Former Alabama coach Nick Saban faced several United States senators Wednesday morning in a historic hearing on Capitol Hill and pleaded for Congress to “bring order to a system that badly needs fixing” in the NIL and transfer portal era.
Late last week, Georgia president Jere Morehead — the most powerful president in college sports — said essentially the same thing. On Monday afternoon, SEC commissioner Greg Sankey didn’t exactly shy away from the idea of going it alone, though couching it by saying the league “talks every spring” about rules they could make and and follow alone.
Last week the U.S. Supreme Court announced it will review former Georgia Tech women’s basketball coach MaChelle Joseph’s Title IX lawsuit against the school for sex discrimination in employment.
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.)—the chair and ranking member, respectively, of the Commerce Committee—are set to release a new bill, the Protect College Sports Act, that attempts to thread the needle of reforming college sports without creating new problems.
The ACC remains cautious about embracing private equity (PE) despite the Big 12’s recent landmark deal with RedBird Capital Partners and Weatherford Capital, which has left most of its members uninterested so far.
The NCAA and Power Five conferences filed their formal response Monday to House v. NCAA class counsel’s motion to enforce the settlement, arguing the plaintiffs are effectively trying to “rewrite” the agreement to preempt the first scheduled arbitration over a ruling by the College Sports Commission.
The University of Arkansas will discontinue its men’s and women’s tennis programs at the conclusion of the 2026 spring season. “After considerable reflection and thoughtful discussion, we have made the very difficult decision to discontinue our men’s and women’s tennis programs,” Vice Chancellor and Director of Athletics Hunter Yurachek said.
The NCAA is weighing new eligibility rules that would allow athletes five years to compete from the time they turn 19 or when they graduate from high school—whichever is earlier.
Student-athlete eligibility in college sports is more muddled and legally combative than ever. Changes now under consideration could seek to resolve that.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit last Friday vacated an injunction that allowed West Virginia defensive lineman Jimmori Robinson and three teammates to play for the Mountaineers in 2025.