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Old Dominion introduced Tim House as the university's sixth AD and Monarchs President Brian Hemphill cited House's revenue generation background and competitive drive as key factors in the hire: "He is a proven athletic administrator, a strong leader, a fundraiser, and a revenue generator. He has built a career working tirelessly behind the scenes so that student athletes, coaches, and staff can shine their very brightest on the very biggest stages." Takeaways from House…

ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips caught up with The Mercury News' Jon Wilner to talk about Stanford and Cal after three years in the league: “Without question, there’s a commitment to football. When you hire Ron Rivera and when you hire Andrew Luck, to me, that’s an emphatic statement that they are paying attention to football. Both of them are all-in on sports. They are finding a way to support their teams and coaches. … All our schools go through transition periods, whether it’s coaching changes or administrative changes, changes with presidents and athletic directors, changes in funding.” Phillips acknowledges that “what I want us to do is to continue assessing how we can help [Cal and Stanford] from a travel standpoint. That’s something we talk about not only annually but throughout the year. For the (ACC) legacy schools, the trips west aren’t as often. In football, it’s once every other year. In basketball, you play two games and go back. But for Cal and Stanford, there’s more cadence, like in baseball. I want us to continue to be really thoughtful in how we’re scheduling.” (link)

Wake Forest AD John Currie addressed reporters ahead of Friday's football matchup with Miami (FL) and covered topics including federal legislation, facility development, athletic department finances and more. Here are the main points…

The Athletic’s Scott Dochterman writes on the uptick in international football games as Arizona State and Kansas tussled in London last Saturday. As far as other leagues’ plans to play across the pond, Big Ten COO Kerry Kenny explains: “There’s some benefit to the Big Ten diaspora with how many fans are across Europe and other areas of the world where obviously you want to meet your fans where they are and be strategic about how you do that. (NFL and other college games) are all data points that we need to study before figuring out whether or not just moving a game over there for the splashy headline of moving a game makes the most sense.” While the ACC doesn’t directly advocate for international games, it does help facilitate all neutral-site contests and coordinate logistics. ACC SVP for Football Michael Strickland adds: “We give them a lot of guidance of what their proposal should look like. If we feel like it’s worthy of being passed along, then more times than not we do because we want to be transparent with our membership.” (link)

North Alabama inaugurated Bank Independent Stadium by defeating Alcorn State on Saturday, and Lions AD Josh Looney remarked on the atmosphere: “What energy from this community. The amount of people that have been here a long time told me they had tears in their eyes at some point during this game — some told me multiple times during the game — which is really cool. I’ve been here five years and it’s amazing to see that. I can’t imagine the people that’ve been waiting five decades for this night, and it delivered.” (link); Check out the festivities outside the stadium leading up to kickoff. (link, link)

More from new UCLA AD Tim Harris with the California Post’s Ben Bolch as Harris says the key to financial sustainability is in securing a robust season-ticket base: “It’s why the Lakers were so successful because we started out sold out of season tickets, you know, every year. It is a huge relief when you have that going in because tickets are the portal to everything because a ticket is the ultimate expression of interest. If you can sell tickets, you can sell sponsorships. If you’re selling tickets, you’re gonna get social media engagement. If you’re selling tickets, donors are paying attention. It’s the ultimate expression.” (link)

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ESPN College GameDay is heading to Knoxville, where Tennessee will host Texas on Saturday. (link)

The Illinois Board of Trustees approved a new six-year contract for Women’s Basketball HC Shauna Green that includes a $1.2M signing bonus and a four-year non-compete clause covering NCAA and WNBA teams, according to the Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner. The agreement increases Green's annual retention pay from $200K to $225K and raises her average annual salary by $117.5K across the guaranteed six years. The deal can extend up to 10 years—adding $50K in compensation per extension—if the program reaches four NCAA Tournaments over six years, and Werner notes: “The non-compete clause means Green isn't going anywhere for the next four seasons, allowing the Illini to continue to build on an amazing resurgence in Green's first four seasons, and she gets a big signing bonus and a solid annual pay bump in return.” (link)

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Florida State has acquired a Noah Basketball Pro shooting system thanks to a donation from alumnus Brian Cauthen. (link)

DraftKings utilized machine learning to identify and target unprofitable customers with increased promotional incentives, according to a New York Times investigation by Alex Klavens, Walt Bogdanich, and Jenny Vrentas. The online gambling giant, which reported $8.7B in gross revenue and distributed roughly $3B in promotions last year, deployed an internal data science team to build an "elasticity" model that analyzed dozens of variables—including betting frequency, daily account balances, and loss-to-wager ratios—to isolate bettors most likely to respond to free bets and bonuses by losing more money. The platform then prioritized its promotional spend toward those elastic losers while simultaneously sidelining a separate data science project designed to build predictive models that would proactively flag customers exhibiting signs of problem gambling. Despite multiple former employees raising concerns over the predatory nature of the targeted incentives, DraftKings Chief Responsible Gaming Officer Lori Kalani defended the strategy: "It’s a marketing tool that every company out there uses. ... Customers who are betting within their means, are betting for entertainment and betting for fun. ... Shopping can be problematic for people." (link)

Sun Belt Commissioner Keith Gill joined the SportsWise Podcast with Gabe Feldman to discuss potential College Football Playoff expansion, conference-level governance, federal athletics legislation, the operational implications of athlete employee status and more. Here are some takeaways…

Towson AD Steve Eigenbrot with an op-ed in Sports Business Journal, argues college athletics faces a "governance paradox" as regulatory authority shifts toward conferences while member institutions retain zero-sum incentives to maximize individual competitive advantages. Citing the SEC's legal dispute with LSU, alongside state-level tax exemptions for NIL payments in Arkansas, Eigenbrot believes conference commissioners must be granted broader executive authority—similar to professional sports leagues—to enforce spending discipline and preserve competitive balance in the absence of federal intervention: "The conference commissioner may not have been hired to govern the ecosystem. But without a national solution, there may be no one else positioned to try. Perhaps conference commissioners really are our next best hope to save us from ourselves." (link)

Arkansas AD Hunter Yurachek to ESPN’s Taylor McGregor prior to yesterday’s football game responds to the resolution by the Arkansas Board of Trustees to review the state of competitiveness of Razorback athletics: “I don’t have any because I have yet to talk to the board of trustees or the president about what this statement means.” (link); Hogs Football HC Ryan Silverfield earlier this week in a radio interview: “When I got here, the salary — I hate to say that, I shouldn’t say that — but the amount of money for the 2026 roster was already set. It is what it is, and there was no changing that. Some of these schools will say, ‘Okay, hey, we’ll keep raising the money for this roster even though we spent money we didn’t have.’ Whereas we say, ‘Okay, here’s the money you have set aside and that’s what you have.” (link)

Meanwhile, Arkansas Men’s Basketball HC John Calipari voiced his support for Razorbacks AD Hunter Yurachek, remarking that “Hunter's been a great partner and given us tools to go out and get the No. 1 recruiting class in the country, and our postseason success has been there because of his support. … [Yurachek] has also had to make some tough decisions, like reseating, which has generated more revenue so we can participate in revenue sharing at the highest level. With these type of decisions, Hunter has been unbelievable in making sure this university and athletic department is stable moving forward." (link)

Kentucky AD J Batt updates KSR’s Jack Pilgrim on the Cats jersey patch progress for hoops: “What I’d say is we’ve had a tremendous interest. Part of what we get to do, because we have so much momentum, is be a little bit choosy. So it’s so important to us that, particularly on that sacred piece of cloth, that we have the right partner.” (link)

Arizona State AD Graham Rossini to JohnCanzano.com’s eponymous publisher before yesterday’s kick with Kansas in London on leveraging football performance for commercial momentum: "It definitely is a catalyst for more. Over the last three or four years, certainly since [HC] Kenny [Dillingham] got here and throughout kind of our maturation as a department, we're just trying to stack those wins. We're just trying to build this momentum where there's a trend line and there's a progression to how we operate. ... The CFP and the Big 12 Championship in football [gave us] a good sense of what we're capable of. Now we’ve got to repeat that. We’ve got to continue to go down the road of bringing more people in, generating resources, finding these connection points that we're reinvesting into the talent in our space and then start to do that with more regularity.” (link)

Clemson lecturer/College Sports Research Institute Executive Director Chris Corr argues in a Sportico op-ed that labor organizers seeking collective bargaining in college sports should target athlete agents rather than relying on short-tenured student-athletes. With post-House settlement revenue sharing and NIL elevating college compensation, Corr points out that agencies hold a long-term economic incentive to stabilize the market. Unlike professional unions such as the NFLPA and WNBPA that regulate representatives, uncertified college agents can take 20-30% commissions, though the Protect College Sports Act proposes capping fees at 5%. Corr adds: "Players should not be expected to build that infrastructure alone. The people already sitting beside them in living rooms, negotiating their compensation, evaluating transfer opportunities and advising them whether to remain in college or turn professional may be the most underutilized constituency in the college-athlete labor movement. If organizers want collective bargaining to move from an argument about what college sports ought to become to an institution capable of actually changing it, they should stop merely trying to engage and mobilize the athletes. They should start organizing the agents." (link)

Fox Sports broadcaster Tim Brando believes the role of the Sports Information Director has changed, telling Cellini & Domino of Atlanta’s 680 The Fan: “What has happened is the sports information people used to be respected by their head coaches. And now, they’re not. They all have operations people. The SIDs have to go through the operations guys to get close to the coaches themselves. Years ago, we had SIDs that were legends. Tennessee, you had Bud Ford, one of the most respected men in sports information history. Roger Valdiserri at Notre Dame. Paul Manasseh at LSU. I could run through the litany of big names that were SIDs. Then suddenly the schools started to pay less, hire children basically—kids coming right out that had been associates and assistants. And now they’re all scared of the coaches for the most part.” (link)

Former Colorado Senior Assoc. AD for Business Operations/CFO Cory Hilliard admitted to misusing funds related to his administration of the university’s Nike Elite program in an internal university audit prior to his hiring as USA Swimming CFO in December 2025, per USA Today’s Brent Schrotenboer. Hilliard faces criminal charges for allegedly overspending his annual Nike gear allotment by $9,500 from 2022-25, taking advantage of his administrative access to place 59 personal orders, totaling $6,011 over his allotted limit in FY25 alone. Former Buffaloes AD Rick George alerted auditors to the discrepancy in July 2025, precipitating Hilliard's departure from the university and his subsequent resignation from USA Swimming following an August 2026 arrest. When asked by auditors why he overspent his designated allotment, Hilliard said he did so because he had access to the excess funds and it was an error and a misjudgment. He then said, “I did it. I admit it.” (link)

Georgia AD Josh Brooks received the maximum allowable contract bonus of $400K after last season, $200K for UGA finishing in the Learfield Directors’ Cup top 10, $100K for all Bulldog teams finishing with four-year APR scores of 930 or greater and $100K for achieving an overall average student GPA of 3.25-or-higher (finished at 3.28 overall). That’s according to an amendment to the extended deal Brooks signed back on December 24, 2025, per the Athens Banner-Herald’s Marc Weiszer. (link, link)

The SWAC is expanding its digital footprint with the launch of a free, ad-supported streaming television (FAST) channel for SWAC TV, managed in partnership with Triple B Media. The dedicated network will distribute live athletic events and original content across major streaming services including Prime Video, Plex, Xumo Play, Amazon Fire TV, Google TV, and Dingo TV without a paywall. (link)

Prediction markets Polymarket and Kalshi are embedding themselves into traditional news media through data-sharing agreements with Dow Jones, Substack, CNN, CNBC, and Fox Corp, with market data now integrated across 25% of the top communications companies in the S&P 500. Wired’s Katie Knibbs points out that “financial services companies have jumped into the media sector before, most obviously Bloomberg, which initially focused on providing market data and financial analytics before expanding to include journalism products.” Knibbs also observes that as regulatory battles continue over whether prediction markets operate as financial exchanges or gambling platforms, both companies are leveraging editorial distribution, podcasting, and media partnerships to boost public credibility and diversify revenue streams, as evidenced by Polymarket Founder Shayne Coplan bringing on Nate Silver as an adviser and Meta evaluating prediction market features. Kalshi spokesperson Jack Such: "Given the forecasting success of the markets, it's clear there is informational value. And three out of four users don't trade, which suggests the informational use case is popular enough to be taken very seriously." (link)

The share of the high school graduating class of 2025 immediately enrolling in college increased slightly across all economic backgrounds, according to data released Thursday by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Per Higher Ed Dive’s Laura Spitalniak, post-graduation fall enrollment at low-poverty high schools rose to 73.9%, up from 73.1% in 2024, while immediate enrollment for high-poverty high school graduates reached 51.2% (up from 50.8%). College persistence rates among high-poverty high school graduates also improved for the class of 2023, climbing to 76% (up from 74.3%), and to 90.6% (up from 89.4%) among low-poverty graduates. Additionally, the share of high-poverty high school graduates enrolling in college within two years grew by 2.1 percentage points to 58.7% for the class of 2023, with urban high schools showing the largest two-year enrollment gain at 67.1%. (link)

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