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The top ten most-clicked jobs of the week...
#10: Yale: Associate AD of Business Operations
#9: Arkansas: Director of Business Intelligence
#8: La Salle: Associate AD for Compliance
#7: South Alabama: Senior Associate AD for Championship Resources
#6: James Madison: Senior Athletic Development Officer
#5: American: Associate Commissioner for Basketball
#4: UAB: Director of Athletics
#3: Collegiate Sports Connect: Customer Success Manager
#2: North Carolina: Assistant AD for Athletic Communications
#1: RefQuest: Chief Operating Officer
#10: Wake Forest has launched a dedicated website to promote the Heisman candidacy of QB Gio Lopez. Have a look. (link)
#9: Wofford AD Scott Kull weighs in on the proposal for an academic-year soccer model in response to Maryland HC Sasho Cirovski’s argument for it: “In the last 4 champs 16 College Cup berths went to 16 diff programs. That includes Furman, Vermont, Marshall, Denver, Creighton and Saint Louis. Evidence that reaching the nat semis isn't limited to the traditional ACC and Big 10 powers. This is your effort to minimize us.” (link)
#8: Florida is set to name Syracuse Senior Assoc. AD for Development Jordie Kindervarter as Executive Director of Gator Boosters, Inc., per CollegeAD, which notes TurnkeyZRG assisted with the search. (link)
#7: Chicago State Assoc. AD for Communications Robert Vogel has left the department. (link)
#6: Democrats won back control of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives in the midterm elections, securing an estimated 255 seats in the House, well beyond the 218 needed to become the majority party, according to NBC’s Scott Wong. (link); As for what it means for college sports, former Fox Sports President Bob Thompson offers one perspective: “[The Protect College Sports Act] had House issues before today. Those issues just got a whole lot worse today.” (link); Also of note, former Texas Tech/Auburn/Ole Miss Football HC Tommy Tuberville was elected as the new Governor of Alabama. (link)
#5: Widespread photos of sparsely attended college football stadiums at places including UCLA, Texas Tech, Penn State, and Maryland reflects a growing apathy toward the regular season, according to Sportico's Eben Novy-Williams, who argues the expansion of the College Football Playoff to 12 teams—and eventually 24 in 2027—has stripped the urgency from weekly matchups. Athletic departments are simultaneously raising ticket prices and increasing donation demands to fund impending athlete compensation models, creating a financial breaking point for attendees, Novy-Williams adds, cautioning that the combination of diluted stakes and rising costs threatens the long-term health of the sport: "There’s still time to right this ship, but it increasingly feels like we will look back on the 2020s as the time when college sports administrators fumbled the legal imperative to pay athletes and forever changed NCAA football for the worse." (link)
#4: The College Sports Commission has published aggregated and anonymized student-athlete compensation figures from the College Athlete Payment System (CAPS), which records rev-share payments from schools to student-athletes, and the NIL Go clearinghouse. During the first year of revenue sharing under the House settlement through June 30, 2026, the CSC recorded $1.77B in direct school-to-athlete payments in CAPS, while 46,478 NIL deals were cleared in NIL Go with an aggregate value of $582.49M through August 31, 2026. CSC CEO Bryan Seeley: “This is the first time compensation data of this kind has been published for college sports. The CSC is making this aggregated, anonymized information available to student-athletes, schools, and the public to help people make better informed decisions while preserving the confidentiality of individual agreements.” The report covers different ranges varying by sport and breaks down percentile-level institutional and non-institutional distributions across football position groups, men’s and women’s basketball and other varsity sports within the A4 leagues and for non-A4 institutions. Full NIL Go payment and school rev share compensation reports. (link, link)
#3: The College Football Playoff Selection Committee released the first set of rankings for this season. Miami (FL) tops the pack, followed by Georgia, Utah, Indiana, Alabama, Kentucky, Texas, UCLA, BYU, Ole Miss, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Tennessee, LSU, Texas Tech, Wake Forest, Houston, Missouri, Iowa, USC, South Carolina, Arizona, Oregon, Florida and Boise State. (link); Here’s everything Arkansas AD/Committee Chair Hunter Yurachek had to say about the rankings. (link)
#2: Forget “This is Sparta,” now it’s “This is the Pac-12” as the league unveils its new team trophy, featuring a “holdable shield” that's “built to be raised, carried and celebrated.” Check it out. (link)
#1: Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark will depart for an opportunity outside of college sports, effective January 31, 2027. Kansas Chancellor/Big 12 Board of Directors Chair Douglas Girod: “I think in all fairness, had he not joined us and convinced us to go early on re-doing our television deal, we all believe we could have ended up like the Pac-12 did, which was unable to get [a TV deal]. We certainly recognized that and believed it at the time. As it played out, it demonstrated it was the right move. His leadership and experience and network in the media world has continued to be extremely beneficial for us.” Girod to ESPN’s Pete Thamel on what the league needs in its next leader: “I'm going in very open-minded. I don't need a [Yormark] twin. I need someone who hopefully has some experience with campuses, and mostly is going to be an innovator and help us on that path of revenue diversification and thinking differently about how we conduct ourselves and be the tip of the spear in some of these changes.” (link)
