Sam C. Ehrlich
@samcehrlich
Asst. Professor, @BoiseStateCOBE. Ex-lawyer who now writes about college sports law, and finds it neat. Same user name over on the other Bluer Skier app.
Finally ready to announce my winter break project that some of you already know about: I've created a website to keep track of all of the court cases shaping college sports. Introducing the College Sports Litigation Tracker. collegesportslitigationtracker.com
This framing continues to bother me. A lot. Competitive balance in college sports has always been distorted by resources and revenue. The richest schools have always had an advantage by paying coaches,building facilities. But now, when it’s about paying athletes, it’s a problem.
Feels like every gambling related story is athletes saying “hey I got a thousand death threats after each game” and then every gambling post is “this player PERSONALLY LOST YOU A MILLION DOLLARS”
So far in 2025, we have tracked 16.1 MILLION parlays that have missed by 1 leg for a potential profit of $2.7 BILLION. The player that was involved in the most losing parlays was Brent Rooker.
NCAA President Charlie Baker on Trump’s executive order:
The specific order has some changes from the original draft, such as determining non-revenue sport scholarships based on athletic department revenue. Again, not clear what is actually enforceable.
“The NCAA has told conferences to not let in any FCS schools” - US Rep Kiley “Power has been consolidated in the hands of a few conferences and governing bodies with little or no oversight” - US Rep Matsui The above are statements from US Reps discussing the difficulties Sac St…
Here’s the full text of the signed presidential executive order, which is very similar to the draft obtained and written about last week by @YahooSports Story from earlier this- bit.ly/3IBA7W9
The White House’s fact sheet on Trump’s executive order on college athlete compensation says that the Alston Supreme Court case was about NIL. It…was not.
Rhetorical question that I already know the answer to: What power does the executive branch have to “prohibit[] third-party, pay for play payments”? (The answer is none)
Appears President Trump has signed an executive order on college athletics. From the fact sheet, it sounds similar to the draft order released last week. But there is one very important new item. This says the order “prohibits third-party, pay for play payments” to athletes.
For a bunch of dudes who talk about "competing" obsessively to take the stance that they only want to play big games if there's no consequences for losing is just so tired. The dregs of the SEC did stuff like this for a long time, now the Big Ten.
Spencer Danielson with a big smile at a question about Oregon coach Dan Lanning's comments on the transfer portal. LOL.