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I have a day job: otherwise, I am solely focused on fixing the broken system that is College Football. Bold and ambitious ideas only!!! I also call out CFB scum
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Someone check on @tyschmit. Just an epic last-second TD by Iowa. They beat Michigan in the Big House on reverse buzzer karma. Iowa wins 20-19. (And it is upheld by review.)
Keep an eye on this @MattHayesCFB fellow. He does not seem to be handling Cig’s success well (or does it like it for some reason)
- blatantly lied in a headline leading up to GT’s opening game stating “Indiana didn’t want him.” That is factually not true. Indiana did not want him for QB1 money but did want him for QB2 money. And oh surprise surprise, based on what we have seen so far this season - Cig was spot on
- calls UK the “next Indiana” because yeah of course that 2 year run should be pretty for someone else to repeat immediately following
- now he is whining about Cig speaking at weekly restaurant call-in show.
Keep whining Matt - hope it makes you feel a little bit better about yourself!
#BBS
Boy the noise is heating up… this is not your average local beat writer for your rival using this strong language about your quarterback. We’ll see if corrections can be made quickly by Sam. I don’t project him finishing the season as LSU’s QB (and that assumes him fully healthy).
Does LSU have a Sam Leavitt problem?
@joelklatt: "He doesn't process information... He was playing like a wild animal out there... Leavitt's play is the most concerning part about LSU... You can't play Big 12 football in the SEC."
Interesting business decision to analyze here.
On one hand, it’s easy to always assign nefarious intentions - but Shannon operates a business and explores opportunities to grow and enhance the product. It is true that there is quite a lift to get to the sheer number of players, and this revenue stream could help enhance. Additionally, they are providing some level of service to these players by getting their names out, building their individual brands, get on school lists for recruitment, etc.
On the other hand, the optics are insanely bad here and they should have known that. Clearly top players will see zero need to pay this and it is unfortunate for the fringe player that can’t afford but would benefit the most.
Likely not a well thought out business decision that took the idea to completion with how respective customers/vendors/public would view this.
I suspect they pivot away from this very quickly.
1.04M kids played HS football last season. About 6,600 held a Rivals star rating… roughly 0.6%.
That's not a talent gap. It's a capacity gap. Our scouts have always focused on FBS prospects, and FCS, D-II, NAIA and D-III kids rarely get their film watched.
Rivals Recruits puts the same scouts, held to the same standards, on more of that film.
You can pay for an evaluation. You can't pay for the result.
Great resource and link for all college coaches and scouts. More opportunities for athletes.
on3.com/rivals/rankings/rada…
Corey Booker comes off looking like a clown. Nowhere to be found and “trying” to play catchup by cutting campaign promos. If he was that serious about this, he should have been behind closed doors getting his priorities heard when bi-partisan politicians were drafting the bill. It’s beyond embarrassing.
@slmandel
Simple observation:
- what does Nick Saban have to financial gain for supporting the PCSA?
- what does @heitner have to financial gain for opposing the PCSA in its current form?
That doesn’t guarantee honest assessment of the facts by either, but it is always interesting to understand the factual areas that could lead to bias.
Also - isn’t Cody Campbell supporting a cap effectively equivalent to the Dodgers in the MLB supporting a cap? Wouldn’t he have some incentive to continue as is, winning the arms race to keep TTU out-funding competitors?
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The NCAA has massively let down college athletes over and over again. I truly think it has been a travesty.
But so did the cohort of player reps (@heitner wears his FOS article calling him “the lawyer steering the NIL era” as a badge pinned to his twitter).
I find it more infuriating that people prancing around as “advocates” for players are actually letting down the players.
If Darren, Ryan and many others can lead athletes like Dae’Quan Wright and Zxavian Harris into a complete shit storm getting frozen out of both the NFL and the NCAA, why should we trust them to lead on anything?
My ire should be directed at the NCAA and their camp, but this is worse behavior and I would like them to sharpen their arguments, be intellectually honest, and realize there is a compromise that works before both players and NCAA/schools.
It is glaring to witness the limitations of the human brain right before our eyes. Darren (and yes many others) got so angry with the NCAA (can’t blame them for that) - BUT they are losing the long term battle because they let that anger destroy their ability to make contact with unemotional/factual landscape, put down the swords of litigating the past, and be leaders on getting the best go-forward deal for the thousands upon thousands of future players. Would that have been hard to do? Absolutely - but that would have been true leadership the players deserved.
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When did the shift of your focus go to CBA or bust? Have you had a single athlete tell you they want CBA? If so - can we hear from them? Not be snarky, but not hearing directly from the athletes has been a major liability to the cause.
@heitner
The alarmist language repping players lands as disingenuous to the public.
This bill would allow well north of $5b to athletes. It would be ~$400k per year on average for a football player. That means:
- $2m in total over 5 years (many making multiples of that)
- opportunity for college degree (NPV according to studies is $1.5m)
- opportunity to develop into a professional athlete was plus size earnings
- get to part of a university experience (are people really going to argue they got nothing out of their college experience for those that attended?)
They say exploitation, racial motives, modern day robber barons, and on and on. This is real money/opportunity and many player reps want you to believe they are doing hard labor on meal plans.
Another thought - isn’t it pretty wild players used to play for nothing (obviously unfair)? But the point is, clearly players still saw value in it somewhere.
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What am I missing - my rough math suggests this approaches ~50% of total college revenues (at least if I am understanding Chris Murphy cite $14b in total college revenues).
Is that not a fairly solid deal when comparing to comps at professional level (e.g. NBA and NFL right around ~50%)
@WinterSportsLaw @heitner please clarify if I am not matching numbers properly here
What am I missing - my rough math suggests this approaches ~50% of total college revenues (at least if I am understanding Chris Murphy cite $14b in total college revenues).
Is that not a fairly solid deal when comparing to comps at professional level (e.g. NBA and NFL right around ~50%)
@WinterSportsLaw @heitner please clarify if I am not matching numbers properly here
Isn’t it a bit ironic that the man you attack is like the one who has shoveled the most cash (individually) out of his own pockets to your clientele? Interesting approach….🤔
Quit the BS hyperbole, mobilize, understand the macro landscape, and fight for the best possible deal for players given where we are. They deserve that from lawyer steering the NIL era!
@heitner
The Protect College Sports Act is Cody Campbell's playbook. The wealthy co-founder of Texas Tech's NIL collective has become the muscle behind a bill that would give the NCAA an antitrust exemption. It's tough to reconcile with his writings from just a year ago.
When and why did the "free-markets advocate" who said an antitrust exemption is a "Trojan horse" go from believing that the "NCAA is broken" and that "America thrives on competition, not cozy cartels blessed by D.C." to one of the biggest backers of a bill that blesses such a cozy cartel?
Is this really about "saving college sports" or something else? If the mission remains the same, then why did Campbell tell us not to fall for the Trojan horse, only to, one year later, put his full support behind it?
This won't get the same attention as an advertisement featuring Nick Saban or Deion Sanders, but it should. thefederalist.com/2025/03/20…
I believe you all have zero clue about running a business, and would flirt with epic disaster if you got your full list of wishes and desires.
The more “business” this becomes and less “college athletics” - you will begin to encroach and compete with the NFL.
CFB needs strong actual ties to the school/brand and strict eligibility criteria that does not blur with the NFL. That is the competitive advantage. Right now, the NFL sees this as a symbiotic relationship where they have a very predictable pipeline to maintain a very structured player acquisition process. You start to mess with that current setup, and the NFL is coming for Saturdays. Their are ambitious billionaires behind NFL franchises, they won’t play nice if it messes with their business model (I think they demonstrated with unfortunate LSU situation - they are not open to flexibility on these types of topics).
@WinterSportsLaw
I am in agreement here. I don’t think it is out of bounds to call out Cig/IU for a very clear philosophy of scheduling a preseason non-conference slate.
On the flip side, I hope we get to the day where scheduling is 100% taken out of the school’s hands. They have no business controlling any of it.
#CollegeAthlete
If you want to see who REALLY is letting down the players, you might be surprised - it is people cloaking as speaking for the players, such as this guy @heitner 👇
He never took the public (and by extension - now bi-partisan congressional support) seriously. Instead, he scoffed at it - repeatedly btw, go look for yourself - while enjoying strong financial results for his law firm, fighting eligibility cases and related NIL deals for winners. His arrogance, and I would assume record profit year for his law firm, completely blinded him to what was unfolding.
He (and yes many others) have almost astonishingly flipped the public’s narrative narrative from “the NCAA is incompetent and we stand with players” to “get these effing lawyers out of our sport ASAP!” Yes, they may have helped a select group of individual players in the short run, but they are costing generations of players to come. This is not the leadership the players deserved.
We should be hearing from a sizable, unified, and organized cohort of actual players from here on out. We want to hear from them, as I do think they absolutely should be heard.
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To hell w Clay Travis, but speaking specifically on this - it is completely unfathomable in today’s political climate to have 78 senators vote for something.
The player’s camp has completely let down…… well the players. They got bogged down in every last historical gripe, chased any lawsuit under the sun, and completely missed an opportunity to clearly summarize + articulate a strategic vision to get a deal done.
They are wildly behind, but have caught some luck/time with house scheduling. Is there any chance they get their shit together in time?
@onuss_ @heitner @WinterSportsLaw
#LaneTrain
Think of you are Princewill Unanmielen. You put your full trust in LaneTrain and followed him to LSU. That got you a sizable lawsuit (that at minimum you will need to pay legal fees to defend) and a loss to the same program you just left.
This all could have been avoided for this young man had someone within the state of Louisiana decided that maybe it is not the best idea to let LaneTrain do whatever he wants (as @BlakeJRuffino from @AYSSPORTS says: “we gave him the keys to the Ferrari!”)
NEWS: LSU defensive end Princewill Umanmielen was served with court papers Tuesday related to the Ole Miss' lawsuit against him, according to court records. Umanmielen received the papers in the parking lot outside the LSU football facility on Tuesday, per ESPN sources. espn.com/college-football/st…
#LaneTrain#BBS
Happy to see some hint of self awareness and sense of humor from @MattMoscona
Here’s the thing, at this point there is really not much difference between BK and LaneTrain at LSU. LSU fans/media can’t see these things because they have BBS (Bayou Brain Syndrome), but it’s fairly obvious if you have access to your executive brain function:
- there was 0.0% chance BK was a fit at LSU. Everybody with a brain saw it day 1 and his basketball game speech validated it. That man literally was never going to work at LSU
- this unchecked and unhinged version of LaneTrain is literally 100% of the time going to crash into a similar ending
Believe it or not, I have no problem with Lane. He is a brilliant football mind and is good for the sport. I honestly don’t think the blame is on him should this fail. It should be LSU the school, and yes even local media, to hold him accountable and keep him balanced.
A balanced, sober, and accountable version of Lane (while still leaving room for him to be himself) at Ole Miss is his best version. Right now, the State of Louisiana has just left the liquor cabinet unlocked for someone battling severe alcoholism and expecting him to stay off the sauce….
I actually hope Louisiana can learn quickly here (I think a strong LSU is fantastic for the sport). But I certainly won’t say no to the 🍿should things not change - because oh man will it be a good laugh!
