Matt Roberts

A lot of people have recently asked me if I’m interested in serving as counsel in a potential class action lawsuit.. 🤔

Arkansas is bringing back its men's and women's tennis programs after announcing they were being cut April 24. What a whirlwind. And a bad look.

You are the kind of people who just stack the negatives to get your way, or to run opposition to any new way of thinking, but not one of you thinks of positives. I have already seen some coaches like the concept because it benefits the student-athletes....which is what college is supposed to be about right?

So much to unpack here. 1. Support staffs are already understaffed for many schools across the nation. 2. A lot of units like SIDs and athletic training are covering soccer in the fall and baseball/softball in the spring. At low resource D1 schools - some may have a basketball too. Add in lower numbers in video and creative with a bevy of other sports going on - burnout will continue to trend higher and higher year over year. 3. At NCAA championship caliber programs like Virginia - you now have men’s lacrosse, women’s lacrosse and men’s soccer - all programs any given year could win an NCAA title - sharing one of the nation’s best grass surfaces at Klöckner Stadium. What does wear and tear as well as scheduling look like? That doesn’t include women’s soccer if that that move is made. Now it’s 4 NCAA title seeking programs. 4. With Rev/Share we are already seeing elimination of tennis and other programs. If women’s soccer moves to fall/spring model too - how many sports are eliminated 5 years from now? Men’s soccer is already under represented at 40% less than women’s soccer. 5. I know the soccer community wants this - but the infrastructure in college sports doesn’t exist to properly support what needs to be done for the better good of all sports. 6. I remember COVID when soccer played in spring and logistics wise it was a nightmare. I covered a few soccer games as the lacrosse SID because the soccer SID had baseball. 7. You will see more and more support people leaving college sports that are at places that don’t support their support people with additional resources but expect the same output.

Rep. Lori Trahan sent to House members a letter urging them to oppose the SCORE Act: “The SCORE Act is a partisan project that would permanently curtail the rights of college athletes.“