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West Virginia's Biggest Additions in Football Transfer Portal

As the spring transfer portal window for college football has closed and teams put the finishing touches on their roster, it’s becoming clear what the biggest additions for each program across the country were. While it’s uncertain whether West Virginia football has finished adding in the portal yet — the off-season has been a constant […]

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West Virginia's Biggest Additions in Football Transfer Portal

While it’s uncertain whether West Virginia football has finished adding in the portal yet — the off-season has been a constant barrage of both coaching and player additions for the Mountaineers — it’s likely safe to analyze the transfer class and pick out the new players likeliest to make the biggest impact for WVU.

Jimmori Robinson, EDGE

It’s hard not to see Robinson as the big steal of this offseason’s transfer portal cycle for WVU. Robinson joins after a stint at UTSA, and was the only player the Mountaineers acquired who is ranked among the Top 100 transfer portal prospects this year.

He was the 2024 American Athletic Conference (AAC) Defensive Player of the Year, racking up 17 tackles for loss and 10.5 sacks on the year — which ranks among the Top 10 nationally in both categories.

Michael Coats Jr., CB

Coats will be a much-needed boost to a West Virginia secondary that finished near the bottom of many statistical categories last season. Coming from Nevada, Coats was a First-Team All-Mountain West Conference (MWC) selection and finished the season with 13 pass breakups and four interceptions.

Cam Vaughn, WR

Vaughn is the youngest newcomer to Morgantown among the top additions on this list, coming to WVU as a redshirt sophomore with three seasons left. He brings experience under Rich Rodriguez’s offense, following the coach to West Virginia from Jacksonville State.

He started his collegiate career as a quarterback, but switched to wide receiver during his first season and found his way onto the field by the year’s end. As a redshirt freshman, he showed off his potential, hauling in 48 receptions for 803 yards and five touchdowns. He was also a consistent target for WVU’s quarterbacks during the 2025 Gold-Blue Spring Showcase.

Walter Young Bear, OL

Walter Young Bear joins an offensive line unit that lost all five starters from last season’s squad, which was a Top 10 rushing offense among Power Four programs. With the need to re-build the unit from scratch, the Mountaineers need veterans that will bring game experience to Morgantown — and Young Bear provides just that.

Young Bear saw action over three different seasons at Tulsa, and brings 34 appearances and 14 starts along the offensive line to a group who will surely need it — in 2024, he started at left guard during all 12 games for the Golden Hurricanes.

Ben Bogle, LB

Ben Bogle is the only addition from the spring portal window on this list, and could be the sneakiest addition of them all — he’s not garnered a ton of attention, but could turn into the best defensive weapon WVU has. Bogle comes from Southern Illinois and has two seasons of eligibility remaining — during his three seasons with the Salukis, he made 29 appearances and 11 starts.

In 2024, he tallied 105 tackles and 18 tackles for losses, while also adding 5.5 sacks, 4 pass breakups, and 2 interceptions. He was named an FCS All-American and All-Missouri Valley Conference selection for his efforts, and finished among the Top 20 in voting for the Buck Buchanan Award, annually given to the top defensive player in the FCS.

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Men’s Soccer Releases 2025 Slate

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Entering year 15 under the direction of head coach Carlos Somoano, the North Carolina men’s soccer program has released its schedule for the upcoming fall season. The schedule features 16 regular-season contests with 10 matches played at Dorrance Field. The 2025 slate includes five teams that finished in the top 25 […]

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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Entering year 15 under the direction of head coach Carlos Somoano, the North Carolina men’s soccer program has released its schedule for the upcoming fall season.

The schedule features 16 regular-season contests with 10 matches played at Dorrance Field.

The 2025 slate includes five teams that finished in the top 25 of the final United Soccer Coaches poll last season, highlighted by home games against No. 5 SMU and No. 6 Wake Forest. Including those two, UNC’s opponents feature seven NCAA Tournament teams from a year ago.

Carolina’s schedule includes home Atlantic Coast Conference matches against Wake Forest (Sept. 12), SMU (Sept. 20), Virginia Tech (Oct. 19) and Duke (Oct. 31). The Tar Heels will hit the road against conference foes NC State (Sept. 5), Virginia (Sept. 27), Louisville (Oct. 3) and Syracuse (Oct. 25).

The Tar Heels open the regular season on Aug. 21, hosting UCF, and wrap up the weekend against Seattle (Aug. 24). The following weekend, the program welcomes Evansville (Aug. 28) to Dorrance Field before hitting the road to Charleston (Sept. 1).

Carolina will also face Memphis (Sept. 16), Lipscomb (Oct. 7), and St. Thomas (Oct. 11) at Dorrance Field, rounding out non-conference play by hosting UAB (Oct. 15).

Prior to the start of the regular season, UNC will head to Campbell for its first preseason test on Aug. 9. The Tar Heels will then host VCU on Aug. 15, for their final exhibition.

North Carolina produced a 9-4-5 (4-3-1 ACC) mark in 2024, advancing to the NCAA Tournament for the 31st time in program history.

Ticket information for the 2025 campaign will be available soon. For more information visit GoHeels.com/Tickets.

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Jim Phillips outlines vision for ACC’s future at 2025 Kickoff

(Photo: Matthew Chase, 247Sports) Phillips emphasized the ACC’s leadership role in implementing the new College Sports Commission model, which governs NIL, revenue sharing and roster limits. While acknowledging early challenges, he remained optimistic. “We’re being thoughtful about every detail and are committed to progress through learning, adapting, and strengthening the model to support and […]

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Phillips emphasized the ACC’s leadership role in implementing the new College Sports Commission model, which governs NIL, revenue sharing and roster limits. While acknowledging early challenges, he remained optimistic.

“We’re being thoughtful about every detail and are committed to progress through learning, adapting, and strengthening the model to support and protect college sports for generations to come,” he said.

He also reiterated the ACC’s support of the SCORE Act, a federal bill designed to standardize NIL rules and reaffirm student-athletes’ non-employee status.

“I haven’t had one student-athlete come up to me to say that they want to be an employee,” Phillips said. “I think they appreciate being in college, going to school, working critically hard to earn a valuable degree, and playing a sport at the highest level.”

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South Carolina basketball commit joins Unrivaled NIL League with former Gamecock legends

South Carolina guard Ta’Niya Latson is the latest Gamecock making news off the court, as she has officially signed an NIL deal with Unrivaled, the women’s professional 3-on-3 basketball league founded by Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart. Latson is just one of 14 elite women’s college basketball players chosen by the league for NIL partnerships […]

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South Carolina guard Ta’Niya Latson is the latest Gamecock making news off the court, as she has officially signed an NIL deal with Unrivaled, the women’s professional 3-on-3 basketball league founded by Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart. Latson is just one of 14 elite women’s college basketball players chosen by the league for NIL partnerships as part of “The Future is Unrivaled Class of 2025”. The group was unveiled during the WNBA All-Star Weekend as Unrivaled ramps up for its second season this winter. The league operates during the WNBA offseason and offers an alternative to playing ball overseas, focusing on face-paced 3×3 matchups at a higher level, while still giving players a stage to shine on while staying stateside.

Latson is no stranger to the spotlight either. Before transferring to South Carolina from Florida State, she led the nation in scoring as a Seminole last season, averaging 25.5 points per game. She is also a projected first-round pick in the 2026 WNBA Draft. Latson also won’t be the only Gamecocks with ties to Unrivaled. Former South Carolina greats Allisha Gray and Aliyah Boston played in the league’s inaugural season, and MiLaysia Fulwiley, now an LSU Tiger, was also named to this year’s NIL class.

Unrivaled presented by Samsung Galaxy just signed 14 of the top women’s college hoopers to game-changing NIL deals.

We’re kicking it off with The Future is Unrivaled Summit Presented by Samsung Galaxy in Miami at the end of July 🤩 Stay tuned for more 👀 pic.twitter.com/xhuCOewiWj

— Unrivaled Basketball (@Unrivaledwbb) July 19, 2025

The full Unrivaled NIL roster includes Lauren Betts (UCLA), Sienna Betts (UCLA), Madison Booker (Texas), Audi Crooks (Iowa State), Azzi Fudd (UConn), MiLaysia Fulwiley (LSU), Hannah Hidalgo (Notre Dame), Flau’jae Johnson (LSU), Ta’Niya Latson (South Carolina), Olivia Miles (TCU), Kiki Rice (UCLA), Sarah Strong (UConn), Syla Swords (Michigan), and JuJu Watkins (USC).

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Texas A&M Student Athletes NIL Earnings Revealed

College athletics has been changed forever. The days of amateurism in college sports are officially in the rear-view mirror. The age-old debate of whether college athletes should receive compensation or not has been settled, and the results are rising to the surface. In a recent open records request made by KBTX, Texas A&M athletes were […]

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College athletics has been changed forever. The days of amateurism in college sports are officially in the rear-view mirror.

The age-old debate of whether college athletes should receive compensation or not has been settled, and the results are rising to the surface.

In a recent open records request made by KBTX, Texas A&M athletes were revealed to have banked $50.5 million in NIL deals from July 2, 2024, to July 1, 2025.

The jump from 2023-24 to 2024-25 was more than $31 million. The Aggies’ total compensation has more than doubled every year since the introduction of the NIL era in 2021.

While the Aggies brought in a ton of money for themselves, who it is going to is very lopsided. $48.3 million went to the Fightin’ Farmers’ male athletes, whereas a mere $2.2 million was brought in by the female athletes. The men saw an increase of $29.4 million, or 156 percent, over the past year, while the women saw a 317 percent increase over the same time frame, starting to close the gap.

After the House Settlement was passed in June, the NCAA was ordered to pay former athletes for the organization’s violation of the Sherman Antitrust Laws and introduced a revenue-sharing agreement with its member schools. Each school will now lose $20.5 million in revenue that will be dispersed among their players.

Texas A&M athletic director Trev Alberts announced the university’s plan to comply with the new ruling shortly after the decision was announced. The university is set to distribute $18 million across football, men’s and women’s basketball, baseball, softball and volleyball to be distributed to the athletes, on top of the NIL revenue they bring in.

With the new costs, Alberts also announced a savings plan that includes budget cuts to sports teams, workforce “right-sizing” and decreased variable expenses tied to the numner of student athletes.

“… You first put as the North Star: ‘What is in the best long-term interest of Texas A&M and Texas A&M athletics?’ Period,” Alberts said in June. “This is not ‘What’s in the best interest of Trev Alberts or any other individual or organization.’ It has to be, ‘This is about Texas A&M.'”

Once the $18 million is distributed to the Aggies, they will really be rolling in the dough, especially if their NIL revenue continues to double and triple like it has over the past four years.

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How many athletes, agents are in the College Sports Commission’s NIL database

Three weeks into the House Settlement era, it’s Atlantic Coast Conference Commissioner Jim Phillips with the latest data on agents and athletes utilizing the new College Sports Commission’s mandatory NIL GO database. The system, enforced by international accounting firm Deloitte and stipulated as part of the House Settlement for any present or future Name, Image […]

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The system, enforced by international accounting firm Deloitte and stipulated as part of the House Settlement for any present or future Name, Image and Likeness deals worth $600 or more to student-athletes, already has thousands of athlete- and agent-users, according to Phillips on the heels of his most recent conversation with CSC’s Bryan Seeley, the organization’s chief executive office whom it hired away from Major League Baseball earlier this summer.

“I think it’s helpful, because I talked to Bryan within the last 24 hours,” Phillips told reporters Tuesday at ACC Kickoff in Charlotte. “Just so you know a little bit about, like NIL Go, who’s registered. Let me give you these numbers:

“Student-athletes, 15,519. Reps and agents, 1,970. Average daily logins, about 600 student-athletes a day are getting on NIL Go.”

How many of those athletes and agents are submitting NIL deal-proposals? And how many are getting approval from Deloitte via the CSC?

“Approved deals, I don’t have that number,” Phillips said.

Echoing the sentiments of Southeastern Conference coaches in their recent comments at SEC media days regarding the need for true “enforcement” of the $20.5 million revenue-sharing number, Phillips also cites that as a key and believes Seeley is positioning the CSC to help supply guardrails — essentially nonexistent in college athletics much of the past five years — back into NCAA sports.

“It’s about communication, implementation, and compliance,” Phillips said. “That’s part of what Bryan is trying to do. Overall, he’s watching the enterprise and what the settlement agreement has allowed. Rev share, for the first time, and staying within the $20.5 million, legitimate NIL agreements, not pay-for-play, but legitimate, where the student-athlete is performing something in return for the dollars, and roster limits, which I spoke about a little bit earlier in my remarks.

“We’ve taken off some of these restrictions on scholarship limits and some of that. He’s done a really good job. I go back to why did we want to set this up? It was about setting up a standardized set of rules. It was about transparency, which we haven’t had in the NIL era, and the ability when we began having the ability to pay student-athletes, and enforcement. That’s where we’re headed.”

With Deloitte as the neutral arbiter, the CSC has a three-pronged evaluative method it has said it utilizes to examine and either approve or deny potential NIL deals.

Those three tenets are: Payor association (relationship with business/entity and the athlete’s school); Valid business purpose (commercial transaction as opposed to pay-for-play); Range of compensation (does the offered amount reasonably reflect the actual marketplace).

There are three ruling outcomes: cleared, non-cleared and flagged for additional review.

A not-cleared proposal can be revised, cancelled or requested to be reviewed by yet an additional third-party arbiter.

Phillips knows inevitably coaches, athletes and programs are going to test the boundaries of the House Settlement and college athletics’ new general framework.

“When I said earlier, with the emphasis on restraint, I meant it,” Phillips said. “We can’t help ourselves sometimes. People know what the rules are relative to ($) 20.5 (million). They know what legitimate NIL is.

“You can play in that gray area if you want, but all that does is undermine a new structure.”

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Vandal Men's Tennis Named ITA All

Story Links MOSCOW, Idaho – On Monday, the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) released its annual academic awards, including the All-Academic Teams and the individual Scholar-Athletes. Teams and individuals from those teams can each be nominated for the ITA list. In order for an athlete to be eligible, they must have maintained a 3.5 GPA or […]

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MOSCOW, Idaho – On Monday, the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) released its annual academic awards, including the All-Academic Teams and the individual Scholar-Athletes.

Teams and individuals from those teams can each be nominated for the ITA list. In order for an athlete to be eligible, they must have maintained a 3.5 GPA or higher across the previous academic year, as well as been listed on the organization’s institutional eligibility form in the same span.

For a team to be eligible as a whole, they must have maintained an average GPA of 3.2 or higher across all varsity letterwinners. The Vandals hurdled that mark easily with a program record 3.74 team GPA in the fall, followed by a 3.61 average in the spring, earning a placement as an All-Academic Team.

Additionally, five Vandals earned the title of Scholar-Athlete. Noe De Col, Yu-Shun Lai, Gabriel Moroder, Shane Garner, and Eric Wang demonstrated excellent commitment to their schoolwork across the 24-25 year, and were each rewarded with this prestigious honor from the highest collegiate tennis organization in the U.S.

To view the full list of All-Academic Teams and Scholar-Athletes for Division I men, click HERE. The ITA has also announced the lists for Division I women as well as Division II men and women.

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