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House of cards. The Big XFL will probably start pruning the dead wood soon. College sports are on life support.

I doubt you see many non power 4 teams that aren't required to adding the schollies. That means that also have to commit to the revenue sharing with the players, except for the non power 4 there is no revenue to share. So this was a thinly veiled way to again tilt the playing field further toward the haves and put the have nots under their bootheels. At this rate the NCAA will be gone in less than a decade and college sports outside the power 4 will be an abyss. At this point sports are probably a money pit for the vast majority of schools, with little to show for it. Pretty sad.

Wonder how they can work that from a Title IX perspective, add 40+ for men and 19 for women, unless there are additions in other sports. More likely this will result in more schools dropping Olympic sports to support their fall XFL teams.

I just wish Brad would say what former UND guys have been offered, as there is no other reason for him to spend the time on this story.

If the Summit can keep improving and the Missouri Valley keeps losing name schools, might even be able to replace Arch Madness on the Eye itself.

Thus opens up a huge can of worms. Sane should they apply to band cheerleaders etc in the sporting realm but also teaching assistants and other positions doing actual work in support of the school academic mission. At some point I think you will see regular students start pushing back on this. They are paying for this stuff and student loans are at least partially attributable to sports costs.

We don't know that. The article says that some people at St. Thomas feared that CCHA could kick them up. That could just be projecting after the MIAC booting.

A good one?

I went to Matthews about 15 years ago and it had a very classic feel similar to Fenway. Sounds like maybe since then the goal was to let it fall apart to get a new facility. Watching a game from the balcony was like nothing else in college hockey. It will be missed.

Would guess it depends on who is filing. Not sure a coach could file the Title IX complaint on an individual firing, but team members potential could if there was a pattern of activity that created instability for women's sports that wasn't happening on the mens side. That seems like it could be pretty difficult to prove, but long shot lawsuits are certainly not rare.

Really sad. Thought he had conquered his demons with his comeback this year. Tragic story and painful reminder as mental health awareness month winds down. You never know what someone else is dealing with.

There is still title 9 and I think you start seeing taxpayers really question this at public schools. Pandora's box is now open and we'll see where it goes from here. This combined with the House settlement is earning the power 5 a lot of enemies.

a lot of the electricity goes to cooling. You can open the doors 8 months of the year in GF and accomplish that.

It's a mixed bag. Also a good way to have guys hurt at the end of the year, and if the focus is on tourney, think you need to be judicious and not necessarily jump in front of every shot.

MSU is in D2 for a reason. If they moved up they would certainly drop football a la Omaha as the dollars aren't there. Summit is most likely to pick WAC carcass or be destroyed itself. The number of viable move ups at this point is very small.

What do bemidji and mankato add to the nchc/summit hockey. No thanks. Western is a solid program that adds a good recruiting area. If Miami wants to leave I don't see an issue with negotiating a lower exit fee. Keeping a non competitive program does the league no good.

No, there will just be fewer guys on scholarship who don't play or barely play. This actually makes some sense. No reason for college teams to have rosters twice the size of NFL teams

You want be a pro athlete expect to be treated like one.

So does the Missouri Valley try to grab one of Oral Roberts, Omaha, or Kansas City? If one leaves, maybe there is something to the UNC and Utah school rumors, with the Summit creating a Mountain Time Zone block, that would give you two broadcast windows and more content, but also more schools splitting the pie. UNC and S. Utah would give 6 Summit football schools even without St. Thomas, giving them some time to ramp up. In the current environment, FBS makes no sense and would be creating a further money pit.

T wolves looking like the real deal. Sound defensively and Ant is legit.

They could try to get more at home and see how that goes.

coaches don't make these kind of decisions.

Won't be the last one. Gambling is a huge problem in sports.

The fact that these NIL collectives are needed should tell you that this is pretty much a ponzi scheme. If the players were creating so much revenue there would be money to pay them. But people don't think about the costs of facilities, travel, insurance etc. Sports are becoming a financial drain, with actual students paying a sizable cost and providing minor league sports at the expense of the academic mission of the school. There will be some sort of shock to the system soon, as it simply isn't sustainable