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College sports’ current issues with the transfer portal stem from an old adage: pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered. If you listen to some coaches and administrators right now, they are being slaughtered by players who can transfer a single time without having to sit out a season and, in turn, the boosters and coaches at opposing schools enticing them to move with promises of money and playing time. Whether this proves to be a real problem — or just a lot of howling in the face of change —… Source link

Lincoln College says it will close this week in the wake of a attack that took months to resolve. While the impact of severely impacted activities such as recruitment and fundraising, the cyberattack seems to have been the tipping point for the Illinois institution. The college has informed the Illinois Department of Higher Education and Higher Learning Commission that it will permanently close as of May 13th. As notes, it’s the first US college or university to shut down in part because… Source link

When John Isom turned down an opportunity to go to the University of Utah to study computer science and take on an income-share agreement (ISA) to finance the education, he was aware of the risks. “I created a mock budget… and saw how much debt I was going to have to take on,” Isom said in an interview with Yahoo Finance. “Even with a little bit of a scholarship, it honestly didn’t do much — it’s still wildly expensive. You have no choice but to take out a federal student… Source link

A few days ago, Sundar Pichai announced a $100 million Google Career Certificates fund. It’s got nothing to do with college education, and instead, focuses on giving up-and-coming data analytics, IT, project management, and UX design students the tactical tools needed to start their careers with a bang. It follows in a long line of similar efforts by coding bootcamps across the country and online educational portals like Udemy and Coursera.  To all of this I say: Thank goodness. Now, I’m… Source link

It’s been noticeable for years (particularly since Brett McMurphy was laid off in the massive April 2017 cuts) that ESPN-affiliated reporters have not been breaking most of the news in college football. As AA’s Ben Koo explored in early December 2021, that’s a sharp contrast to sports like the NFL and NBA where ESPN employs an insider they can credit on the Bottom Line ticker for most signings or moves (Adam Schefter and Adrian Wojnarowski, respectively). But that’s about to at… Source link

The Alabama Crimson Tide and Georgia Bulldogs meet up in this season’s national championship on Monday. Follow along as the Yahoo Sports college football crew breaks down all the action. It’s finally game day! The College Football Playoff National Championship is here and it features a rematch of the SEC title game. Georgia was undefeated and ranked No. 1 in the country at that point, but was upset 41-27 by Alabama. More than a month later, Georgia gets an opportunity for revenge on the… Source link

Saturday was a wild day in men’s college basketball. Upsets occurred throughout the day, including No. 2 Duke in a thrilling ACC battle with Miami. By the end, seven ranked teams fell. Here’s everything that went down throughout the top 25 on Saturday: Miami shocks No. 2 Duke Miami’s winning streak continues. The Hurricanes picked up their ninth straight win on Saturday night with a huge 76-74 road win over the Blue Devils, thanks largely to a hanging layup from Kameron McGusty in the final… Source link

Gene Chizik, he of a perfectly mediocre 38-38 record as a college football head coach, tweets supposed pearls of wisdom every few days. They almost always end with the hashtag #WordsofChizdom, because you can’t get advice like, “Pay close attention to those who don’t clap when you win” just anywhere. Twice this month, Chizik has bemoaned the new state of college athletics, where the young adults on campuses around the country who also take part in athletics can now make a few dollars while… Source link

The viral video of No. 1 Rivals.com recruit Travis Hunter signing with Jackson State over Florida State, Georgia and Auburn looms as an inflection point for college football. It’s the most recognizable moment in a flurry of events that show the 2022 recruiting class portends change in how the talent procurement process and compensation of college athletes will unfold. It can be placed alongside top-ranked quarterback Quinn Ewers leaving high school early for NIL riches, Lane Kiffin’s… Source link

It has been a part-plucky, mostly comical, rarely sincere slogan of every college football upstart of the past dozen or so years, written on signs designed to create smiles or chanted through contained laughter from student sections across the land. “We Want Bama.” Well, Cincinnati, you big-dreaming, gate-crashing, perfect regular season after perfect regular season Group of 5 underdog, congratulations on doing the seemingly impossible and actually making the College Football Playoff. Now… Source link