There’s a massive contradiction playing out in major college sports. Administrators are worried about money as they prepare to begin sharing revenue with players. “We have to make challenging financial decisions at Alabama every single year,” Crimson Tide athletic director Greg Byrne said. “So if we have to do that, don’t you think most everybody else does, too?” Of course. But how, then, do ...
When James Franklin began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Kutztown University in 1995, college football – and athletics in general – looked very different. Players who chose to transfer had to sit out one season. Recruiting was more seasonal than a year-round endeavor. No one had heard of Name, Image and Likeness. If college athletes were paid, it was against the rules and done ...
Jun. 6—Maybe a couple of New Mexico Bowl tickets would be a good stocking stuffer this year. For the first time in the 19-year history of the state's annual college football bowl game, hosted each December in Albuquerque, the bowl game will be taking place after Christmas. Due to some reshuffling of the traditional bowl season schedule due to the expanded 12-game College Football Playoffs, ...
Four-star athlete Derrek Cooper committed to Georgia on Thursday.