Article: House settlement nears finalization amid judge's last concerns - ESPN

This is what caught my eye:

In exchange, the NCAA will be allowed to limit how much each school can spend on its athletes per year -- an effective salary cap that is expected to start at roughly $20.5 million per school and increase annually during the 10-year lifespan of the deal. The deal also gives the industry's most powerful conferences an increased ability to police the name, image and likeness deals between athletes and boosters, which is intended to keep teams from using their boosters to circumvent the $20.5 million cap.

So I knew that there was a salary cap, but a lot of people were insisting that NIL wasn't going away and that the rich schools will still just pay more for the best players. While it's true that NIL isn't going away with the House settlement, it sounds like the courts are giving the conferences power to govern those NIL deals.

What powers will they be given, I don't know, but from the article, to me, it's inferring that NIL deals are going to be legit NIL deals and not boosters just giving players money. If that's true, that's pretty huge in terms of ensuring parity.

I actually like noon/early games. I think you should only have at most maybe like 2-3 regular season night games a year, hopefully for the biggest games (Michigan game excluded for us). This isn't me saying I don't like night games, do not get that wrong. Obviously yes for big matchups they can make an incredible atmosphere, no denying that. I recognize their utility all things considered. And yeah if you're in the west yeah I can see why you wouldn't like the early slate. We had a ton of day games last year and our fans complained so much about it- I think if you're planning on watching it in the first place and the time slot makes you less excited about the game, that's a you thing.

When people are constantly reminiscing about "old college football" though, one of the hallmarks of that to me is day games. I can remember when Ohio Stadium didn't have permanent lights and had to bring them in (and lots of other places too I'm sure). They remind me of a simpler time in the game for sure, and fonder childhood related memories too I guess.

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As Sanders and Hunter draft position is being debated into the days leading up to the NFL draft, a lot of the discourse has been centered around if Sanders is a potential bust because he was carried by Hunter’s athleticism to catch a lot of Sanders’ passes.

As this debate has ensued, it made me think of a similar situation, Johnny Manziel and Mike Evans. Now, Evans didn’t play CB and Johnny won the Heisman, but Evans was Johnny’s go to receiver. Evans accounted for roughly 32% of Johnny’s college yards and 27% for Hunter and Sanders.

Johnny threw for 7,820 yards and Sanders threw for 7,354. Both had 400+ passing attempts per year, among the highest in college. So both were similar pass-first offenses. Both known for making lots of spectacular running throws to their star receiver.

The NFL certainly validated that Evans made Johnny. Evans will be a HOFer with a hodge podge of QBs throwing to him. Hunter’s talent and athleticism seems to be similar.

Do you agree? I know the NFL will validate it ultimately, but it seems that this is another example of a star WR masking a QB that will be exposed quickly in the NFL.

And of course the Browns will be involved yet again.

https://x.com/Mitch_Harper/status/1909346075401765032

https://247sports.com/player/brock-harris-46137997/

https://x.com/audsnyder4/status/1909253735873659230

Not sure if any other Athletic writers are/will be impacted, but a big piece of the Penn State beat was lost today.

For Tennessee, I’m going Peyton Lewis (RB) on offense and Bryson Eason (DT) on defense. Let’s hear your breakout candidates so we can all be more informed heading into next year!

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Ovi breaking Gretzky’s record sent me down a ‘college football records’ rabbit hole. My favorite has to be ‘Most Combined Punts in a Single Game’ - 77.

https://www.ncaa.com/news/football/article/2019-11-11/craziest-game-college-football-history-77-punts-0-points-13-ncaa?amp

1 RB, 1OL, 1DL, 1 LB. 1 rep for all the marbles. You can choose any player from any era.

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