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Trump's April 3 executive order wants to restore a college sports model that courts dismantled for good reason. The athletes who finally started getting paid aren't the problem. The institutions that can't manage the new money are.
By Rook Calloway · 3 min read
Travis Steele couldn't get a return call from power programs two years ago. Now his Miami of Ohio team holds opponents under 41% effective field goal percentage and bracketologists still reach for chalk. The gap is real. The format is not.
By Rook Calloway · 3 min read
The NIL clearinghouse got hit with legal pressure yesterday over rejected deals while Arch Manning earns $5.4 million and nobody can legally define what a prohibited payment looks like. This is not an enforcement problem. It is a taxonomy problem, and building rules on undefined terms produces exactly the chaos we are watching.
By Jax Moreno · 3 min read
The 2025 NCAA Tournament produced only the second all-No.-1-seed Final Four in history, and the 2026 odds board is even more lopsided. NIL and the transfer portal built this top-heavy monster. The value isn't in fighting it, it's in finding the one or two teams the market priced wrong inside it.
By Nina Torres · 4 min read
NIL corrected a century of exploitation and put real money in athletes' hands for the first time. It also unleashed a lawless marketplace that is litigating itself into incoherence and hollowing out the locker room culture that made college sports worth caring about. Both things are true, and pretending otherwise is a failure of nerve.
By Rook Calloway · 4 min read