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Michigan bill introduced to limit NCAA's regulation of college athletes' NIL deals

A local politician is pushing back against the NCAA’s latest rules regarding college athletes’ name, image and likeness rights. State Rep. Joe Tate, D-Detroit, introduced House Bill 4643 to prevent colleges and athletic departments from blocking student-athletes from profiting off NIL.  “House Bill 4643 really specifies that no entity has the right to be able […]

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Michigan bill introduced to limit NCAA's regulation of college athletes' NIL deals

A local politician is pushing back against the NCAA’s latest rules regarding college athletes’ name, image and likeness rights.

State Rep. Joe Tate, D-Detroit, introduced House Bill 4643 to prevent colleges and athletic departments from blocking student-athletes from profiting off NIL. 

Rep. Joe Tate, a former MSU football player, introduced House Bill 4643 to prevent the NCAA from limiting student-athletes' NIL rights in the state of Michigan.

“House Bill 4643 really specifies that no entity has the right to be able to prohibit a student-athlete from executing a contract involving their name, image and likeness,” Tate said.

The bill prohibits universities from upholding any limitations on an athlete’s NIL rights; from complying with investigations into agency agreements, NIL agreements, NIL compensation, or NIL activities; and from reporting any NIL information to an athletic association such as the NCAA.

House Bill 4643 also prohibits the NCAA and other athletic associations from punishing an athlete or university for issues related to NIL rights, or from requiring either party to report NIL information.

The bill comes in the wake of the June 6 approval of the House v. NCAA settlement by U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken. The settlement allows college athletic programs to directly compensate athletes with revenue sharing beginning July 1. A sum of nearly $2.8 billion in damages will also be distributed to athletes who competed over the past decade. But a key change in the aftermath of the settlement is the creation of an NIL clearinghouse — NIL Go, run by Deloitte.

NIL Go requires athletes to report all deals worth more than $600. It was created by the College Sports Commission, a new group tasked with enforcing NCAA regulations.

The goal of establishing NIL Go is to limit the participation of NIL collectives in pay-to-play, which has become a growing problem in college athletics according to coaches and administrators. However, as Tate points out, limiting these NIL opportunities is an issue of state law.

“We’ve seen already up to this point with the settlement outcomes,” said Tate, himself a former Michigan State offensive lineman from 2000-03, “that there are conflicts with the Michigan statute that we do have on the books allowing student-athletes to take advantage of their name, image and likeness while they are at the university that they participate in as a student.”

That previous statute, Public Act 366 of 2020, paved the way for student-athletes to profit off NIL in the state of Michigan, as a number of other states also approved at a similar time when the NCAA’s rules on NIL rights changed. House Bill 4643 would reaffirm the state’s position while addressing ways in which athletes’ NIL rights might be limited.

Ramogi Huma, executive director of the National College Players Association, noted that the House settlement itself directly stated that the settlement’s outcomes do not overrule state law.

“That’s why it remains important for states to adopt NIL laws that grant college athletes and recruits robust freedoms and protections,” Huma said. “However, I’ve seen media reports about conferences attempting to pressure universities to agree to violate their own state NIL law if they conflict with NCAA and conference NIL restrictions. It’s my sincere hope that this is not true, as it would threaten college athletes’ rights and ultimately lead to new lawsuits.”

Limiting NIL deals is unfair to student-athletes in the eyes of some detractors, including Dr. Tom Dieters, a former MSU baseball player who is now president of NIL deal-cutter Charitable Gift America.

“If a school is to allow Deloitte to determine a student’s fair market value, it completely goes against capitalism,” Dieters said. “School administrators and coaches are very quick to negotiate their own seven-figure contracts without a third party determining their value, and students should have those exact same rights.”

The path forward may see friction between individual states and the NCAA as new NIL regulations go into effect. This bill may be the first step of many in Michigan’s pushback against NIL limitations.

“Speaking as a state legislator around legislation that was passed, that’s the law of the land, the law of our state,” Tate said. “I think that is something that we would continue to address too, if we see those explicit conflicts with the NCAA in particular, trying to essentially punish student-athletes for something that is their right here in the state of Michigan.”

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Mark Richt cuts it up with ex-UGA QB Carson Beck’s on his NIL pay

Carson Beck and Mark Richt both won a lot of games in Sanford Stadium with Georgia football. Richt was the Bulldogs coach from 2001-15. Beck was quarterback on the team from 2020-2024, the last two seasons as starter. Soon after Richt was fired, he landed at Miami, his alma mater. Beck’s season ended in the […]

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Carson Beck and Mark Richt both won a lot of games in Sanford Stadium with Georgia football.

Richt was the Bulldogs coach from 2001-15.

Beck was quarterback on the team from 2020-2024, the last two seasons as starter.

Soon after Richt was fired, he landed at Miami, his alma mater.

Beck’s season ended in the SEC championship win over Texas last December when he sustained a UCL injury to his right elbow that required surgery.

He pulled his name out of the NFL Draft and transferred to Miami, where he hit it big in NIL in what some believe is around $4 million.

Richt, now an ACC Network analyst, had jokes about that on Tuesday, July 22, when Beck made the rounds at ACC media days in Charlotte.

“You were at Georgia, went to Miami. I was at Georgia, went to Miami,” Richt said on the ACC Network set. “The only difference is you got paid more than I did.”

Beck smiled at that.

“I don’t know about that,” he said.

“If you go year by year, I think you got me by about a million,” Richt said.

Richt got an $800,000 raise after the 2014 season to bring his total pay to $4 million entering what turned out to be his final season in Athens. That made him the fifth-highest paid SEC coach at the time.

Georgia paid him a $4.1 million buyout after his time at Georgia ended and he was paid more than $4 million in his final year at Miami in 2018.

Beck spoke Tuesday about his departure from Georgia but it was unclear exactly how things went down.

Gunner Stockton helped Georgia rally to the SEC championship win. Beck came in on the last play and handed the ball off for the game-winning score.

Bryan Fischer of SI.com asked Beck if coach Kirby Smart said Georgia wanted him back in 2025.

“Yeah, absolutely, those conversations were had,” Beck said.

But he told Jacksonville radio station 1010XL when they asked him about fans moving on to Stockton, “I was at a school for five years and that’s kind of the route that they chose. It is what it is, but I’m here at Miami now. Excited to get started.”

Beck spoke highly of his time at Georgia on Tuesday.

“I’m just so appreciative and thankful of my time there at the University of Georgia,” Beck said on ESPN’s SportsCenter. “We were able to play in some of the biggest games imaginable, right? To win two national championships have two rings, play in SEC championships, things of that sort. …Being able to take all those different pieces and parts and ultimately bring it to this university and share it with the guys around me, I think will hopefully have a significant impact.”





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Operations Coordinator, Men’s Soccer in Providence, RI for Brown University

Details Posted: 22-Jul-25 Location: Providence, Rhode Island Type: Full-time Categories: Coaching Coaching – Soccer Sector: Collegiate Sports Required Education: 2 Year Degree Internal Number: REQ203358 Brown University Athletics and Recreation is currently seeking candidates for the Operations Coordinator, Men’s Soccer position. Located in Providence, Rhode Island, and a member of the Ivy League, our intercollegiate […]

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Brown University Athletics and Recreation is currently seeking candidates for the Operations Coordinator, Men’s Soccer position. Located in Providence, Rhode Island, and a member of the Ivy League, our intercollegiate athletics program consists of 34 varsity teams with approximately 1,000 athletes who participate within the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA-D1).

The Operations Coordinator reports to the Head Coach, Men’s Soccer and is responsible for the coordination and organization of the day-to-day operation of the Brown Men’s Soccer program. This position assists the Head Coach in all phases of the daily operations and promotion of a Division I intercollegiate men’s soccer program.

  • Associate’s Degree or equivalent combination of education and experience required; Bachelor’s Degree preferred.

  • 1-2 years related experience in soccer (collegiate playing, coaching or operations); Division I experience preferred.

  • Excellent organizational, interpersonal, communication (verbal and written) and computer skills, necessary.

  • Experience planning and organizing team travel, preferred.

  • High attention to detail, necessary.

  • Demonstrated ability to interact positively with student-athletes, parents, alumni, colleagues and the public.

  • Strong commitment to the welfare of student-athletes.

  • Ability to independently coordinate multiple tasks at one time.

  • Basic proficiency in Excel, Word, internet and email capabilities.

  • Social media experience, helpful.

  • Prior experience with video editing software, helpful.

  • Knowledge and understanding of, and commitment to comply with, NCAA, Ivy League and University rules and regulations.

 

All division employees are required to demonstrate exemplary ethical conduct and conformance to NCAA rules and regulations; the duties of the position are to be performed in compliance with all NCAA, Ivy League rules and regulations; and any rules violations on behalf of themselves or any knowledge of violations within the division are to be reported to the compliance office and appropriate parties. Employees in coaching positions must receive annual rules education on NCAA legislation related to recruiting by the compliance office and maintain current AED/CPR and First Aid certification (certification is available at no cost through the Division).

 

The successful candidate for this position will be required to complete a criminal background and DMV checks satisfactory to Brown University prior to commencing employment.

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Located in Providence, Rhode Island, and a member of the Ivy League, our intercollegiate athletics program consists of 34 varsity teams with approximately 1,000 athletes who participate within the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA-D1).


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Sun Belt reuniting with Louisiana Tech a ‘no-brainer’ in realignment age – Crescent City Sports

NEW ORLEANS – College football’s future is oligarchy. Conference realignment, NIL and the transfer portal crush the little guy. Entering its 25th season on the gridiron, the Sun Belt Conference should be Flat Stanley. And yet, it keeps frolicking forward. The “Fun Belt” is bringing back the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs, no later than July 1, […]

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NEW ORLEANS – College football’s future is oligarchy.

Conference realignment, NIL and the transfer portal crush the little guy.

Entering its 25th season on the gridiron, the Sun Belt Conference should be Flat Stanley. And yet, it keeps frolicking forward.

The “Fun Belt” is bringing back the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs, no later than July 1, 2027. Tech is the latest in a series of additions this decade, including Southern Miss, James Madison, Old Dominion and Marshall.

After 13 seasons in Conference USA, Louisiana Tech will plug a gap soon to be left by the Texas State Bobcats. They’re departing for the Pac-12, a Frankenstein-ed version of its former self that will kick off in 2026.

With Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World” tuning up his optimism at Tuesday’s Sun Belt Football Media Day, conference commissioner Keith Gill instilled trust in Tech to continue a culture of growth in the face of chaos.

“The Sun Belt Conference foundation is built on schools with passionate fanbases, great football tradition, tradition of success in other sports, and proximity that creates regional rivalries,” Gill said in his opening statement. “Louisiana Tech allows us to be better in each of these areas.”

Gill noted that it’s an “open question” when the Bulldogs will officially become a member but that their return bodes extremely well for the Sun Belt’s future.

“It speaks to the strength of our conference,” Gill said. “It allows us to keep our momentum.”

Found almost immediately as Texas State’s replacement, Tech breathes new, logical life into the Group of Five. It has rich lineage with many current Sun Belt programs, and its football team is on a succinct upward trajectory.

Under coach Sonny Cumbie, the Bulldogs went 5-7 and snuck into a bowl game last season.

Led by Preseason Conference USA Defensive Player of the Year linebacker Kolbe Fields, Tech has sound defensive foundations and an aggressive team-building approach that fits well in the SBC.

Throughout a process of not wanting to rust, the SBC found Ruston.

“We started very broad and then ended up in a place where that just made a ton of sense and was a no-brainer,” Gill said.

Louisiana Tech annually taking on in-state foes significantly warps the Sun Belt’s outlook as a whole. Clashes with Louisiana-Lafayette, Louisiana-Monroe and Southern Miss will return to the highly competitive West division after hiatuses that ranged from brief to a quarter-century.

It’s been 25 years since UL Monroe’s played the school just 30 minutes down the road. Coach Bryant Vincinent is admirably rounding the Warhawks into form as the battle for I-20 looms.

“When I stepped foot on campus, the first day, I heard about LA Tech, the rivalry,” Vincent said. “If we’re going to really rebuild this program and get it to where it needs to be, we need to play LA Tech.

“Northeast Louisiana needs the LA Tech and ULM rivalry to come back. It’s going to bring back fans, it’s going to bring back energy, it’s going to bring back passion. We’ve got a lot of respect for the guys up north, the guys in Ruston, but I can tell you this, we’ll have a plan to wreck Tech too, because that’s what everybody wants.”

After winning the Sun Belt West with a 9-4 campaign, coach Michael Desormeaux’s Ragin’ Cajuns are ready to rekindle their flames up north. UL and LA Tech have not met since 2015, and the Cajuns have not defeated the Bulldogs since 1996.

Now, they’ll have a chance to reshape a Louisiana football ecosystem that better caters to local fans.

On a grander scale, it keeps the Fun Belt eternally entertaining on its rise to national prominence.

“That’s what our conference has done such a good job of,” Desormeaux said. “You’ve created all these regional divisions where the matchups matter to people … I don’t see any scenario where it’s not good for all of us.”



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Auburn raids SEC foe for new assistant general manager

Auburn can’t recruit? Guess again.  The Tigers are fortifying their personnel and recruiting staff at the onset of a critical year for Hugh Freeze, FootballScoop has learned.  Sources for the past few days told FootballScoop that Auburn was pursuing Arkansas’s Jovon Hubbard for an upper-level off-the-field position within the Tigers’ football program. Now, that deal […]

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Auburn can’t recruit? Guess again. 

The Tigers are fortifying their personnel and recruiting staff at the onset of a critical year for Hugh Freeze, FootballScoop has learned. 

Sources for the past few days told FootballScoop that Auburn was pursuing Arkansas’s Jovon Hubbard for an upper-level off-the-field position within the Tigers’ football program.

Now, that deal is complete — with a signed contract, FootballScoop has learned. Hubbard is exiting his director of football personnel role in Sam Pittman’s Arkansas program to become the assistant general manager of Auburn football, where he will take on a key role in Freeze’s program and work underneath the well-regarded Will Redmond, a former FootballScoop Player Personnel Director of the Year.

It’s a reunion of sorts for Freeze and Hubbard, who previously worked together across three seasons at Liberty.

Hubbard additionally has some NFL chops on his resumè; he participated in NFL internship programs with both the Green Bay Packers and Atlanta Falcons. He had been a key member of Pittman’s Arkansas personnel organization for some two years.

The impending addition of Hubbard is a strong hire for Auburn, which has been scrutinized for its current very deliberate pace on the recruiting trail; the Tigers have 11 current commitments, according to 247Sports and including their highest-rated pledge, Jaquez Wilkes, who joined the class Monday. Four-star quarterback Peyton Falzone also committed less than a month ago, signaling some momentum on the trail for the program.

Additionally, in recent days, multiple sources told FootballScoop that Auburn isn’t done bolstering its personnel, recruiting and scouting staff; the Tigers have had in-depth conversations with a notable NFL executive this month, FootballScoop has learned.

The Tigers open their 2025 season Friday, Aug. 29, at Big 12 Conference member Baylor; they host a pair of Group of Five opponents the next two weeks before beginning SEC play Sept. 20 at Oklahoma. 



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How much money is being offered to top recruits? A dozen anonymous Power Four commits sound off on NIL

How much money is really being offered to top recruits in the NIL era? To find out, we spoke with a dozen anonymous Power Four commitments from the 2026 class. Their responses offer a behind-the-scenes look at what’s actually being put on the table for elite high school prospects. From six-figure payouts to differing deal […]

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How much money is really being offered to top recruits in the NIL era?

To find out, we spoke with a dozen anonymous Power Four commitments from the 2026 class. Their responses offer a behind-the-scenes look at what’s actually being put on the table for elite high school prospects.

From six-figure payouts to differing deal structures, the feedback paints a picture of an NIL world that’s exponentially grown over the last few years.

Recruits, who were granted anonymity, share their top offer, which school offered that amount and whether they took the top offer on the table:



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UCLA transfer Kaedin Robinson files lawsuit against NCAA to play 2025

Former Appalachian State wide receiver and UCLA transfer Kaedin Robinson has filed a lawsuit against the NCAA in the U.S. District Court of the Central District of California in an attempt to play the 2025-2026 season in Westwood. The NCAA denied Robinson’s waiver to play for UCLA in March because he did not meet the […]

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UCLA transfer Kaedin Robinson files lawsuit against NCAA to play 2025

Former Appalachian State wide receiver and UCLA transfer Kaedin Robinson has filed a lawsuit against the NCAA in the U.S. District Court of the Central District of California in an attempt to play the 2025-2026 season in Westwood.

The NCAA denied Robinson’s waiver to play for UCLA in March because he did not meet the criteria for an extension of his collegiate eligibility, having already exhausted it all, according to the NCAA.

In his 19-page complaint filed last Tuesday the receiver claimed that the NCAA penalized him for playing with the ASA Brooklyn Avengers, a junior college in New York, as well as facing “significant” disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Robinson further alleged that the NCAA’s decision severely limits his opportunities, and that the organization relied on an “unlawful” five-year eligibility rule that violated antitrust laws.

​​“The NCAA’s anticompetitive conduct, coupled with its unreasonable denial of Robinson’s meritorious request for a waiver, thus threatens him with immediate irreparable harm,” the lawsuit states.

Not only does the NCAA decision prevent him from playing his final collegiate season at UCLA – where he could be Nico Iamaleava’s top pass-catching target – it also prevents him from receiving the $450,000 Name, Image and Likeness contract that UCLA offered him.

Robinson’s lawsuit comes after former Vanderbilt quarterback – and past JUCO player at the New Mexico Military Institute – Diego Pavia was issued an extra year of eligibility following an injunction from a Tennessee federal judge in December.

Similar to Robinson, Pavia sued the NCAA in November, claiming that the body violated antitrust laws by not allowing him to earn compensation from the NIL and by counting his year at a junior college towards his overall NCAA eligibility. The body deemed him ineligible for an additional season in accordance with the Five-Year rule.

While the decision from Judge William Campbell is not a final ruling, it allows Pavia to compete until the case is resolved, throwing a cog in the NCAA’s decision-making process regarding Robinson and other JUCO athletes.

“Despite the obvious and immediate harm that Robinson will suffer if not granted the requested relief, the NCAA has refused to grant him a waiver of the Five-Year Rule (and thus also refused to grant him the Pavia Waiver, which is dependent on the waiver of the Five-Year Rule),” the lawsuit states. “The NCAA has done so confusingly and inconsistently – even though it granted the Pavia Waiver on a blanket basis for purposes of the Intercollegiate Competition Rule. This Court’s immediate intervention is needed to right this wrong.”

The NCAA’s Five-Year rule allows students four years of play in a five-year period. However, that five-year period starts on a student-athlete’s first day of classes at a “collegiate institution,” which includes junior colleges and other non-NCAA institutions.

This Five-Year rule has faced intense backlash and antitrust lawsuits from JUCO athletes, as it penalizes athletes who competed at schools that the National Junior College Athletic Association governs, where opportunities to earn compensation through NIL are limited.

The NCAA issued a blanket waiver for the 2025-2026 academic year in response to Pavia’s injunction, granting an extra year of eligibility to Pavia and other junior college athletes who would have otherwise exhausted their collegiate eligibility.

The inconsistency in application between Pavia’s case and Robinson’s has led to the lawsuit, where Robinson is seeking the restoration of his eligibility alongside the retrieval of compensatory and punitive damage payments as well as attorneys’ fees.

After his JUCO stint, Robinson spent a season at Central Florida, where he logged just one catch – a thirty-yard touchdown grab. He then spent the following three seasons at Appalachian State, boasting 14 touchdowns and amassing over 2,000 receiving yards.

Robinson initially came to Westwood with former Appalachian State quarterback Joey Aguilar, who was slotted in as the team’s new signal caller before Iamaleava transferred to UCLA.

The 6-foot-2 pass catcher had his best season to date in 2023, when he caught 67 catches for 905 yards and 10 touchdowns. He also earned an All-Sun Belt First Team selection in 2024, catching 53 passes for 840 yards before suffering a season-ending injury just nine games into the season.

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