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As a Hoo, monitoring this thread has been interesting. I was hoping Tony's comments would ignite a thread here on DBR about whether there's any hope for reforming college sports in the areas of Tony's criticisms, and, if there is, how we get there and what the destination looks like. I'll hold...

An alternative approach is to just repeal amateurism. You don't need a union and a collective bargaining agreement. Allow outright pay for play, whether by schools paying players or collectives. Almost all of the NCAA's legal woes flow from trying to restrain the free market. This would not...

Cording to the article you linked, Vanderbilt dumped SMU to instead play Georgia State this season. Vanderbilt lost to Georgia State. Karma!

Do we know if the door for UNLV to join the PAC12 has been legally welded shut? UNLV joining the PAC makes so much sense for both UNLV and the PAC. I wonder if the PAC12 might circle back with a better offer after testing the TV value of its existing eight (i.e., including Gonzaga for hoops). I...

But what is the personal or emotional connection to the players that draws you in? My college sports fandom goes back to the late seventies. All along, the academic part of student-athlete (SA) has been sketchy, especially in football and men's basketball. It's gotten sketchier with online...

I don't understand the inclusion of Buffalo. If the top academic schools from the ACC, B10, B12, and SEC get autobids, wouldn't Rice be the best G5 academic "champion"?

If you run the same comparison between the ACC and the B12, you'll get a somewhat comparable result. If you compare undergrad rankings, the ACC is the clear #1 of the power conferences. If you compare on research dollars, which is mainly a grad school thing, then the B10 takes the lead because...

I did some history reconstruction. It appears Stanford and Cal pursued ACC membership rather than B12 membership because those schools preferred the ACC, likely for academic and Olympic sports reasons. When it looked like the ACC might not work out for Stanford and Cal, they expressed some...

Now the P12 and MW are litigating, unsurprisingly. It's a case of the shoe now being on the other foot. The P12(really 2) got a warchest from the other schools leaving the P12. Now the MW is poised to get a warchest from schools moving from the MW to the P12 - exit fees and poaching penalty...

Two thoughts: First, the current CFP structure only runs this season and next season and then can be negotiated. There is no guarantee that the fifth power conference champion gets an auto bid. It probably will because otherwise the group of five might file an antitrust lawsuit against the CFP...

Ross Dellenger reports on Twitter that it appears Tulane, Memphis, and USF will stay in the American after sufficient bribery by the American. He also reports the Mountain West is trying to sweeten the pot for valuable remaining schools to prevent further defections to the P(not quite)12, such...

I'm somewhat repeating myself, but the shape of settlements is decided by leverage. Leverage against the ACC that may make it consider a deal along the lines reported: 1. Fear that FSU/Clemson might win in court. That could happen for two reasons: A. Home-court cooking by a Florida or SC...

Fair point. Perhaps it was war-gamed, and the ACC felt its GOR position remained solid. But it's also possible that the ACC felt the "even if you leave the ACC, we keep your rights" language in the GOR had the issue buttoned up, and it didn't think of the clever argument Clemson later made. Note...

I realize this is probably obvious from my post above, but if FSU and Clemson escape the ACC, then the ACC contract isn't such a good economic proposition to ESPN during 2027-36. It would have lost its two biggest viewership attractors. I maintain that the current ESPN contract, even with FSU...

The question is whether ESPN thinks the GOR is so solid that there's no material chance that FSU and Clemson can escape. I am an IP lawyer, and it appears to me that the ACC has the stronger hand. But I hear Clemson's legal theory concerns some ACC bigwigs, and FSU adopted Clemson's legal...

I'll be ESPN is a big factor, if not the instigator, in the reported settlement talks. ESPN has until February to decide whether to keep the deal running from 2027 to 2036. It's probably asking the ACC for assurance that FSU and Clemson will remain in the ACC before it exercises its...

The NCAA will be subject to a steady rain of antitrust and right-of-publicity lawsuits for a while. Unless it can shave off most (nearly all?) of that liability with statute-of-limitations defenses, it may be forced to go through a strategic bankruptcy and reorganization to shed all the...

What's unusual in the ACC is for an ACC home team's stadium to be nearly full. Y'all (Duke) are hit by this somewhat more than usual because you are a small private school with a national student body/alumni cohort. Yet, each of these schools also regularly have acres of bare aluminum for many...

That's true in principle, although the pro leagues vary in how much the cap causes similar spending. For example, the baseball cap is high and loose, so there's a wide variance in per-team spending. Judge Wilken just shot down the House settlement, and her comments indicate she won't be...

College football has been creating joke-easy academic pathways for football players since the beginning of college football. It's well documented in the book "The Opening Kickoff," which covers the first few decades of college football, which was in the 1800s. For example, in the early years...