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@therealshenger @kwmcnamee @BrandiHahn10420 @CoryRG123 @MTinSAV @ryanpmulvaney @MaristVRoyal @Wesley_Null @JeffWildma83285 @RPosie59 @Russell_White @GolfweekRingler @rltsports AD’s care about the budget, coaches care about their team and the kids. Needs to be the coaches decision without limitations from above.

@kwmcnamee @BrandiHahn10420 @CoryRG123 @MTinSAV @ryanpmulvaney @MaristVRoyal @Wesley_Null @JeffWildma83285 @RPosie59 @Russell_White @RDFW1 @GolfweekRingler @rltsports Yes AD with executive approval to grandfather. Once green light is given, coaches will be hard at work.

Notre Dame AD Bevacqua: any student-athletes cut this year due to the roster limit legislation that is coming will be permitted to return - student-athletes will be grandfathered in. Notre Dame will honor roster spots! Way to take the lead! si.com/college-footba…

@NerdLaw_JockLaw @therealshenger @WinterSportsLaw The vast majority of kids don’t want to transfer. They like their current school, coaches, friends, teammates. They are being forced into the portal b/c of roster limits.

@therealshenger @WinterSportsLaw I am not following your logic on this one. This is actually a big concession because it means any school could add them to their team without costing a roster spot. Is your complaint that a student may not be able to demand permanent status on a particular team? On what grounds?

Looks like the new roster limits plan the NCAA/P4 will be presenting to Judge Wilken will end up being the voluntary grandfathering plan. A new element is that athletes not retained by their current/previous school will be able to take their “grandfather” status to a new school.

@ConnecticutCoug @therealshenger @WinterSportsLaw 100%!

@therealshenger @WinterSportsLaw Not only when the team falls short, but you dump a ton of money into a NIL collective/etc. only to see the target athlete or athletes to jump ship the following year. Donors are asking "what's the ROI on my donations"?

A big question in college sports right now. Assuming the House settlement is approved and the salary cap and collective/booster NIL restrictions are implemented, will team payrolls go down in coming years?

@therealshenger @WinterSportsLaw Why would the Judge accept anything that’s “voluntary”? The SEC, for one, has told some sports they will impose limits below what the agreed upon NCAA limits are.

@WinterSportsLaw Great, so you can get rejected twice.

@therealshenger @WinterSportsLaw What about the kids that didn’t file objections because they didn’t want to doing anything to upset their school and risk getting cut?

@WinterSportsLaw Interesting take. That would be wild. Create even MORE division and conflict between class members. Only class members who objected get grandfathered and not any of the thousands of other similarly situated class members.

Sounds like the new House settlement roster limits plan that will be proposed to Judge Wilken is designed to ensure roster spots only for those individual athletes who filed objections. Plaintiffs’ counsel acknowledged objectors likely won’t approve of the plan.🤔

@therealshenger Agree it won’t be “voluntary”, the SEC for one has already proven that won’t work. What they are trying to do is use Title IX to limit spots. Women’s soccer and other sports have already made roster cuts, and schools are now using those cuts to limit men’s spots.

I’ve gotten dozens of DMs and emails about Ross’s article. Panic and outrage is the common theme. I will say publicly what I’ve been telling people privately. There is zero chance that the parties will propose to Judge Wilken that grandfathering be voluntary. Zero. These “leaks” are either from uniformed ADs or intentionally being leaked to set a false baseline for expectations. I highly doubt these “leaks” came from anyone who has a seat at the negotiation table. I am certain the mediator sternly warned everyone and had them sign something with real consequences prohibiting them from leaking anything to the media about ongoing negotiations. That the parties would be so stupid to take a run at voluntary grandfathering is hard for even me to believe. And that anyone would risk the mediator hating you during such high stakes negotiations is hard to believe as well. There is too much at stake for something so ridiculous as voluntary grandfathering to be leaked out of the negotiation room. Please feel free to repost and share this 100x. That’s how confident I am in this. And if I’m wrong, you’ll never see me on X again. 😝

@therealshenger The @SEC setting roster limits below those agreed on by the NCAA, including 35 for Track & Field vs 45, pretty much blows up their argument.

Remember when the NCAA lawyer told Judge Wilken that “we didn’t come up with these roster limits in an arbitrary way. The way we came up with them was to try to ensure at a minimum that no one was losing an opportunity to participate.” Huh? He then said “we set them in a way that was designed to minimize disruptions.” Come again?

@jgault13 Roster spot limits will lead to more Kenyans, a lot of which are 25+ years old, with proven times. Much lower risk than an 18 year old kid out of high school. Sad but true reality of where the sport is going.

The 2024 NCAA cross country season has featured a number of terrific Kenyan runners at a wider variety of schools than ever. Here's how recruiting services, creative visa solutions, and generous aid packages have forged the Kenya-to-NCAA pipeline: letsrun.com/news/2024/11/h…

@jgault13 @letsrundotcom x.com/rdfw1/status/1…

What does the groundbreaking House v NCAA settlement mean for college track? No one knows for sure. But change is coming. "It’s scary because at the end of the day, we’re all operating with less revenue. Something’s gotta give. That’s just math." letsrun.com/news/2024/11/r…

@RodMurrow x.com/rdfw1/status/1…

I’ve been saying for a while that, due to unholy alliance of NIL and the portal, DII will become the new DI in XCTF.

@jgault13 The cross country and track talent pool will be severely reduced starting next year when the SEC and other Big 4 conference schools limit Men’s Cross Country roster spots to only 10 athletes.

This picture is also a reminder that the NCAA XC champs is your chance to see the stars before they are stars. You've got Morgan McDonald and Grant Fisher battling up front. A little farther back, Joe Klecker holding off Conner Mantz. And in 59th was a guy named Yared Nuguse.

My dad, now 78, ran every day for 36 yrs, 345 days, over 40k miles. He’s the reason I ran in college. That led to 2 of his grandsons running in college, Whit at Ole Miss and now Drew at Alabama. Thanks to Coach Edwards for making it happen! #RollTide #bamatrack @Hawk_Running

@NCAATrackField @ddritzenhein @NAUTrackFieldXC Way to go Abdi! A great runner but an even better person. Congrats!

🏆 NEW NCAA INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIP RECORD 🏆 @NAUTrackFieldXC's Abdihamid Nur wins the men's 5,000m with his meet record time of 13:19.01! 💻 ESPN 3 #NCAATF

A journey into the camp, and mindset, of the greatest marathoner of all time. irishexaminer.com/sport/otherspo…

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@CoachJHerbert @NCAA There are only 12.6 men’s track scholarships for the full team, which is usually 35-40+ athletes. College expenses can be $30-40k+ per year. That leaves $20-35k+ out of pocket for most families. This is not just about Football and Basketball athletes on full rides.

College athletes are just students says the @NCAA - until it comes time to build personal brands, profit off NIL, or transfer universities...Whatever side of this argument you fall on, this tired trope of athletes are just regular students who participate in sports is nonsense.

@dflynt @SoDakRunner @TXMileSplit @CarrollCXC @txrunning @TTFCA @TexasXCCoaches TX runners can’t really run Arcadia anymore as it conflicts with District meets. TDF is great, would be nice to have more meets like it, but coaches hesitant to split teams. Season also starts to early, need to push everything back by at least 2 weeks.

TX College XC/TF Coaches: Why do we need to travel to CA for fast distance races? Weather? Competition? Not good enough reasons. We can run fast in Texas. Who's with me? TX HS demonstrates: TDF @CarrollCXC is great example (1/4): @TXMileSplit @txrunning @TTFCA @TexasXCCoaches

We're ready. Are you? #HottyToddy

@TXMileSplit So proud.

Fort Worth Paschal star Whit Dennis to Mississippi. tx.milesplit.com/articles/27080…