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IU football coach Curt Cignetti on Big Ten Network set at 2025 media day – The Daily Hoosier
Watch as IU football coach Curt Cignetti sat down for a live interview on the Big Ten Network set in connection with the 2025 conference media day. Cignetti led Indiana to an 11-2 season in 2024 and an appearance in the College Football Playoff. He won multiple national coach of the year honors. Indiana will […]

Watch as IU football coach Curt Cignetti sat down for a live interview on the Big Ten Network set in connection with the 2025 conference media day.
Cignetti led Indiana to an 11-2 season in 2024 and an appearance in the College Football Playoff. He won multiple national coach of the year honors.
Indiana will open the 2025 season on Aug. 30 against Old Dominion.
Video via the Big Ten Network.
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Mike Locksley’s tough NIL message in locker room
Maryland HC Mike Locksley commented on the influence of NIL, noting a new sign outside the locker room that reads: “You can leave your Louis [Vuitton] belts, your car keys, and your financial statements outside of this locker room.” 🤯 pic.twitter.com/kAxLAOIJaZ — College Transfer Portal (@CollegeFBPortal) July 22, 2025 The NIL era has brought unprecedented […]

The NIL era has brought unprecedented levels of professionalization to college sports, which can sometimes create rifts in locker rooms, as some players are more highly paid than others.
At Maryland, coach Mike Locksley has taken explicit steps to mitigate those concerns. Speaking at Big Ten media days on Tuesday, Locksley revealed that he has put up a strongly worded message to his players when they enter the locker room.
“If you come to Maryland and you look outside of our locker room, there’s a sign. And that sign reads: ‘You can leave your Louis (Vuitton) belts, your car keys and your financial statements outside of this locker room, because when enter those doors, we’ll all pay the same price for success or failure,” Locksley said.
The Terrapins are coming off a 4-8 season, the worst since Locksley’s first in 2019. He acknowledged that locker room issues played a role in the team unraveling last year, which partially stemmed from the new NIL landscape.
“I own the fact that I lost my locker room,” Locksley said, per ESPN. “And this is Coach Locks, the locker room king, telling you this landscape, I had to choose between paying young players who were coming in or reward the older players that have been through the fire, three bowl wins, and I tried to do both with limited resources. And that’s what you get: a locker room with the haves and have-nots.”
Whether Maryland can get back on track to the success of eight-win seasons in 2022 and 2023 remains to be seen, but it’s clear that Locksley is emphasizing unity in a changing college football world this season.
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Brad Brownell reveals that Radford “offered more” for transfer Del Jones
Clemson basketball fans got a healthy heaping of quotes from Brad Brownell on Tuesday as he spoke to the media, and he didn’t disappoint. Obviously the 2024-25 season ended on a sour note with the Tigers falling against McNeese in the first round, and they were forced to replace essentially the entire roster. Chase Hunter, […]

Clemson basketball fans got a healthy heaping of quotes from Brad Brownell on Tuesday as he spoke to the media, and he didn’t disappoint.
Obviously the 2024-25 season ended on a sour note with the Tigers falling against McNeese in the first round, and they were forced to replace essentially the entire roster. Chase Hunter, Viktor Lakhin, Ian Schieffelin, Jaeden Zackery, Chauncey Wiggins, and Del Jones were all key players who either entered the NBA Draft, graduated, transferred, or even joined the football team.
The Tigers were forced to hit the transfer portal hard and that’s exactly what Brownell did.
Unfortunately, his players did the same as one of his most intriguing first-year players decided to hop in the portal and look for a new home. Jones, a freshman guard, was expected to be the future of the backcourt, but he shockingly hit the portal and landed at Radford.
Brownell explained why that happened: Radford just offered more money.
Clemson coach Brad Brownell on guard Del Jones’ transfer to Radford, specifically, says it’s part of this new world of college basketball and money.
Radford just offered more.
“It’s gonna happen, it is what it is, it’s hard.”
— Jon Blau (@Jon_Blau) July 22, 2025
This is a tough pill to swallow for several reasons, but the most obvious has to be the fact that Radford out-bid Clemson for a key player. That should never happen, and it shows the monetary discrepancy between the basketball and football programs.
It’s not easy for those Clemson hoops fans and purists who believe the program should be among the best in the nation considering the resources the school has.
Radford just offered him more NIL money, and Clemson couldn’t match it because of their allotted pool for the team. He opted to make more money with a smaller program where he’ll undoubtedly be the star and play 30-plus minutes eventually. Jones was Radford’s top priority and Clemson just couldn’t match that.
Hopefully the Tigers can be big spenders on the hardwood in the near future.
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Brian Santiago’s leadership council built for new college era – Deseret News
This article was first published in the Cougar Insiders newsletter. Sign up to receive the newsletter in your inbox each week. BYU’s new athletic director Brian Santiago penciled in a new leadership council to lead the Cougar sports programs into the next decade, addressing promotions for stability and adding successful businessman Travis Hansen to the […]
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BYU’s new athletic director Brian Santiago penciled in a new leadership council to lead the Cougar sports programs into the next decade, addressing promotions for stability and adding successful businessman Travis Hansen to the fold.
The moves are designed to address challenges of NIL and revenue sharing as BYU doubled its athletic budget the past three years. The layers of leadership are to help Santiago find roles amongst a newly shuffled staff to take over many of his former duties. The hiring of Hansen is huge. BYU is lucky to have him onboard because he had NBA and college offers.

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In this piece, Tad Walch gained access to BYU’s top leadership and broke down what this chaotic world of money in athletics means for the Cougars in coming seasons. It is the most comprehensive explanation of the money you’ll find.
Question of the week
With Jake Retzlaff withdrawing and transferring to Tulane, where should BYU’s collective and revenue-sharing money that was targeted for Retzlaff be invested? Looking at On3 Sports evaluation of quarterbacks in the Big 12, TCU QB Josh Hoover is at $2.4 million, Kansas State’s Avery Johnson is at $1.6 million and ASU’s Sam Leavitt $3.1 million. It doesn’t take much imagination to place the money planned for Retzlaff at BYU at around $1 million for a returning senior starting QB.
Jay Drew: Longtime readers will know that if there is one general statement about college football that I have harped on for years, it is that by far the most important position in all of college sports, let alone football, is the quarterback. It doesn’t matter how good your defense is, if your quarterback is below average, eventually you will get scored upon.
Just look at Utah last year.
So that’s why I am saying that all the money invested in Jake Retzlaff should go to whichever QB earns the starting nod in 2025, be it McCae Hillstead, Treyson Bourget or the dark horse, Bear Bachmeier. Of those three, it is reasonably safe to assume that Bachmeier is making the most NIL money at the present time.
The former Stanford signee/spring practice participant didn’t come to BYU for free. But if he is as good as advertised, and wins the starting job either in fall camp or midway through the season, he deserves a pay raise.
Who will win the job? That’s the most-asked question now that we have learned Retzlaff is headed to Tulane (along with several other transfer portal quarterbacks). It should be an interesting August in New Orleans. As for the month in Provo, I’m thinking Hillstead is the front-runner — but don’t count out Bachmeier. He has the highest ceiling of the group.
Dick Harmon: While we don’t understand all the science of NIL and revenue sharing and BYU is very private, the remaining QB room at BYU is likely down the scale from what Retzlaff was due. BYU did not get Bear Bachmeier to come to Provo without an attractive offer a four-star QB who’d committed to Stanford would demand. So, it would appear Jake’s money should go to the starter. One could argue it should be split up, divided amongst the three. A starter in Game 1 might not be the starter of Game 4, so how do you assign Retzlaff’s money to the starter? Just do it?
This might be a dilemma reserved for later in the fall, or the season if allowed, but we’re assuming the contracts will be locked in before the season begins.
Another thought is that some of Retzlaff’s money could be given to QBs, but also divvied up between LJ Martin, Chase Roberts or a stud on defense like Isaiah Glasker or Jack Kelly. The NIL money, however, will likely go to whomever the NIL folks (collective) wants it to go to. Revenue sharing, however, is something new deputy Travis Hansen does have a say in as to where it will go and how much as he evaluates, compares and makes a recommendation to the AD.
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With top recruit AJ Dybantsa making headlines all over the world the past few weeks, he appeared on “BYU Sports Nation” and explained what his world has been like this summer. Seth Davis predicts Dybantsa’s class of recruits will be strongest and deepest in years.
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Comments from Deseret News readers:
This must really irritate the Y-haters (aka Uoobs). Back when BYU was independent, they still competed despite recruiting classes ranked in the 70s and 80s and no money. Now, as a member of the Big 12 with real funding and momentum, BYU is pulling in recruiting classes in the low 20s. The future’s looking bright.
— Wise-sage
Recruits want to play with a winner. BYU’s record and win over Colorado in the bowl game last season goes a long way. Utah has to prove themselves again after last season. Also, what is BYU offering transfers and recruits? Money still talks, and means a lot to young players. Utah has made big moves bringing in a new offensive guru and his star QB, we’ll see how that shakes out.
— Montgemryruss
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Illini Soccer Announces Full 2025 Schedule
Story Links CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Illinois soccer head coach Katie Hultin has announced the teams full schedule on Wednesday (July 23). The schedule features two exhibitions, 11 road contests and seven home matches in Demirjian Park. The Fighting Illini prepare for the regular season with a pair of exhibition matches, the […]

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Illinois soccer head coach Katie Hultin has announced the teams full schedule on Wednesday (July 23). The schedule features two exhibitions, 11 road contests and seven home matches in Demirjian Park.
The Fighting Illini prepare for the regular season with a pair of exhibition matches, the first against Marquette at home on Aug. 7 and the next on the road at IU Indianapolis on Aug. 10.
The Orange and Blue begin the regular season with two road trips. First, a trip up north to Chicago to take on UIC in the season opener on Aug. 14 before they head east to face the Bowling Green Falcons on Aug. 17.
Illinois’ home opener will be on Aug. 25 against Boston College before their three-match road trip beginning with DePaul on Aug. 28, Kentucky on Aug. 31 and ending with Missouri on Sept. 4.
The Illini close out non-conference play with a home match against Valparaiso on Sept. 7. The first Big Ten test comes at home on Sept. 12 when Indiana makes a trip into Demirjian Park.
The following weekend the Fighting Illini travel out west to Oregon on Sept. 18, a match that will be on BTN, and to Washington on Sept. 21.
They return home to play Penn State on Sept. 25 and Ohio State three days later on Sept. 28. Their next road contest is at Maryland on Oct. 5 before they finish out their home slate with Rutgers on Oct. 9 and Purdue on Oct. 12.
The Orange and Blue end their regular season with a three-match road trip that starts at Northwestern on Oct. 16, they then travel northeast to Michigan State on Oct. 19 and end their regular season at Michigan on Oct. 26.
2025 ILLINOIS SOCCER SCHEDULE
All Times Central
Thursday, Aug. 7 – vs. Marquette (Exh.) – 6 PM
Sunday, Aug. 10 – at IU Indy (Exh.) – 1 PM
Thursday, Aug. 14 – at UIC – 6 PM
Sunday, Aug. 17 – at Bowling Green – 1 PM
Monday, Aug. 25 – vs. Boston College – 6 PM
Thursday, Aug. 28 – at DePaul – 4 PM
Sunday, Aug. 31 – at Kentucky – 1 PM
Thursday, Sept. 4 – at Missouri – 7 PM
Sunday, Sept. 7 – at Valparaiso – 1 PM
Friday, Sept. 12 – vs. Indiana – 6 PM
Thursday, Sept. 18 – at Oregon – 8 PM
Sunday, Sept. 21 – at Washington – 3 PM
Thursday, Sept 25 – vs. Penn State – 7 PM
Sunday, Sept. 28 – vs. Ohio State – 1 PM
Sunday, Oct. 5 – at Maryland – 11 AM
Thursday, Oct. 9 – vs. Rutgers – 7 PM
Sunday, Oct. 12 – vs. Purdue – 1 PM
Thursday, Oct. 16 – at Northwestern – 6:30 PM
Sunday, Oct. 19 – at Michigan State – 12 PM
Sunday, Oct. 26 – at Michigan – 12 PM
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NCAA Reaches Deal Regarding NIL Collectives: The Buzz
If you thought NIL collectives were gone after the recent NCAA house settlement came to a semi-conclusion, you were absolutely wrong. A recent On3 report stated that NCAA officials came to some sort of agreement with power conferences that will make an impact on the use of NIL collectives and their ability to pay athletes. […]

If you thought NIL collectives were gone after the recent NCAA house settlement came to a semi-conclusion, you were absolutely wrong.
A recent On3 report stated that NCAA officials came to some sort of agreement with power conferences that will make an impact on the use of NIL collectives and their ability to pay athletes. This decision comes after the settlement made it clear that collectives would be done and any player payment would be filtered through the College Sports Commission.
House attorneys have reached a deal with the power conferences and NCAA officials that will alter the College Sports Commission relating to how NIL collectives can pay athletes, per @RossDellenger
The CSC is expected to treat collectives in a similar fashion as other businesses.… pic.twitter.com/cL0VenPv4c
— On3 NIL (@On3NIL) July 22, 2025
So, what does that mean?
Well, in simple terms, it’s very possible that everyone’s favorite NIL collectives that help power conference programs fund major recruiting commitments may not be going away. This was a major cause of debate and led many to believe that collectives made the playing field uneven, allowing the best teams to land the best players continuously.
For the Tigers, the Every True Tiger fund was utilized for that same purpose. Its current status is unknown, but it could continue to make an impact for Missouri athletes if this truly comes to fruition.
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