Every Wednesday from 2pm – 3pm EST, former Michigan quarterback Devin Gardner, former Michigan point guard Daniel Horton, and I come together on Steady Droppin’ Dimes, a sports show featuring real talk, and real views, from three real dudes. College football, college basketball, NFL, and NBA topics drive much of the debate, but discussion of other sports will enter the fray some days as well. Non-sports topics aren’t off limits, and neither are celebrity guests.

On the season-ending episode of Steady Droppin’ Dimes, Sam Webb, Devin Gardner, and Daniel Horton share their predictions on what Michigan’s final punishment from the NCAA for “sign-gate” in advance of Friday’s hearing in front of the Committee on Infractions. The conversation then turned to next predictions for next basketball season where the crew debated the Michigan’s chances for winning the Big 10 championship and making the Final Four. A heated exchange over the comparison of coaches Dusty May and Brad Underwood ensued. The discussion then turned to the crew’s Michigan football predictions, with only one member predicting the Wolverines would reach double digit wins. The episode concluded with a conversation with the Ann Arbor Sports Commission and US Rowing about RowFest, one of the nation’s largest rowing community events, coming to Washtenaw County July 12th – 20th.

The contents and full episode notes appear below.

Contents and Episode Notes (Watch the full video on TMI’s YouTube channel, here.)

00:31 –Season Wrap-Up & “Hater” Banter

• Sam’s opener: Playfully crowns Daniel Horton as “the original hater.”
• Devin’s roast: “Daniel missed a show citing his disappointment over Michigan’s success landing Yaxel Lendeborg as the reason… but the real reason was, it was his wife’s birthday!”
• Draft debate reignited for Danny Wolf:
• Sam: “Daniel called me out for calling Danny Wolf a first round talent!”
• Daniel: “You started talking about the lottery. I eventually said first-round at best.” (accuses Sam of “revisionist history”)
• Sam’s point: “With Michigan’s recent wins and the #1 transfer class, where’s your optimism?”

05:00 – NIL Wars: Dusty May vs. The NBA

• Dusty May’s pitch: “We offer second-round (or better) NIL money.”
• Daniel’s skepticism: “How does college develop players better than the NBA?”
• NIL rumors: ~$1–3.5M potential offers (Devin smirks: “Sam knows exact numbers but plays dumb.”)
• Daniel’s Opinion: NBA has guaranteed development and college has NIL cash.
• Promo for Ann Arbors Sports Commission.

10:08 – Ann Arbor Sports Spotlight

• $226M impact: Michigan football’s ripple effect (jobs, hotels, local biz).
• Devin’s challenge: “Prove you bike Washtenaw’s trails, Sam—or it’s all lies!”
• Sam’s vow: “GoPro footage coming next season.”
• Shoutouts: Golden Limo + NIL ambassador Zeke Berry.

13:00 – NCAA Suspension Predictions

• Michigan’s move: Propose 2-game ban for Sherrone Moore… but skip Oklahoma/New Mexico.
• Devin’s NCAA impression: “How ’bout we suspend games 1 and 2 instead? Pretty please?”
• Daniel’s prediction: “NCAA will counter with 5–6 games.”
• Sam’s insight: “This is just the next part of the process—Michigan can decide to rescind its self-imposed punishment, and fight whatever the NCAA comes back with if it thinks it’s too harsh.”
• Consensus: Big Ten games (Nebraska) are more important than > non-conference (Oklahoma), and would actually be the costlier of the two to lose.
• Devin’s playoff math: “Early losses forgiven if we dominate Big Ten.”

22:15 –Moore’s suspension likely to be more impactful than Harbaugh’s

• Sherrone Moore’s suspension would be different from Harbaugh’s: Unlike Harbaugh, he’s fully barred from team activities.
• Group prediction: NCAA pushes for first 2 to 3 games + potential fine.
• Devin’s joke: “If I got fined in college, Sherrone better be ready!”

42:51 – Basketball season predictions – Is Michigan a top five team?

• CBS Top-5 ranking: Daniel refuses to buy in. “Too many unproven transfers!”
• Devin chant’s “Embrace the hate, Daniel!”

47:45 – Michigan vs Purdue / May vs. Underwood

• Sam’s bold claim: “Morez shuts down Purdue’s Kaufman-Renn better than last year’s bigs.”
• Daniel defends Underwood: “Illinois’ 3-point woes don’t define his coaching!”
• Fireworks: Sam cites Underwood’s NCAA flops; Daniel retorts: “You can’t win if you’re not in it!”

• Sam’s pick: Dusty May (“NCAA runs > Underwood’s 3 Big Ten titles.”)
• Daniel’s rebuttal: “One year doesn’t crown a king.”
• Devin’s peace treaty: “Check back in 2026.”

1:07:00 Michigan Football Forecast

• Devin 7-8 wins, losses: Oklahoma, OSU, Nebraska? Trap game – Washington
• Sam 10-2, losses to Oklahoma and Nebraska with strong finish
• Daniel 8-4…”Youth plus tough schedule = growing pains.”

1:17:02 – Ann Arbor Sports Commission & US Rowing on RowFest

• AASC’s Meaghan Hughes & US Rowing’s Jules Zane:

• July 11–20 @ Ford Lake: 3,000+ rowers.
• Learn-to-Row Days: July 12 & 18 (public welcome).
• Volunteer ops: “Help us make history!”

1:33:53 – End | Season Wrap

• Season 3: Returns September 2025.
• New merch: “Jerseys, hoodies—mockups look.”
• Recruiting Insider: Offseason drops every Tuesday.
• Final words: “Thank you for the support—see you in the fall!”

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BLOOMINGTON — Indiana basketball coach Darian DeVries basically had to start from scratch when putting together his roster for the 2025-26 season.

The lone holdover from Mike Woodson’s final year as coach was a 2025 signee (Trent Sisley) who hadn’t even arrived on campus yet.

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DeVries had plenty of experience with the process, having navigated similar rebuilds at Drake and West Virginia. Still, there was a noticeable difference this time around thanks to the House v. NCAA case that was finalized on Friday night.

The settlement in the case will usher in a new era of revenue sharing, along with an NIL clearinghouse that will vet deals. There was a rush to sign players to front-loaded NIL deals that weren’t subject to review before a final approval hearing back in April and that created a much different market than the one DeVries face during those previous rebuilds.

More: How Indiana basketball coach Darian DeVries handles having his son, Tucker, on his team

“I think the biggest thing, as everybody found out quickly, was the NIL piece jumped dramatically in terms of what rosters we’re going to take to kind of put together,” DeVries said at a recent booster event. “And thankfully, we’re at a place that was very supportive, and then have some great donors in place and people in place to help facilitate that.”

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Those resources helped DeVries lock down 10 transfers, including three players (Tucker DeVries, Lamar Wilkerson and Reed Bailey) ranked in the top 100, per 247 Sports.

“We were able to adjust on the fly as we were putting together a roster,” DeVries said. “And then anytime you’re in the portal, those things can get a little tricky, as you’re trying to put that many guys on a roster at one time.”

It’s nothing new for Indiana — Woodson had a lucrative warchest after the 2023-24 season that helped him land some of the highest-rated players in the country. The school is also expected to be near the top of the conference in how much money from its anticipated $20.5 revenue-sharing budget it dedicates to men’s hoops.

“Just like last year, we’ll be highly competitive,” Indiana athletic director Scott Dolson said back in March. “Not just in our league, but nationally.”

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That commitment came at a crucial time with IU facing stiff competition from teams across the country for top talent. Five other teams in the Big Ten (Iowa, Maryland, Minnesota, USC, and Washington) signed eight or more transfers.

Michael Niziolek is the Indiana beat reporter for The Bloomington Herald-Times. You can follow him on X @michaelniziolek and read all his coverage by clicking here.

This article originally appeared on The Herald-Times: IU basketball leans on vast NIL resources in rebuild amidst changed market

The House settlement has been finalized and quite honestly, while we understand the basic idea, we haven’t fully grasped the implications.

As best we understand it, schools can now pay players directly from their athletic budget. This is in addition to NIL income and of course a scholarship (although that means less and less with players now transferring up to five times in some cases).

Schools can use up to $20.5 million, coming from various sources, to pay athletes. This will continue to go up over time.

There is going to be a lot of pressure at different schools about how to manage all of this. Obviously the SEC, Big Ten and Big 12 are going to have to put the emphasis on football (and that’s true for much of the ACC too).

The settlement will also increase scholarships from 85 to 105.

Basketball is the only other revenue program at most schools and those go up from 13 to 15 now.

That’s up to 120 scholarships between those two programs and that’s before you get to Title IX requirements. Some schools, like Iowa, Iowa State and Penn, are going to want to make sure to take care of wrestling, while others (Syracuse, Maryland and Virginia, for three examples) take lacrosse very seriously.

And then when you get into the Big East, it’s probably going to be much easier since they don’t play football (we think only UConn has aspirations there) and that money can stretch further. We’re not advocating for this, but someone soon will make a logical argument for Duke joining the Big East.

What we’re going to quickly find out is that football schools will be under immense pressure to funnel money to football. The settlement is done and that suit is over, but there will be others, and a lot will be about how that money is distributed. Prediction: Olympic sports are going to get cut left and right. And the nasty knock-on problem from conferences going coast-to-coast is going to be travel expenses for Olympic teams. It’s one thing to pay to fly UCLA football out to Rutgers; those teams make bank.

UCLA softball flying out to Rutgers is quite another.

For Duke, the focus will continue to be basketball, but football can’t be ignored and Duke made big waves for how much incoming QB Darian Mensah will get ($8 million over two years).

As far as we can guess, this is what will happen: the direct payments will be a floor and schools will push hard to make up ground with NIL.

And that’s where the cheating will move. Will Wade! Your entrepreneurial skills are about to be resurrected.

Actually, if you want to make an early guess on where corruption will turn up, a reasonable guess is accounting. Players are now required to report NIL deals worth more than $600 to their schools. You could easily imagine a coach just sort of facilitating cash transfers between interested parties and players and keeping it off the books. Where there’s a Will there’s a way, you know?

In a related note, MLB exec Bryan Seeley has been hired as CEO of the College Sports Commission, which will handle enforcement issues (the NCAA is out of that now).

However, the law of unintended consequences will also kick in and none of us not many of us know how that will unfold. Suffice it to say there will be more lawsuits and soon, new types of investigations and, no doubt, forensic accountants will be hired. Off shore crypto! Dark Web payments!

The mind boggles.

Seeley is getting a seven-figure salary. It may not be enough for what he’s about to deal with.

• Louisville and Miami will play Game 3 of their super regional on Sunday at noon for a chance to reach the College World Series.
• Eddie King, Jr. was 3-for-4 with two runs scored and three RBIs against Miami on Saturday.

Louisville had been a dominant force throughout its first four games of the NCAA baseball tournament.

Now that the House v. NCAA settlement has been approved, college football enters a new era where schools will pay players directly for their NIL.

The Tulane Green Wave is one of the most competitive Group of Five teams in the nation in contention for the College Football Playoff spot.

As head coach Jon Sumrall makes a push in his second season, fans can now chip in to retain star talent through NIL in a unique way.

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The release of EA College Football 26 will have innovative changes that allow schools to profit off fan play.

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As reported by cllctmedia’s Matt Liberman, schools will now be paid for the use of name, image, and likeness in the newest version of the game.

Crucially, the frequency with which the teams appear in gameplay will determine their royalties.

The video game will now compensate all 136 FBS schools, including the Green Wave, for their fan popularity.

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College Football 26 is set to be released July 10, and the highly anticipated new version will look to capitalize on last year’s, which was the most played sports video game ever with over 1.7 billion streams.

Liberman obtained documents outlining the new royalties structure through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.

“For each CFB product released by EA SPORTS, we (CLC Learfield) will provide a percentage for each institution based on the games played for that institution as a percentage of the total games played across all institutions,” a document obtained by Liberman stated. “This percentage of games played will become the final allocation percentage for each school that will be applied to the total gross royalties for all institutions received.”

In the sample scenario presented, let’s say the total royalties reported in the university pool are $5 million, and the total number of games played is seven hundred million.

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If a school’s game was played seven million times within that total number, that would allocate 1% of the total $5 million to come out to $500,000 in royalties.

This groundbreaking change should transform the ability to retain star talent, as breakout players are used more often in games and would therefore garner increased NIL funds to be paid.

The royalty allocations were previously broken into four tiers based on real-world success, or actual games played on the field.

The last 10 years’ final AP Poll results determined the tier for teams that opted in last year. Teams received one point for each year they finished in the Top 25.

This situation is certainly challenging for Tulane football, as their appearance in the 2022 AP Top 25 marked their first ranking since 1998. That was the only season they ended the year ranked, with a No. 9 finish.

That makes them one of 26 schools in Tier 3 with a $39,950 payout.

With Tulane’s recent success, that all stands to change with the new royalties structure and will better match their play on the field with a comparable payout.

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Last Updated on June 8, 2025

One of the seismic shifts taking place as a result of the House v. NCAA settlement is the abolishment of scholarship limits and implementation of new roster limits in Division I for those who participate in the settlement.

If a school chooses to opt into the settlement for revenue sharing, then it must also abide by new roster limits. As you can see below, many of the new roster limits are lower than the average roster these sports carried previously. Although schools can now offer new scholarships up to the roster limit, many athletes have been (or will be) cut in order to get rosters under the new limits.

Designated Student Athletes

Ahead of the final settlement being approved, many schools began cutting athletes to get under the roster limits. However, the judge required an amendment to the settlement before it was approved in an attempt to protect those athletes.

As a result, any current college athletes cut from teams because of roster limits, in addition to any recruits with offers pulled, will be labeled as a “Designated Student Athlete.” DSAs will not count against roster limits at their original institution or any institution where they transfer. They will remain DSAs for the remainder of their collegiate eligibility.

Division I Rosters Will Shrink

Although DSAs may have some protection in the coming years, eventually rosters will shrink down to the new sizes, meaning a loss in opportunities available to athletes. Some research has shown as many as 13,000 roster spots will be lost.

Walk-ons have been a huge part of college football, in particular. As USA Today pointed out, Nebraska had 180 football players on its roster, while Texas A&M had 143. Under new roster limits, football will only carry 105 athletes.

New Scholarships Can Be Created

It’s not all bad news. Schools do have the option to increase scholarships in sports where the previous scholarship limits were lower than the new roster limits. It was initially anticipated that not many would do this, as the value of new scholarships up to $2.5 million will count against the amount a school can distribute for revenue sharing.

However, some schools have announced they will be fully funding scholarships for all of their rosters up to the new limits, including Clemson, Tennessee and Texas A&M.

Read all of our House settlement breakdowns

New Roster Limits

Research support provided by Lauren Galaska