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LSU Baseball Lands Commitment From Coveted Louisiana Native in Transfer Portal

Jay Johnson and the LSU Tigers have landed a commitment from Kansas State infielder Seth Dardar, he revealed via social media on Sunday. Dardar, a Louisiana native, began his career at Columbia prior to making the move to join the Kansas State Wildcats. During the 2025 season, he logged a team best .326 batting average […]

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LSU Baseball Lands Commitment From Coveted Louisiana Native in Transfer Portal

Jay Johnson and the LSU Tigers have landed a commitment from Kansas State infielder Seth Dardar, he revealed via social media on Sunday.

Dardar, a Louisiana native, began his career at Columbia prior to making the move to join the Kansas State Wildcats.

During the 2025 season, he logged a team best .326 batting average with 18 doubles and a 1.065 OPS.

A consistent hitter, Dardar tallied 60 hits, 45 RBI and 13 home runs last season for his Wildcats squad.

The New Orleans (La.) Holy Cross standout started in 50 games for Kansas State on his way to becoming a coveted transfer in the portal.

Now, he’s made his move. Dardar will head home to suit up for the Bayou Bengals in his final season of eligibility.

Dardar took to social media to reveal his announcement:

“First and foremost I want to thank Kansas State University and the entire coaching staff for affording me the opportunity to make memories and friendships this year that will last a lifetime. To the Manhattan community and K-State fan base, thank you for taking me in and making me feel at home.

“The overwhelming support and love I felt from everyone at Kansas State is something I will cherish forever.

“With that being said, I have decided to come home and live out my dream to play at Louisiana State University! Thank you to everyone who was a part of my journey that has led me to this position, and thank you Coach Johnson, Coach Jordan, and the rest of the LSU staff for giving me the opportunity to live out this dream. Geaux Tigers!!!”

Dardar is the second Transfer Portal addition for the LSU Tigers after adding High Point star Brayden Simpson last week.

The Transfer Addition: Brayden Simpson

Simpson, one of the top prospects in the NCAA Transfer Portal, is coming off of a career season for High Point.

The coveted infielder primarily handled business as a third baseman for High Point this past season where he shined for his Panthers squad..

Simpson had a dominant two-year stretch at High Point with his 2025 campaign quickly putting his name on the map.

He rounded out the season batting .389 with 22 home runs, 77 RBI and a .477 on base percentage this past season.

Simpson is a Swiss Army Knife in the infield and has also spent some time at first base in 2024 and second base in 2023. 

In 2024, the talented High Point transfer started in all 62 games where he batted .300 with 12 home runs and 45 RBI. He started in 58 games this year.

With the likely departure of star infielder Daniel Dickinson and multiple veteran infielders this offseason, Johnson and Co. go into the Transfer Portal and immediately make a splash.

Simpson revealed a commitment to the LSU Tigers last Friday with Johnson continuing to recruit at an elite level during his time in Baton Rouge.

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Sankey discusses SEC’s role in future College Football Playoff structure at media days

Commissioner Greg Sankey opened SEC Football Media Days on Monday by giving a shoutout to the city of Atlanta for hosting the unofficial kickoff event and noting his gratitude for the conference’s newest sponsor in Wayne-Sanderson Farms. He quickly pivoted into a monologue about how strong he believes each member institution is on the field […]

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Commissioner Greg Sankey opened SEC Football Media Days on Monday by giving a shoutout to the city of Atlanta for hosting the unofficial kickoff event and noting his gratitude for the conference’s newest sponsor in Wayne-Sanderson Farms. He quickly pivoted into a monologue about how strong he believes each member institution is on the field while discussing some of the off-field headlines that have taken the college football world by storm this summer.

Sankey subtly addressed rumors that the SEC might pull away from the NCAA if the governing body slips up when managing the College Football Playoff or name, image, and likeness (NIL) issues and revenue sharing. Using a marathon as a metaphor, he said the “messy” days of paying athletes are starting to simmer down after a recent federal settlement and believes the best of the race is ahead.

“I have run and finished 41 marathons in my lifetime. It’s been a while, but I do remember the importance of getting it off to the right kind of start,” Sankey said. “We’re in the middle of change, and in the middle of anything significant, it will get messy. This doesn’t mean you leave. In a marathon, it doesn’t mean you step off the course because myself — as poorly as I may have felt sometimes after two or three miles – recall that those moments might actually produce the best efforts.”

The rest of the race could include the conference’s role in controlling how future College Football Playoff brackets look. According to Sankey, the SEC and Big Ten have “authority” when it comes to the format after the 2025 season.

However, Sankey and Big Ten Commissioner Tony Petitti are not currently aligned to pack the most powerful punch – not for a lack of communication, though, as Sankey noted they spoke four times last week.

“I think there’s this notion that there has to be this magic moment and something has to happen with expansion and it has to be forced – no,” Sankey said. “When you’re given authority, you want to be responsible in using that authority. I think both of us are prepared to do so. The upfront responsibility in this, maybe where some of the confusion lies, is we have the ability to present a format or format ideas, gather information, see if we can all agree within that room. We don’t need unanimity.”

The Big Ten, which has won the last two national championships, favors a 4-4-2-2-1 format, giving four automatic bids to the SEC and Big Ten and awarding the ACC and Big 12 two bids apiece. The SEC switched gears at its spring meetings in Florida, now favoring five conference champions and 11 at-large bids, which would presumably favor the top conferences most seasons.

The commissioner, now in his 10th year leading the SEC, backed up such authoritative statements with on-field evidence of his conference’s domination.

“For the 26th consecutive season, we led the nation in football attendance,” Sankey said, pointing to the league’s gridiron success against non-conference Power Four opponents. “It’s a special place with a remarkable set of people, remarkable competition, and remarkable achievements.”

Beyond backing up the SEC’s status as a “super conference,” Sankey also pointed to what he believes is a need for further structure in college athletics to be established by federal lawmakers. Specifically, Sankey referenced the recently introduced the SCORE Act, a U.S. House bill that provides for a national framework for NIL in college sports. The commissioner sees the policy proposal as progress.

“That’s an important moment,” Sankey said. “I think what’s happening in college athletics is a nonpartisan issue, but using the typical nomenclature, to have members of both of our major political parties willing to step out and introduce the SCORE Act is a positive step.”

While Sankey and other administrators work to straighten out the details that will determine college football’s long-term future, the student-athletes and coaches aim to return the SEC to the top of the game’s mountain at year’s end. After Ohio State claimed the 2024 national title, 2023-2024 became the first two-year stretch since 2013-2014 that an SEC team did not win the national championship.

Each of the SEC’s 16 programs will kickoff the 2025 season in late August.



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Two Wildcats Taken on Final Day of 2025 MLB Draft

MANHATTAN, Kan. – K-State saw two baseball players selected on the final day of the 2025 Major League Baseball Draft, as shortstop Maximus Martin and left-handed pitcher Jacob Frost heard their names called on Monday.   Martin was selected in the 10th round by the Boston Red Sox with the 298th overall pick, followed by […]

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MANHATTAN, Kan. – K-State saw two baseball players selected on the final day of the 2025 Major League Baseball Draft, as shortstop Maximus Martin and left-handed pitcher Jacob Frost heard their names called on Monday.
 
Martin was selected in the 10th round by the Boston Red Sox with the 298th overall pick, followed by Frost, who was taken with the 315th pick by the Los Angeles Dodgers to close out the round. Martin becomes just the second Wildcat ever drafted by the Red Sox, joining Robert Youngdahl (2011), while Frost is the ninth player in program history selected by the Dodgers.
 
Under seventh-year head coach Pete Hughes, K-State has had 12 players selected within the first 10 rounds. In total, Hughes has overseen 91 players selected in the MLB Draft, including eight first-rounders during his 28 seasons as a head coach while he has recruited 145 players who have gone on to play professionally.
 
In his first season at K-State, Martin earned ABCA/Rawlings First Team All-Region honors and was named Second Team All-Big 12. A native of Edgewater Park, New Jersey, he slashed .320/.420/.612, tallying a team-high 18 doubles and 14 home runs – tied for fourth-most in a single season in program history.
 
Martin was one of the league’s top offensive performers, finishing the regular season ranked in the Big 12’s top 10 in three statistical categories. He garnered both Golden Spikes Award and National Shortstop of the Week recognition. He led the team with 18 games with two or more hits and ranked second with 15 multi-RBI games.
 
Frost caps his second season with the Cats where earned his first All-Big 12 accolade in 2025, striking out 75 batters while holding opponents to a .238 batting average – the eighth-best mark in the league. The St. Louis, Missouri, product was one of two K-State pitchers to record 10 or more strikeouts in a single game this season, notching a career-high 10 against KU. He also led the Big 12 with 22 strikeouts looking in conference play.
 
Across two seasons with the Wildcats, Frost posted a 4-6 record with a 6.49 ERA and totaled 115 strikeouts over 32 appearances and 23 starts, including three quality starts. In 2024, he helped lead K-State to its ninth no-hitter in program history.



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Argument over ‘valid buisiness purpose’ for NIL collectives threatens college sports settlement | National Sports

Less than two weeks after terms of a multibillion-dollar college sports settlement went into effect, friction erupted over the definition of a “valid business purpose” that collectives making name, image likeness payments to players are supposed to have. The new College Sports Commission sent a letter to athletic directors last week saying it was rejecting […]

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Less than two weeks after terms of a multibillion-dollar college sports settlement went into effect, friction erupted over the definition of a “valid business purpose” that collectives making name, image likeness payments to players are supposed to have.

The new College Sports Commission sent a letter to athletic directors last week saying it was rejecting deals in which players were receiving money from collectives that were created solely to pay them and don’t provide goods or services to the general public for profit.

A lead attorney for the players responded by saying those instructions went against settlement terms and asking the CSC to rescind the guidance.

“This process is undermined when the CSC goes off the reservation and issues directions to the schools that are not consistent with the Settlement Agreement terms,” attorney Jeffrey Kessler wrote to NCAA outside counsel Rakesh Kilaru in a letter obtained by The Associated Press.

Yahoo Sports first reported details of the letter, in which Kessler threatens to take the issue to a judge assigned with resolving disputes involved in the settlement.

Kessler told AP his firm was not commenting on the contents of the letter, and Kilaru did not immediately respond to AP’s request for a comment.

Yahoo quoted a CSC spokesman as saying the parties are working to resolve differences and that “the guidance issued by the College Sports Commission … is entirely consistent with the House settlement and the rules that have been agreed upon with class counsel.”

When NIL payments became allowed in 2021, boosters formed so-called “collectives” that were closely tied to universities to work out contracts with the players, who still weren’t allowed to be paid directly by the schools.

Terms of the House settlement allow schools to make the payments now, but keep the idea of outside payments from collectives, which have to be approved by the CSC if they are worth $600 or more.

The CSC, in its letter last week, explained that if a collective reaches a deal, for instance, for an athlete to appear on behalf of the collective, which charges an admission fee, that collective does not have a “valid business purpose” because the purpose of the event is to raise money to pay athletes, not to provide goods or services available to the general public for profit.

Another example of a disallowed deal was one an athlete makes to sell merchandise to raise money to pay that player because, the CSC guidance said, the purpose of “selling merchandise is to raise money to pay that student-athlete and potentially other student-athletes at a particular school or schools, which is not a valid business purpose.”

Kessler’s letter notes that the “valid business purpose” rule was designed to ensure athletes were not simply being paid to play, and did not prohibit NIL collectives from paying athletes for the type of deals described above.

To prevent those payments “would be to create a new prohibition on payments by a NIL collective that is not provided for or contemplated by the Settlement Agreement, causing injury to the class members who should be free to receive those payments,” Kessler wrote.


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Less than two weeks after terms of a multibillion-dollar college sports settlement went into effect, friction erupted over the definition of a “valid business purpose” that collectives making name, image likeness payments to players are supposed to have. The new College Sports Commission sent a letter to athletic directors last week saying it was rejecting […]

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Less than two weeks after terms of a multibillion-dollar college sports settlement went into effect, friction erupted over the definition of a “valid business purpose” that collectives making name, image likeness payments to players are supposed to have.

The new College Sports Commission sent a letter to athletic directors last week saying it was rejecting deals in which players were receiving money from collectives that were created solely to pay them and don’t provide goods or services to the general public for profit.

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A lead attorney for the players responded by saying those instructions went against settlement terms and asking the CSC to rescind the guidance.

“This process is undermined when the CSC goes off the reservation and issues directions to the schools that are not consistent with the Settlement Agreement terms,” attorney Jeffrey Kessler wrote to NCAA outside counsel Rakesh Kilaru in a letter obtained by The Associated Press.

Yahoo Sports first reported details of the letter, in which Kessler threatens to take the issue to a judge assigned with resolving disputes involved in the settlement.

Kessler told AP his firm was not commenting on the contents of the letter, and Kilaru did not immediately respond to AP’s request for a comment.

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Yahoo quoted a CSC spokesman as saying the parties are working to resolve differences and that “the guidance issued by the College Sports Commission … is entirely consistent with the House settlement and the rules that have been agreed upon with class counsel.”

When NIL payments became allowed in 2021, boosters formed so-called “collectives” that were closely tied to universities to work out contracts with the players, who still weren’t allowed to be paid directly by the schools.

Terms of the House settlement allow schools to make the payments now, but keep the idea of outside payments from collectives, which have to be approved by the CSC if they are worth $600 or more.

The CSC, in its letter last week, explained that if a collective reaches a deal, for instance, for an athlete to appear on behalf of the collective, which charges an admission fee, that collective does not have a “valid business purpose” because the purpose of the event is to raise money to pay athletes, not to provide goods or services available to the general public for profit.

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Another example of a disallowed deal was one an athlete makes to sell merchandise to raise money to pay that player because, the CSC guidance said, the purpose of “selling merchandise is to raise money to pay that student-athlete and potentially other student-athletes at a particular school or schools, which is not a valid business purpose.”

Kessler’s letter notes that the “valid business purpose” rule was designed to ensure athletes were not simply being paid to play, and did not prohibit NIL collectives from paying athletes for the type of deals described above.

To prevent those payments “would be to create a new prohibition on payments by a NIL collective that is not provided for or contemplated by the Settlement Agreement, causing injury to the class members who should be free to receive those payments,” Kessler wrote.

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Lane Kiffin calls out rev-share rules, says some teams ‘not staying within’ cap

While adjusting to the revenue-sharing era in college athletics, coaches have made their frustrations clear. Big 12 coaches called for transparency and clarity last week at the conference’s media days, and Lane Kiffin also shared his thoughts on the post-House v. NCAA settlement landscape. Kiffin called out the rules around revenue-sharing set under the agreement. […]

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While adjusting to the revenue-sharing era in college athletics, coaches have made their frustrations clear. Big 12 coaches called for transparency and clarity last week at the conference’s media days, and Lane Kiffin also shared his thoughts on the post-House v. NCAA settlement landscape.

Kiffin called out the rules around revenue-sharing set under the agreement. Schools are now able to directly share up to $20.5 million with athletes, and the first payments went out this month. That figure is set to increase annually under the 10-year settlement.

Rev-share offers cannot be sent to recruits until their senior years of high school, meaning Aug. 1 is a landmark date. As Kiffin looked at where things stand, he sees schools going above that $20.5 million cap. That adds to the questions he has.

“We get a lot of questions like, what’s it like now?” Kiffin said in his remarks Monday at SEC Media Days. “We’ve been operating – we have – under these cap guidelines of what was coming and what it was going look like. I think we’ve done a really good job of that. Obviously means you can’t sign as many players as you would like at times because you have a budget. So we’re obviously hopeful that will be rewarded by doing that.

“I think it’s obvious people aren’t staying within that cap, so I think the whole thing will be, what does that look like? That’s what we don’t know. What does it look like when you don’t and what are the punishments for that? Do you win and that comes later? So that’s remained to be seen, but already got the questions about the cap, what that’s like having to do that. We’ve been doing that for a while, operating on that.”

As the NIL era transformed college sports, Lane Kiffin was outspoken about its impact. He was also quick to make jokes on social media and recalled a quip about Texas A&M’s highly rated recruiting class in 2022 as dollars started flowing.

The cap set by the House settlement is for revenue-sharing from the school. Third-party NIL deals will be vetted by the Deloitte-operated clearinghouse, NIL Go, if they are worth more than $600. That has been the subject of frustration from NIL collectives in light of recent guidance from the College Sports Commission.

But when asked whether there should be a salary cap in college football – something Deion Sanders suggested a week ago at Big 12 Media Days – Kiffin said that’s the goal with the rev-share limit. But he stressed the need for clarity with regard to following the rules.

“I think that’s what we attempted. Doesn’t seem like that’s working very well,” Kiffin said of the $20.5 million cap. “So yeah, I mean, stating the obvious. That was the intention of what was going on because there were so many complaints when NIL started about, okay, everybody has different advantages, and different payrolls. Saw those a couple years ago. I was up here at one of these joking about a luxury tax based on A&M’s spending or whatever it was. So that was supposed to be being fix, and now it’s not.

“Again, we’ve tried to follow the guidelines because that’s what we were told we needed to do. I’m not saying they’re wrong for doing it – I’m not calling anybody out. If the system isn’t solid enough to prevent that, then we really don’t have a system. So you’re not operating on a salary cap.”



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