March Madness, NIL, recruiting, and the economics of college sport.
Texas A&M defends a title at Fiserv Forum on Aug. 21. UCLA’s 6-foot-3 outside from Beijing was Pac-12 Freshman of the Year and just sat Big Ten media day.
On3’s deal-based list put six men’s basketball players in college sports’ top ten — Momcilovic and Bidunga at $6M. The portal is pricing like football QBs, and the international pipeline is collecting checks.
At Taichung’s WBC stadium, Japan’s university side beat USA Baseball’s Collegiate National Team in 11 innings — proof that elite college baseball isn’t only an NCAA story.
A DHS rule effective September 15 caps most student admissions at four years — just as Division I adopts a five-year athletic window. For international roster sports, those clocks no longer match.
Attendance, media, and NIL are aligning with decades of under-covered excellence.
Congress wants one free transfer, federal NIL rules, and voluntary media-rights pooling. The SEC and Big Ten say the draft still fails the tests that matter.
Selection, seeding, and bracket placement are three different decisions — and the committee weighs much more than record alone.
Full rides are rarer than families expect. Here's the real math.
Athlete endorsements opened the door; direct school payments, roster limits, and a new compliance system changed the whole operating model.
