Kansas State is reportedly in the mix for yet another high-profile and expensive college basketball transfer, PJ Haggerty. This comes just one year after the Wildcats spent an exuberant amount of money for a player who was ultimately labeled as a bust on a team that failed to make the NCAA Tournament.

Will history repeat itself? I don’t think so but we are going to find out!

Haggerty has yet to play more than one season of college basketball at the same school. The 6-foot-3 point guard played only six games during his freshman year at TCU, averaged 21.2 points per game at Tulsa as a sophomore and most recently averaged 21.7 points per game at Memphis. Here is where it gets interesting.

As things currently stand, PJ Haggerty is somewhere in between a professional career and a return to college for a fourth season. He declared for the NBA Draft and shined at the NBA Draft Combine but he is also in the transfer portal. The deadline to decide on his future is currently set for May 28.

Haggerty is going to make more money through NIL as a redshirt junior than he would as a rookie in the NBA. His price tag hovers between $1-4 million.

He was asking for $4,000,000 when he first entered the transfer portal. However, the payday continues to decrease as more and more suitors drop out of the race. It seemed as though N.C. State was the only program remaining at the beginning of May so the Wolfpack only had to bid against itself. Not anymore!

According to Hitmen Hoops, Kansas State “has emerged as a serious contender” and “has the momentum” because it is willing to offer more money than North Carolina State.

Is this going to be deja vu all over again? The Wildcats paid approximately $2 million for one year of Coleman Hawkins, which immediately looked like wasted money. Although Hawkins ultimately got better as the year went on, he could not lead his team to the postseason and dealt with horrible abuse and death threats from fans throughout the entire disappointing season.

PJ Haggerty could be next. He will make a lot more money than Hawkins at either school so it could be really rough for him if he ultimately chooses to play for Kansas State and does not perform up to his paycheck. Wildcats fans are not going to tolerate another year of NIL failure. I don’t expect that to happen but we’ll see!

The College Football Playoff will go to a more straightforward way of filling the bracket next season, placing teams strictly on where they are ranked instead of moving pieces around to reward conference champions.

Ten conference commissioners and Notre Dame’s athletic director came to the unanimous agreement they needed Thursday to shift the model that drew complaints last season.

The new format was widely expected after last season’s jumbled bracket gave byes to Big 12 champion Arizona State and Mountain West champion Boise State, even though those teams were ranked ninth and 12th by the playoff selection committee.

That system made the rankings and the seedings in the tournament two different things and resulted in some matchups — for instance, the quarterfinal between top-ranked Oregon and eventual national champion Ohio State — that came earlier than they otherwise might have.

“After evaluating the first year of the 12-team Playoff, the CFP Management Committee felt it was in the best interest of the game to make this adjustment,” said Rich Clark, executive director of the CFP.

The five highest-ranked champions will still be guaranteed spots in the playoff, meaning it’s possible there could be a repeat of last season, when CFP No. 16 Clemson was seeded 12th in the bracket after winning the Atlantic Coast Conference.

Southeastern Conference commissioner Greg Sankey was among those who pushed for the change in the second year of the agreement, though he remained cautious about it being approved because of the unanimous vote needed.

Smaller conferences had a chance to use the seeding issue as leverage for the next set of negotiations, which will come after this season and could include an expansion to 14 teams and more guaranteed bids for certain leagues. The SEC and Big Ten will have the biggest say in those decisions.

As it stands, this will be the third different playoff system for college football in the span of three years. For the 10 years leading into last season’s inaugural 12-team playoff, the CFP was a four-team affair.

The news was first reported by ESPN, which last year signed a six-year, $7.8 billion deal to televise the expanded playoff.

— Eddie Pells, AP National Writer

Adrian Wojnarowski knows that if St. Bonaventure is going to make a run in the NCAA Tournament, it will likely require some magic.

It’s fair to wonder, however, whether such magic still even exists in the current climate of college athletics.

In an interview released on Thursday, Wojnarowski joined CNBC’s Alex Sherman for a wide-ranging conversation regarding his past life as an NBA insider and his new life as the Bonnies’ general manager. And when it comes to the state of the sport he’s now immersed in, the 56-year-old agreed that it’s in danger of losing some of what has made it so special come March.

“It does take away the magic,” Wojnarowski told Sherman of challenges that mid-major programs like his own currently face. “What you’re seeing right now is the Power Four conferences are really dictating the rules, the landscape. You’re seeing with this House settlement, it’s the Power Four leagues deciding the rules and how this is going to go. And all of that — literally — all of it is to benefit them.”

The idea of March Madness losing some of its luster was an especially common thought during this past season’s NCAA Tournament, which was largely chalk and ultimately resulted in just the second-ever Final Four only comprised of No. 1 seeds (the tournament’s ratings, however, did just fine). With factors like NIL and the transfer portal allowing the Power Four conferences to pluck the best players from mid-major programs, potential Cinderellas such as St. Bonaventure face an even steeper uphill climb than they already did.

Just eight months into the job, Wojnarowski has already seen it firsthand, with the Bonnies’ leading scorer from last season, combo guard Melvin Council Jr., subsequently transferring to Kansas for his senior campaign. Adrian Wojnarowski isn’t bitter; it’s just a reality of college athletics’ current climate. But it has helped inform his approach as his alma mater’s GM

“I tell our folks all the time, don’t wait around for legislation that’s going to come out to make it easier for us at St Bonaventure or St Joe’s in Philly in our league, or other comparable schools to ours,” Wojnarowski said. “We’ve got to understand who we are, what our pathway is to building teams. Because no one’s coming to rescue us.”

“It’s a challenge,” he continued. “But at the same time, I’m at St. Bonaventure because I believe we can do this.”

Earlier this month, Yahoo! Sports reporter Ross Dellenger reported that President Donald Trump planned on forming a presidential commission on college athletics. Now, Trump is reportedly putting his plans on pause. On3’s Pete Nakos provided more information on Trump’s decision.

“Donald Trump’s presidential commission on college sports has been paused,” Nakos wrote on X. “Expectation is commission will eventually be formed, but is being delayed as U.S. Senator Ted Cruz works to push through federal legislation.”

Trump’s commission was expected to specifically examine the role of NIL in college athletics. Dellenger’s initial report surfaced after Trump met with former Alabama head coach Nick Saban in Tuscaloosa and discussed the issue of NIL.

Saban and Texas Tech booster and billionaire Cody Campbell were expected to be co-chairs of the commission. However, since Dellenger’s report, Saban has clarified that he doesn’t believe forming a commission is the best move.

“I know there’s been a lot of stuff out there about some commission or whatever,” Saban said. “I don’t think we need a commission. I’ve said that before. I think we know what the issues are, we just have to have people that are willing to move those and solve those, create some solutions for some of those issues.”

U.S. Senator Ted Cruz has spearheaded Congress’ efforts to build federal legislation around NIL in college athletics. While Cruz has reportedly pushed for Trump to wait on forming the commission, Nakos reports that “Cody Campbell will continue to work behind the scenes for when the presidential commission is ready to move forward.”

It was previously reported that the commission had talked to each of the commissioners of the Power Four conferences. Moreover, Power Four sources told On3 that they were surprised by how quickly the commission was being formed.

If the commission on college sports follows the path of other presidential commissions, it would produce a report with potential solutions that Trump or Congress could act on. Earlier this month, the Wall Street Journal reported that Trump was exploring executive order options focused on NIL and college sports.

Now, it appears Trump will wait before taking any executive action on college athletics. He isn’t the only one on standby. The House v. NCAA settlement is yet to earn final approval from Judge Claudia Ann Wilken. Wilken’s approval would dramatically alter the future of NIL’s role in college athletics and usher in the era of revenue sharing.