NCAA Considers Five-Year Eligibility Rule, Ending Redshirts
Student-athlete eligibility in college sports is more muddled and legally combative than ever. Changes now under consideration could seek to resolve that.
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WVU Ruling Sets Stage for Supreme Court Fight Over NCAA Eligibility Limits
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit last Friday vacated an injunction that allowed West Virginia defensive lineman Jimmori Robinson and three teammates to play for the Mountaineers in 2025.
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Trump issues executive order to bolster college sports rules
U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Friday that aims to reinforce the rules of college sports in a bid to restore financial stability and protect the future of college athletics. Friday’s order directs federal agencies to bolster the effectiveness of key college-sports rules on transferring, eligibility and pay-for-play. It seeks evaluations on whether any violations of such rules render a university unfit for federal grants and contracts.
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Univ. of Nebraska football players challenging College Sports Commission for rejected NIL deals
A group of 18 Univ. of Nebraska football players are challenging the College Sports Commission (CSC) over rejected NIL deals, according to Yahoo Sports’ Ross Dellenger. The players “are challenging more than a million dollars of third-party NIL deals rejected” by CSC. “Husch-Blackwell, a national law firm familiar with handling college athletics cases,” has been retained in the case. “Multiple university administrators” tell Dellenger that their athletes are also considering arbitration after rejected NIL contracts.
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College Sports Commission CEO says system struggling with volume of ‘manufactured’ NIL deals
The CEO of the College Sports Commission, the new body charged with approving athletes’ outside name, image and likeness (NIL) deals, said Tuesday the organization is running into unexpected challenges due to a surge of school-affiliated deals it believes do not comply with the rules the schools themselves established.
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Iowa State terminates women’s gymnastics during season
Iowa State Cyclones made an incredibly difficult decision to suspend their women’s gymnastics season after only four competitions on Feb. 8. Conflicts arose between individual teammates, members of the coaching staff and parents that made it impossible for the team to operate properly. However, several players have reported off the record the systemic issues with the program dating back before 2018 across several atheltic staff and coaches that does not sync with the timeline this was a current player issue but the same issues related to lack of funding of the program as the key issue.
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Trump’s College Sports Roundtable Includes No College Athletes (or Coaches)
Next week, President Donald Trump is set to host a roundtable to discuss the future of college sports. But no current college athletes (or active coaches) were invited to participate, according to a list of invitees obtained by Front Office Sports. The list is subject to change. But it offers a window into the type of group Trump hoped to assemble to discuss issues plaguing college sports.
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Marshall Cuts Women’s Swimming While Competing at Conference Championships
This week should be an exciting one for athletes on Marshall’s women’s swimming and dive team, who are competing at the American Athletic Conference championships in Greensboro, N.C., through Saturday. Instead it has become, in the words of a parent of one of the swimmers, a “whirlwind of emotions” following the news that the university has decided to cut the team at the end of the season. That means as many 30 scholarship athletes will need to decide whether to transfer or end their college careers when the conference tournament is over.
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Schools on Hook for $303M NCAA Volunteer Coaches Settlement
The NCAA on Thursday announced it finalized a payment structure for a $303 million settlement that resolves a class action brought on behalf of individuals who worked as “volunteer” coaches for schools’ Division I teams, except baseball, sometime between March 17, 2019, and June 30, 2023—the date when the NCAA lifted a bylaw that capped the number of coaches.
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Gardner-Webb University Discontinues Tennis Programs
Gardner-Webb University announced a strategic restructuring of its athletics sponsorship offerings designed to strengthen Gardner-Webb’s position in the evolving Division I landscape by aligning resources with long-term priorities and expanding opportunities for student-athletes. The restructuring will add women’s flag football and women’s acrobatics and tumbling while discontinuing the men’s and women’s tennis programs. Both tennis programs will conclude competition following the 2026 season.
