Crazy that Altman’s timing and Oregon promoting an assistant means the Ducks players don’t get a portal opening until … after the season has started. Feels kinda wrong, no?

With Oregon set to promote assistant coach and former DePaul head coach Tony Stubblefield to interim head coach, the transfer portal will not open for 31 days instead of 5 days after Altman's retirement. Similar to Michigan basketball this summer. on3.com/news/oregon-coach-da…

Welcome back Chuck 🔥

This is College sports now. How do you build on anything when the entire roster flips every year? Everyone is mentally living in an era that's never coming back. Every year will be it's own thing from now on, there will be no building in mid major football and basketball.

Respectfully, the NCAA needs to pass rules that don’t violate the law. Similar laments were made regarding the NCAA’s amateurism rules, and the players won, over and over. Still, the NCAA insists upon restricting athletes, only. How does every other multi-billion dollar industry in America avoid such legal challenges? They comply with the law. Simple.

Listen to @JayBilas . College athletes create enormous economic value for schools, conferences, the NCAA, broadcasters, media companies, and more. It’s fundamentally unfair to restrict athletes’ rights while leaving other powerful actors in the college sports ecosystem largely unconstrained. op: @YouthInc

Amazing to me how many people think recruiting and talent evaluation just stopped in a system where everyone is a free agent every year.

I’m waiting for the first power program to intentionally target a future year to go all-in. Hey, 2027 and 2028 are off the table from a transfer perspective, we’re going to punt on those rosters, focus solely on HS recruiting and roster retention and pool our “free agent” resources from ‘27 and ‘28 and put them towards 2029 where we go all-in.

it’s a lag. game has to catch up to coaches primary job changing from recruiter to strategist.

Sunday Thoughts: It feels like half of CFB is having an existential crisis. So many people want to fire their coach, even some with a good record and some with a new coach. Feels like we're in an unhealthy cycle and a weird place. Almost nobody can sustain anything.

Danny White left because the alumni base had no money, UCF graduates mostly hospitality folks and they won’t have money. @TerryMohajirAD is safe because UCF has no money nor balls.

This is why these temporary injunctions do more harm than good. Regardless of what side of the fence you sit on over these extra years of eligibility, all of these decisions need to be made before the season starts. Mid-season retroactive decisions just hurt the entire team.

Devastating blow for the Ohio athletes. The Court of Appeals reversed and remanded which means, “sorry, go prove it.” They remain ineligible and now return to the trial court facing a pending motion to dismiss. Discovery alone could take 3 to 5 months before a trial is even set.

This would be interesting. The Kentucky appeals court specifically rejected that argument (as did the Ohio appellate court in Borovicanin earlier today- 2nd image).

Another threshold issue that I wanted to see how the appellate court would handle is the traditional judicial deference for voluntary associations. And that's one area where the Court of Appeals said the trial court erred.

In the big picture, both Lorient and Wisne are narrow in that they only involve the class of '22 exclusion. This is a one-time issue that goes away on its own after this year. But, if a federal appellate court accepts their evidence of definition of the market, it could help future athlete antitrust lawsuits clear the first major hurdle and challenge "evergreen" issues like eligibility under the new 5-in-5 rule and more.

The court also thinks the NCAA's COVID waiver contradicts its current argument; court says it produced the same problems the NCAA points to in denying the c/o '22 a 5th season:

In 2025-26, 63 schools paid athletes the full amount allowed under the House settlement ($20.5M). There are 67 P4 schools plus Notre Dame. That means only 5 out of the 68 schools didn’t pay the full $20.5M. When NCAA comp caps go up, power schools usually quickly hit the cap.

That's a fair point, but it seems evident that the Class of 2022 issue is very unique. If it's pressed in future litigation it'll be easy to say "They were within the firm five year clock, we made an incorrect call to exclude them, but we're sticking to that five year clock."

Just talked with my Texas rep: The Protect College Sports Act is “dead on arrival” in the House. Apparently the Moody amendment is a poison pill that kills any shot at passage. With funding the government the top priority post-midterms, this bill has a “snowball’s chance in hell” of surviving.