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#10: Tulane Sports Law Director Gabe Feldman and prominent Title IX attorney Arthur Bryant sit down for a wide-ranging discussion on Title IX’s implications in the rev-share era, and Bryant contends that “Title IX is very clear. If the college is giving any benefits or treatment to male and female athletes, it has to provide equal benefits and treatment to the male and female athletes program-wide. … So it is absolutely clear if a school is handing out $20.5M to its male and female athletes, then it needs to do that proportionally. That is if women are 60% of the athletes, they ought to be getting 60% of the money. That's the law. Now, there is an argument in the fine tuning that one could make for athletic financial aid. That is actually the law. … It's a little hazier and more difficult to analyze because, as we've referred to in theory, it looks at all of the treatment and benefits given to all of the men on all of the teams and says that all of those combined should be equal to all of the treatment and benefits given to all the women on all of the teams combined. Now in theory, that can be intellectually fascinating. It means in theory that men could get better uniforms, equipment and supplies, and women could get better facilities and coaching and recruiting support and somehow it all balances out. Or it means 115 men on the football and men's basketball team can get treated like gods and all the rest of the men can be treated like utter crap and the women can be treated like in between. And overall it could all balance out. So theoretically it's quite interesting and could be complicated, but as a real matter in the real world, it isn't tough at all because what's really going on, particularly at every major school in the country is the men on the football and basketball teams are being treated way better than everybody else except maybe the women on the women's basketball team, 15 women.” (link)

#9: The American unveils its new brand evolution, “Built to Rise,” designed to elevate how the league shows up: boldly, consistently, and with purpose across every platform. Launched on Monday prior to Football Media Days, the modernized brand identity includes a clear name (American Conference), the new “Built to Rise” tagline, a focused brand ethos with a new mission, vision, and purpose powered by three core pillars: Innovation, Grit, and Service, a new wordmark logo, a first-of-its-kind brand ambassador in Soar the Eagle, a national 30-second “Built to Rise” PSA and a re-vitalized digital experience including a new website and dynamic content and social media. (link, link) 

#8: Virginia has promoted Deputy AD for External Operations Tyler Jones to General Manager for football and women’s basketball. Jones also is now Chief Strategy Officer, overseeing the department’s revenue generation, and the school’s CAP Manager for football, men’s and women’s basketball and baseball. (link)

#7: The Seattle Seahawks received a “C” on the NFLPA report card last season for their training room. Since then, the organization remodeled the whole space, check it out. (link)

#6: Check out some new photos & video of Kansas’ renovated David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium. There is wheat in the endzones. (link)

#5: Oklahoma announces its 12-member AD search committee, which will be chaired by former AT&T CEO/current OU Chair of Football and Special Advisor to the President and AD Randall L. Stephenson. Sooner Athletics-related notables also serving as part of the group include former softball All-American Kinzie Hansen, 2008 Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Sam Bradford and longtime Women’s Basketball HC Sherri Coale. (link)

#4: Marshall is “targeting” Austin Peay AD Gerald Harrison to become the Herd’s next AD, per CollegeAD. CarrSports Consulting assisted with the search. (link)

#3: Temple has laid off 50 employees university-wide as part of an overall budget crunch. The layoffs are part of 190 positions that were eliminated with the rest coming through attrition, retirements and elimination of vacant spots. In athletics, "multiple high-level administrators” were impacted, including Senior Assoc. AD for External Operations Scott Walcoff who announced his departure on social media. (link)

#2: House plaintiffs attorneys and NCAA and Power conference officials have reached an agreement to allow NIL collective deals to be treated in a similar fashion as other third-party deals, per Yahoo’s Ross Dellenger, who adds: “The resolution creates what administrators term more of a ‘soft cap’ as opposed to a hard cap, as SEC commissioner Greg Sankey described it last week in an interview with Yahoo Sports. The expectation is that collectives will create legal ways to provide additional compensation, as Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti described Monday in an interview with Yahoo Sports. […] The change also, at least for now, prevents a legal challenge from leaders of a group of NIL collectives who began drafting a lawsuit against the CSC’s approach.” More: “The resolution may not completely end what will likely be continuous negotiations over particular enforcement rules between the power leagues controlling the CSC and the House plaintiff attorneys, who hold authority and veto powers over various aspects of the settlement. […] The guidance change may also not prevent future legal challenges over other enforcement aspects, including Deloitte’s compensation range concept or the appeals arbitration system that athletes can use for deals denied a second time.” (link)

#1: President Donald Trump has signed the “Saving College Sports” executive order, which “requires the preservation and, where possible, expansion of opportunities for scholarships and collegiate athletic competition in women’s and non-revenue sports; prohibits third-party, pay-for-play payments to collegiate athletes. This does not apply to legitimate, fair-market-value compensation that a third party provides to an athlete, such as for a brand endorsement; provides that any revenue-sharing permitted between universities and collegiate athletes should be implemented in a manner that protects women’s and non-revenue sports; directs the Secretary of Labor and the National Labor Relations Board to clarify the status of student-athletes in order to preserve non-revenue sports and the irreplaceable educational and developmental opportunities that college sports provide; directs the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission to take appropriate actions to protect student-athletes’ rights and safeguard the long-term stability of college athletics from endless, debilitating antitrust and other legal challenges; and directs the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy and the Director of the White House Office of Public Liaison to consult with the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Teams and other organizations to protect the role of college athletics in developing world-class American athletes.” (link); Full text. (link)

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