Jack Lieb

Brewster Academy coach Jason Smith will be joining forces with another prep school legend, John Carroll, at the brand-new Masters Academy International, sources told @thefieldof68. Smith, 52, who has more than 700 career wins, has won 7 New England Prep titles and 7 National Prep Championships, will be the head coach of the scholastic team. Smith, who arrived at Brewster in 2000, has coached 25 NBA players in his tenure, and more than 200 Division 1 players. Carroll, 55, who has 6 New England Championships and 2 National Prep Titles while at Northfield Mount Hermon and the Newman School, was named the Director of Basketball in mid-February. Carroll won 370 games as head coach at NMH, and quickly built the Newman School into a power in the last four years. The Masters Academy International will open in September of 2026 in Stow, Mass.

Brewster Academy coach Jason Smith will be joining forces with another prep school legend, John Carroll, at the brand-new Masters Academy International, sources told @thefieldof68. Smith, 52, who has more than 700 career wins, has won 7 New England Prep titles and 7 National Prep Championships, will be the head coach of the scholastic team. Smith, who arrived at Brewster in 2000, has coached 25 NBA players in his tenure, and more than 200 Division 1 players. Carroll, 55, who has 6 New England Championships and 2 National Prep Titles while at Northfield Mount Hermon and the Newman School, was named the Director of Basketball in mid-February. Carroll won 370 games as head coach at NMH, and quickly built the Newman School into a power in the last four years. The Masters Academy International will open in September of 2026 in Stow, Mass.

"This is beautiful... I couldn't be more proud to be their coach." @LehighMBB head coach Brett Reed told @_HaileySutton how proud he is of his team.

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"College sports just entered its billionaire era." - @EricPrisbell Last week, SMU announced that four families combined to give $50 million to their Athlete Benefit Fund through Mustang Partners. That money goes directly toward scholarships, NIL advancement, and revenue sharing. Four families. $50 million. And they're not done. They also launched the Boulevard Society with a goal to raise another $50 million by the end of 2026. This is the same program that got the death penalty in 1987 for paying players. Now they've built an integrated revenue, NIL, and brand unit with a staff of 60 people. In their first ACC season, they more than doubled football season ticket revenue. Their Mustang Club raised $65 million in cash gifts in FY2025. And back in 2023, they put together a room of donors worth over $15 billion just to get into the ACC. The irony is almost too perfect. What would have gotten SMU shut down 40 years ago is now not only legal, it's the entire business model. Overall, a $50 million donor gift isn't a scalable model for most programs. But the infrastructure SMU is building around it is. Combining sponsorships, licensing, commercial NIL, and premium hospitality under one integrated unit is the part worth studying. Schools that figure out how to build real revenue infrastructure around NIL and revenue sharing will separate from the pack. Schools that keep treating this like a side project will get left behind. We're watching the professionalization of college athletics happen in real time. And the programs with committed, coordinated capital are going to win. The question every AD should be asking right now: who are our four families? And more importantly, what are you building so you don't need them forever? Youtube link via DMN: youtube.com/watch?v=sl-dFg…