how they compete and negotiate media rights could bring antitrust challenges. As the NFL has experienced over the last decade in court via the Sunday Ticket litigation, teams joining hands to restrict how they market their broadcasting rights can generate many billable hours.” (link)
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#8: Creighton is set to debut a new basketball court this season. The court will feature six numbers on the west sideline, three in front of each bench, to recognize retired jersey numbers, the year 1916 inside the midcourt Bluejay logo to denote the school’s first year in intercollegiate basketball, Heritage logos to honor Creighton's history and more. The court was designed by GLGR out of Beaverton, Oregon, and produced by Ledford Sports Floors out of Jenks, Oklahoma. Bluejays AD Marcus Blossom: "We wanted to make this court uniquely Creighton. It was important for us to honor our storied basketball tradition along with our Jesuit values while also injecting a bit of new energy to the design. I hope we struck the right balance." (link)
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#7: The Nevada women’s volleyball team will forfeit its match against San Jose State, which is scheduled for October 26. Earlier this month, UNR said it would play the match, but according to a report from OutKick, the decision to forfeit was made by the players, who wrote in a statement to the website: “We, the University of Nevada Reno women’s volleyball team, forfeit against San Jose State University and stand united in solidarity with the volleyball teams of Southern Utah University, Boise State University, the University of Wyoming and Utah State University. We demand that our right to safety and fair competition on the court be upheld. We refuse to participate in any match that advances injustice against female athletes.” Team co-captain Sia Liilii: “The school released that statement [committing to play] without consulting our team at all. We were pretty upset that we were not made aware that a statement was going to come out. We were actually in Las Vegas preparing for our match against UNLV, our in-state rival. It was a really frustrating time, especially because we were about to go and play a big game.” (link)
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#6: “Indiana has been accused in a new lawsuit of turning a blind eye to the sexual misconduct of a longtime physician for the IU men’s basketball team who allegedly routinely assaulted student-athletes.” More from behind the Law360 paywall. (link)
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#5: Texas AD Chris Del Conte tells Longhorns donors the House settlement will cost the department an additional $11.5M. More: “...we will maximize these new opportunities and continue supporting our student-athletes without eliminating any sports or reducing current scholarships or support service benefits.” (link)
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#4: NJ Advance Media’s Steve Politi and Brian Fonseca chronicle the events leading to former Rutgers AD Pat Hobbs’ departure and report that Hobbs went to university leaders in June seeking a raise. “His pitch was simple. He was the man who hired a pair of coaches, Greg Schiano and Steve Pikiell, who had turned basement-dwelling programs into contenders. He also was the most tenured AD in the Big Ten with almost nine years on the job, bringing stability to a department that had descended into chaos before his surprising hire in November 2015. … The response from Mark Angelson, then the powerful vice chairman of the Rutgers Board of Governors, stunned Hobbs. Not only was the answer a hard no on the changes to his contract, but according to two people briefed on the meeting, Angelson told him that the university had launched an investigation into an improper, consensual relationship between him and a coach in his department.” Two months later, Hobbs received a notice that he was to turn over all electronic devices used for university business for forensic imaging at an August 16 meeting. That meeting never took place, as “Hobbs abruptly resigned that morning.” With reports later surfacing that relationship under review appeared to be with Gymnastics HC Umme Salim-Beasley, Politi and Fonseca report that during a social event at Rodkin Academic Success Center one of the highlights was a tarot card reading. “According to two gymnasts in attendance, the reader overturned a card and asked Hobbs to define the most important thing in life. He looked at Salim-Beasley before answering with a single word: ‘Love.’” One of the gymnasts says: “It was so weird. It’s really hard to put into words, but they were staring each other in the eye, sitting right next to each other. You could feel some type of tension between them. All my teammates looked at each other with the weirdest look like, ‘What is going on here?’” Lots more. (link)
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#3: Memphis Deputy AD/SWA Lauren Ashman is no longer with the department. (link)
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#2: The Field of 68’s Jeff Goodman on Virginia MBB HC Tony Bennett’s retirement: “The big reason was the changing landscape. That he wasn't all-in right now, as the season got closer. The agents, the money, the NIL, all of that... he decided now was the time.” Sports Illustrated's Pat Forde was one of the first to report the breaking news on Thursday. (link, link)
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#1: Pittsburgh is set to hire Tennessee Senior Deputy AD/COO Allen Greene as its next AD, per ESPN's Pete Thamel. Greene previously served as AD at Auburn and Buffalo. (link)
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