NCAA Football 2023/2024 Season Catch All!

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I mean, it's time.

In the state of Missouri, a high school athlete who signs with an in-state college, such as the University of Missouri, can begin earning compensation for their name, image and likeness before enrolling at the school.

Soon in Texas, Texas A&M donors will earn priority points through the school’s fundraising arm for donations that eventually funnel to athletes. For months now in Arkansas, college athletes have been paid for charity appearances through a nonprofit organization that is owned by the school’s fundraising foundation.

Meanwhile, on the Florida Gulf Coast, where the SEC’s most powerful officials gather this week in Destin for their annual league meetings, none of the above is permitted. If the University of Florida carried out those actions, it would be in violation of NCAA rule and its own state law. The same can be said for a handful of other SEC schools in Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee.

“Right now, we’re in no-man’s land,” says Walker Jones, executive director of the Ole Miss collective, The Grove. “If you are the SEC office and you’ve got 14 schools and three are operating this way, it’s a competitive problem.”

Within the 11-state footprint of the country’s most dominant college football league, fairness is fading, swallowed by the greed of competition from the conference’s very own members. Through lobbying efforts, schools have worked with their state lawmakers to feverishly rewrite statutes to give them an advantage over neighboring programs.

New state laws adopted in Arkansas, Missouri, Texas and Oklahoma clear a path for their schools to bring NIL programs more under their proverbial roof while also prohibiting enforcement from the NCAA and others. This new evolution of NIL collectives tests NCAA and SEC governorship, risks federal rules violations and, maybe most important, pushes college sports another step closer to what many believe is an eventuality: Schools paying athletes directly.

And yet, despite the obvious issues, the movement is sweeping across the Southeast footprint with SEC speed.

“It reminds me of a rigged marketplace,” says Julie Sommer, a lawyer and expert on NIL matters who works for the Drake Group, an organization whose mission is to defend academic integrity at universities. “Federally funded institutions running these enterprises for private gain? The first big question is, what’s the IRS going to do?”

While debates over field storming and a future scheduling format have captured attention, SEC power brokers have a much more pressing issue at hand: the distribution of money to college athletes.

Prederick

Posted: September 24, 3:16 AM

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Prederick

Posted: September 24, 4:51 AM

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Auburn University.

Known hockey school.

*Legion*

Posted: September 24, 6:23 PM

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Coach whose team is not in the top 25: Deion Sanders

Coach whose team is in the top 25: Jeff Tedford

Stele

Posted: September 24, 7:13 PM

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Good for Fresno. And Kansas too.

Cards finally receiving more votes. Win at NCSU Friday and should be in

UpToIsomorphism

Posted: September 25, 12:44 AM

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Late, but suck it VT!

UpToIsomorphism

Posted: September 25, 10:45 AM

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And my wife would like to point out to all her ND alum friends that she learned to count to 11 at Ohio State.

firesloth

Posted: September 25, 3:30 PM

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UpToIsomorphism wrote:

And my wife would like to point out to all her ND alum friends that she learned to count to 11 at Ohio State.

Hahahaha...that is excellent. Esp. given all the signs I saw from ND folks about the relative quality of education.

*Legion*

Posted: September 25, 3:37 PM

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UpToIsomorphism wrote:

And my wife would like to point out to all her ND alum friends that she learned to count to 11 at Ohio State.

We even learned that at Fresno State. It was a senior level course, but still.

UpToIsomorphism

Posted: September 25, 4:58 PM

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MannishBoy

Posted: September 25, 6:19 PM

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UpToIsomorphism wrote:

Glove technology is too good these days.

MannishBoy

Posted: September 26, 12:48 AM

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Prederick

Posted: September 27, 6:43 PM

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I assume the lawyers got finished dotting the i's and crossing the t's, because Tucker is finally out at MSU.

Stele

Posted: September 30, 2:59 AM

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Cards 5-0 (3-0 ACC).

Bring on Notre Dame. 730 ABC next Sat night already sold out 2 days ago

Stele

Posted: September 30, 10:29 PM

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Is UGA ok?

Prederick

Posted: September 30, 10:39 PM

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USC is absolutely going to drop at least two games with that defense.

They're not going to go, like, 6-6, but I will happily bet there is no way in hell they come out of @ND/vs. Utah/vs. Washington/@Oregon undefeated.

At least two L's.

Badferret

Posted: September 30, 11:03 PM

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TGFBB!

Carlbear95

Posted: October 1, 12:54 AM

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U$C-Colorado was a 9am west coast kickoff, 10am local time? This is what we all wanted for realignment? I thought our 11am local kickoff at Ole Miss a few years ago was the earlier than normal.. this is just insane.

Carlbear95

Posted: October 1, 1:02 AM

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Also, Cal same record as Colorado now, but we have a conference win. Is Gameday showing up in Berkeley next week?

*Legion*

Posted: October 1, 6:09 PM

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Welcome to the top 25, Louisville.

Stele

Posted: October 1, 7:20 PM

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*Legion* wrote:

Welcome to the top 25, Louisville.

Thanks. Looks good for the primetime ABC game Saturday but we'll take it

Kentucky ranked too. Gonna need Georgia to get their sh*t together and fix that.

Side note, Cards and Cats had both never been 3-0 before, much less 5-0. Of course from 1994-2014 they played each other the first game of the season heh.

Badferret

Posted: October 2, 12:41 AM

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Stele wrote:

Kentucky ranked too. Gonna need Georgia to get their sh*t together and fix that.

I think the Dawgs will destroy the cats, and I'm not too worried about Georgia's struggles so far.

Beck has been fine. Bobo has been fine.

OL has not lived up to expectations but our starting RT is out for a few more weeks, and reshuffled right side of the line has not been crisp. Not horrible, just not very consistent.

Defense has been good but not elite. Turns out that Jalen Carter is a pretty impactful player. The DL/OLB have struggled setting the edge. Some of the 5 star young pups might supplant a starter or two by the end of the season.

Dawgs are young enough that they can fumble away one of these games and maybe miss the playoffs. They are also talented enough that if they gel, they could actually pull off the threepeat.

MannishBoy

Posted: October 2, 5:39 PM

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Prederick

Posted: October 5, 7:27 PM

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Almost certainly fake.

.........but GOD I wish it wasn't.

MannishBoy

Posted: October 6, 5:25 PM

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Prederick wrote:

Almost certainly fake.

.........but GOD I wish it wasn't.

Somebody do Florida man in jorts.

*Actually just remembered that was done with AI in that schedule announcement deal this summer.

MannishBoy

Posted: October 6, 5:37 PM

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My Vols are guaranteed not to lose this weekend. Next stretch of games is pretty tough though. A&M, Bama Kentucky, then a less threatening Uconn, followed by currently undefeated Missouri, then Georgia.

I could see three or four losses if our offense doesn't get more consistent. And we lost our most dependable experienced receiver in Bru McCoy to a horrific ankle injury last week.

Positives for the team? The good run game of last year is even better. Three studs. The D-Line seems significantly better on the backs of some young guys that are going to be around for a few years. We just got our center back after some surgery, and in Heupel's offense the center is very important for keeping the pace and calling protections, more so than most offenses.

Negatives: Spotty secondary (still), Milton not living up to the hype. He's OK, just doesn't seem to have command of the offense anywhere like Hooker did. O-Line has had a difficult time replacing the drafted guys from last year, especially with May's out at center up until last week. Lots of key injuries against South Carolina, but hopefully most but Bru can be back before A&M.