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#10: A nugget from Nashville & the NCAA Convention as CBS’ John Talty posts: “NCAA Managing Director of Enforcement Mark Hicks says he heard from a school recently that one of its athletes bet $550K (!!) in a single year.” (link)
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#9: Southern Miss Men’s Basketball student-athlete John Wade III's court hearing challenging the NCAA's ruling on his eligibility for a temporary injunction was granted in continuance by Judge Taylor McNeel, who will make a ruling on Wade's focus on challenging the NCAA for breaching antitrust laws on the grounds of Vanderbilt Football student-athlete Diego Pavia's recently granted preliminary injunction. (link)
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#8: The Mercury News’ Jon Wilner writes on jockeying for a potential Super League, which he contends could occur with new media deals in the 2030s: “If the super league forms in the mid 2030s and if there are anywhere from 48 to 60 members, success on the field through the 2020s could determine which schools make the cut. Nobody wants to be excluded. If you’re excluded, revenue craters, fans interest dwindles and the brand value of your institution eventually drops. (Also, the president and athletic director get fired.) That’s why Arizona State must continue the success it experienced this season. That’s why Colorado needs to remain relevant, with or without Deion Sanders, and Utah must reclaim its high ground, without or without Kyle Whittingham. That’s why Cal and Stanford and Arizona and UCLA must find solutions and overcome their unique challenges. Any teams that flounder over the next five or six years — any teams that are viewed as second-rate performers with low brand value — could get left behind. Consider the race for invitations to a super league featuring every school in the SEC (16) and Big Ten (18), the ACC’s big three and Notre Dame. That’s 38 members. If there are 10 more spots — to create eight divisions of six teams — the Pac-12 legacy schools mentioned above would face competition from the likes of Oklahoma State, Miami, Brigham Young, Duke, Iowa State, SMU and a few others. One thing will fuel separation: winning.” (link)
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#7: While Rutgers’ gymnastics season has commenced as usual, NJ Advance Media’s Brian Fonseca reports the investigation into HC Umme Salim-Beasley’s conduct and alleged relationship with former Scarlet Knights AD Pat Hobbs continues behind the scenes. “There has been plenty of movement in the meantime – current and former athletes being interviewed by investigators, parents calling for Salim-Beasley to be suspended while they mulled legal action, further reporting on the situation – but the program has not been affected by any of it,” Salim-Beasley insists, noting that it’s “business as usual. … I have a job to do, and so do our athletes. I come in and I do my job, and we really inject positivity in them every single day. We help them realize that they’re capable of going out and being their best, and they’re really buying into that.” Asked if she wanted to respond to any of the allegations surrounding her or the program, Salim-Beasley declined to comment, saying she “can’t really talk about the investigation” because it is “ongoing.” She did tell Fonseca that “the program is thriving. People need to know that.” (link)
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#6: Check out the Nevada baseball team’s newly unveiled Tom Dolan Locker Room. (link)
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#5: UCF Senior Executive Assoc. AD/COO David Hansen has transitioned to a new role as Director of Athletics Village. (link)
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#4: Elevate has acquired Bowlsby Sports Advisors, with Founder Kyle Bowlsby to now serve as Senior Partner and lead the company's university sports-focused consulting undertaking. Chief Business Officer of Elevate Campus Jonathan Marks: “At Elevate, our foremost goal is to equip and empower our university clients with the tools and talent to drive the new revenue that will create competitive, innovative, and engaging athletic programs for fans, donors, partners, students, and athletes. The acquisition of Bowlsby Sports Advisors builds upon significant success and momentum for Elevate Talent following the acquisition of SRI a year ago; fortifying the agency’s reach, offerings, and expertise with a reinforced emphasis on the college space.” (link)
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#3: Former USC Executive Senior Assoc. AD/SWA Joyce Bell Limbrick has filed a lawsuit against the university alleging race and gender harassment, discrimination, retaliation and the failure to prevent discrimination and retaliation by former Trojans AD Mike Bohn, per the Los Angeles Times’ Ryan Kartje. From the filing: “[Bohn’s] incessant, racially charged remarks made Joyce feel uncomfortable and undervalued, but more than that — he actively isolated her from the executive team and undermined her work. She already was vulnerable as the only Black woman on the team, and rather than support her, the university allowed Bohn to make her life hell.” USC says it will have no comment until it has fully reviewed the complaint. More. (link)
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#2: Florida Men’s Basketball AC Taurean Green is alleged to have sexually assaulted a woman who is an athletics department employee in March of last year during “a meeting with her in the athletic facilities,” per ESPN’s Paula Lavigne. The allegation was brought forward as part of the university’s Title IX investigation into claims surrounding Gators HC Todd Golden: “She said that inquiry made her realize there could be concerns about a pattern of behavior and other women could be affected.” More. (link)
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#1: Sportico's Daniel Libit: "@EDcivilrights drops long-awaited Title IX/NIL guidance, putting onus on schools to ensure college athlete pay–even from outside sources–is gender-equity complaint. Big development 2 weeks before House settlement objections due." (link) More from Libit: "In a nine-page 'fact sheet' released Thursday, OCR clarified that, under Title IX, NIL money paid to college athletes should be held to the same gender-equity standards as athletic scholarships. Specifically, it stated that the amounts paid to athletes through NIL deals should be considered part of a school's athletic financial assistance, just as grants-in-aid and cost-of-attendance funds are. ... OCR further stressed that even when NIL payments are made by third parties, such as booster clubs or collectives, schools remain responsible for ensuring that these funds do not create sex-based disparities." (link) Full memo from the Department of Education. (link)
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