Why is it absolutely no surprise that Indiana made the first big splash using the Colorado injunction?
Daley, if you can recall, is the one who hurt his leg while celebrating the Hoosier B1G Championship win and rendered himself out for the CFP. Indiana won it all anyway, but he watched it from the sideline.
Looks like he’ll have a chance to run it back, and even if he’s out of game shape, he won’t have to worry about playing until sometime in late October, anyway.
A revised copy was sent to the SEC and B1G at the midnight hour, and they have 25 minutes left to respond to proposed changes.
A 10 a.m. ET deadline has been set for the conferences to sign off on the bill. The two conferences were not involved in the drafting of the bill when it was initially released earlier this summer.
“If this thing doesn’t happen, it’s 100% on them,” a source told On3. “These Senators and everybody else has bent over backwards for them.”
The Senate is only days away from its month-long summer recess, which would put Division I universities with the same patchwork of state laws to operate from as the college football season kicks off.
This comes after Sens. Ted Cruz and Maria Cantwell made concessions on Tuesday and Wednesday to get the legislation’s wording to meet the Big Ten and SEC. Among the concessions that have been made are an additional $25 million pool for player retention, entities cannot acquire media rights to create a new conference and a prohibition of compensation to recruits before enrollment.
“Major concessions were made overnight,” a source told On3 on Wednesday. “At this point, with every passing minute, odds are slimmer that we can move the bill before the August recess. We’ve been working night and day to make the revisions they said they needed, and we need an answer. That wasn’t a superficial deadline. There’s a lot that goes into passing legislation – a lot of work behind the scenes and it just takes time.
“The Big Ten and SEC have been in the loop throughout the entire process – they’re familiar with the bill text and the changes we’ve discussed.”
I think I know how the final decision will be made, if I’m being honest:
I wonder if they’ll ask Pope Bevacqua at Notre Dame for a final blessing, too?
Funny how Notre Dame waited around until Ohio State announced their deal with Chase Morgan to drop a little “one-up” on the Buckeyes.
Now while this looks like a battle of the corporate sponsors and we await to see if any other program dares to meet Notre Dame’s $20 million prize purse, let us remind ourselves that the BigXII…yes, the entire conference, inked a deal with Monster Energy that covers the entire conference and all program teams…and it just matches Notre Dame’s deal.
Really, at this point, you can’t blame Notre Dame for choosing to stay independent. In a time where we pine for things to be like they used to be “back in the day”, it could be that Notre Dame is the only program remaining true to form.
Ironic.
To frame the question, take a look at this name soup and scratch your head and wonder…what the hell?
Probst & Pruitt could be a law firm for football shenanigans, but it’s a reality of modern “forgive, forget, and forge ahead”.
Georgia’s most recent QB commit, Colton Nussmeier, is currently unenrolled for his senior season of high school football in Texas because of transfer rules, so something leads me to believe that he’ll be moving to a Georgia high school near you sometime very soon, or he’ll be playing little league football a la Arch Manning at some private academy…or maybe he’ll land at IMG.
It’s hard to ignore what the portal and NIL has done to the college game, but it’s trickling into high school athletics now, too. While transferring to better programs has been a thing for quite some time, we’re seeing the same with coaching changes that are similar to some of the college coaching drama, too.
Dylan Raiola is on his fifth team in six years, hopping from Texas to Arizona to Georgia to Nebraska, and now, Oregon. While that might make for a lovely family vacation, it’s obvious that the lack of commitment to a program isn’t something that is born in college, but begins earlier in an athlete’s career and collective minds prior to the NIL and Portal nonsense that defines the college game today.
From Friday Night Lights to AGTG posts announcing transfers, it permeates the game at all levels today.
So question for the Refugees…is the sport fundamentally ruined from top to bottom now? Or has a fundamental flaw been made louder given the money and media that accentuates it today?
Discuss.
As if the Suckeyes needed another drop of money in their program, they’ve signed a corporate sponsorship with a bank.
Meanwhile, the BigXII is getting a million dollars per program for signing with a teenager’s energy drink. Coach Amazon Prime is exactly where he belongs, no?
Delta or Coca-Cola, you’re our only hope.
With recent news that freshman wunderkind Jared Curtis won’t be starting for Vanderbilt, and interesting option has come to light.
The Baltimore Ravens cut Pavia, the former Vanderbilt University star quarterback, on Thursday. The Ravens open full-squad training camp practices next Wednesday, so Pavia didn’t even make it to the start of camp.
That’s good.
And bad.
Both.
It’s probably the best timing for Pavia because he was a long shot to make the Baltimore roster anyway.
After going unselected in the 2026 NFL Draft, he is now free to sign with another NFL team before training camp begins, giving coaches a longer look as he competes for a roster spot.
If that’s not an option, one supposes Pavia can set his sights on maybe catching on with a CFL team that might have a QB need as a result of an injury. The CFL season runs through October.
But being cut at this stage is also a blow to Pavia because it says the team that showed the most interest in adding him after the draft, bringing him in for a workout and keeping him around the entire offseason, has decided he’s not good enough.
I keed, I keed. Kind of.
Imagine running an offense that leans heavily on the passing game and deciding to pay the most for a running back. No, that’s not a Mike Bobo decision…look no further than our Hillbilly friends up north to do just that.
That’s a lot of Dollywood money for a guy you’ll barely use. Might’ve been better invested in folding chairs and offensive linemen.
I’m sure we’ll be seeing him in the portal soon…and wearing an Ole Miss or Suckeye uniform before we know it.
Of all the opinions on Georgia’s offseason issues, this is certainly one of them.
“We laugh about the arrests and low graduation rate…”
With all due respect, no one is laughing about these things, except for rival fans, who then turn it into righteous indignation. This, mind you, coming from a Miami fan, the same Miami who covered up a serious traffic incident with star defensive player Reuben Bain:
Former Miami defensive end and 2026 NFL draft prospect Rueben Bain Jr. was involved in an auto accident in 2024 in which a passenger later died because of injuries sustained in the crash, according to a report published Sunday.
Bain was cited for careless driving for the accident that occurred at about 4 a.m. local time on March 17, 2024, on Interstate 95 northbound in Miami, according to documents obtained by The Read Optional.
The crash report alleges Bain was driving a 2021 Land Rover SUV that had three other passengers — fellow Hurricanes football players Wesley Bissainthe and Nyjalik Kelly, along with a 22-year-old Georgia woman, Destiny Betts. Bain’s vehicle rear-ended another car, veered into a concrete barrier, then ricocheted into another barrier before coming to a rest on the shoulder of the highway.
Betts was taken to Ryder Trauma Center in Miami, according to The Read Optional. The outlet reported that Betts was in a coma for nearly three months before she died from her injuries on June 13, 2024.
At some point, this is where the new sports media has to take a look at themselves and ask “what have we become”…when the time comes where Chip Towers looks like real integrity in journalism, we have a real deal shitposting problem.
And when it comes from fans of a program like Miami, where they are actively harnessing NIL to compromise the integrity of the sports by poaching every decent player they can find, all the while continuing to not even win their own worthless conference, you know we have a real deflection problem.
Here’s something for you.
Youth isn’t always a bad thing, unless you’re Curt Cignetti and your minimum age requirement for a transfer or recruit is the age of 25. I kid, kind of.
With the five for five deal in place, this will likely balance out over time, but it’s worth noting that there are several teams in here that are currently projected to be CFP participants at year’s end, and even portal heavy teams like Texass and TAMU, and especially Miami, are making this list, too.
For context, Georgia is ranked 8th in returning production with 68% (Notre Dame is first, with 72%), so 2026 will be a real litmus test for Kirby’s way in the NIL era, as well as his longstanding reputation as a player developer.
We’ll know soon enough how well that plays out.
This is unheard of, unless you’re talking about Kirby Smart…but we’re not…we’re talking about Georgia Baseball here.
Daniel Jackson will join Charlie Condon in Colorado, and was Georgia’s highest draft pick at number 37. The rest of the list:
Not a bad draft day…what remains to be seen is whether some of these Dawgs with remaining eligibility will take the MLB route or come back for another year of NIL. As an example, Phelps’ slotted value is $214k, and although NIL deals for Phelps aren’t publicly available, it’s estimated his NIL and sponsorships were in the seven figure range. Who knows if Buc-Ees will get involved with the team next year, either.
It’s just business, right?