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FILE - Georgia head coach Kirby Smart, center, enters the stadium during a ceremony celebrating the Bulldog's second consecutive NCAA college football national championship on Jan. 14, 2023, in Athens, Ga. The first Wednesday of February used to be the biggest day on the calendar for college football recruiting. Now it’s an afterthought. Before the championship game, Smart and TCU’s Sonny Dykes both called for changes to the crowded college football calendar without going into specifics. (AP Photo/Alex Slitz, File)
Busy college football recruiting period called 'total chaos'

By Steve Megargee Feb. 02, 2023 01:40 PM EST

Arizona State coach Herm Edwards looks toward the scoreboard with his team his down against Eastern Michigan during the first half of an NCAA college football game Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022, in Tempe, Ariz. (AP Photo/Darryl Webb)
After surge in first-half firings, can seasons be salvaged?

By Ralph D. Russo Oct. 06, 2022 08:46 AM EDT

FILE - UConn's Paige Bueckers stretches during a practice session for a college basketball game in the final round of the Women's Final Four NCAA tournament April 2, 2022, in Minneapolis. In 2019, California became the first state to pass a law allowing athletes to earn money on endorsements, autograph signings and other activities, and by July 2021, the NCAA lifted its decades-old ban. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
As leaders lobby, NCAA searches for ways to rein in boosters

By Ralph D. Russo May. 05, 2022 06:09 PM EDT

FILE - UConn's Paige Bueckers stretches during a practice session for a college basketball game in the final round of the Women's Final Four NCAA tournament April 2, 2022, in Minneapolis. In 2019, California became the first state to pass a law allowing athletes to earn money on endorsements, autograph signings and other activities, and by July 2021, the NCAA lifted its decades-old ban. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
Miami's Wong shows college sports hurtles toward free market

By Jim Vertuno May. 05, 2022 04:45 PM EDT

FILE - Pittsburgh wide receiver Jordan Addison (3) hauls in a pass for a touchdown against Duke safety Lummie Young IV (23) during the first half of an NCAA college football game Nov. 6, 2021, in Durham, N.C. Addison is exploring his options. The 2021 Biletnikoff Award winner as the nation's top receiver is in the NCAA transfer portal. Addison put in his paperwork by the May 1 deadline and his entry became visible Tuesday. (AP Photo/Chris Seward, File)
'Momentum' for dumping yearly scholarship limits in football

By Ralph D. Russo May. 03, 2022 09:43 PM EDT

FILE - Texas players sing "The Eyes Of Texas" after defeating Kansas State 22-17 in an NCAA college football game in Austin, Texas, Friday, Nov. 26, 2021. Six months after one of the biggest rule changes in the history of college sports, money for athletes is being pledged by the millions in a development that has raised concerns about the role of wealthy alumni eager to back their beloved alma maters. At Texas, one group is dangling $50,000 a year for individual offensive linemen while another says it already has $10 million promised for Longhorns athletes. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File)
Latest NIL twist: Millions being pledged to college athletes

By Jim Vertuno Dec. 14, 2021 03:23 PM EST

FILE - In this Sept. 4, 2000, file photo, Army head coach Todd Berry works on the sidelines during the first half of an NCAA college football game against Cincinnati in Cincinnati. Twenty years later, former Army football coach Todd Berry still gets choked up thinking about that Sept. 11, 2001, day and the terrorist attacks carried out not only on the twin towers at the World Trade Center but at the Pentagon, and in a field in rural Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Al Behrman, File)
Vignettes: Service academy athletes recall Sept. 11

By John Kekis Sep. 09, 2021 03:49 PM EDT

FILE In this Oct. 1, 2011, file photo, Air Force quarterback Tim Jefferson Jr. drops back to pass during the first quarter of an NCAA college football game against Navy in Annapolis, Md. The attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 played a role in Jefferson's decision to join the Air Force. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez, File)
'Life just changed': Academy players, ex-coach recall 9/11

By Pat Graham Sep. 09, 2021 03:48 PM EDT

FILE - Georgia wide receiver Dominick Blaylock (8) looks to make a catch during an NCAA football preseason practice in Athens, Ga., in this Friday, Aug. 2, 2019, file photo. The NCAA football oversight committee is preparing to recommend changes to preseason camp that will include fewer fully padded practices and the elimination of some old-school collision drills. The football oversight committee 's initial proposal called for at least nine of a team's 25 preseason practices to be run with players wearing helmets but no other pads, and no more than eight fully-padded, full-contact practices. (Joshua L. Jones/Athens Banner-Herald via AP, File)/
NCAA aims for less contact in preseason football practice

By Ralph D. Russo May. 05, 2021 12:44 PM EDT

FILE - In this Oct. 12, 2019, file photo, Texas and Oklahoma fans fill the Cotton Bowl during the first half of an NCAA college football game in Dallas. In 2021, college football will attempt to return to normal after a season roiled by the pandemic while also adapting to a new paradigm in which the athletes have more power than ever before. (AP Photo/Jeffrey McWhorter, File)
College football 2021: NCAA reforms and pandemic recovery

By Ralph D. Russo Jan. 08, 2021 03:18 PM EST

FILE - In this Aug. 31, 2019, file photo, Oregon offensive lineman Penei Sewell (58) looks on as Oregon plays Auburn in an NCAA college football game in Arlington, Texas. After the Power Five conference commissioners met Sunday, Aug. 9, 2020, to discuss mounting concern about whether a college football season can be played in a pandemic, players took to social media to urge leaders to let them play. to discuss mounting concern about whether a college football season can be played in a pandemic, players took to social media to urge leaders to let them play. (AP Photo/Ron Jenkins, File)
College football in the spring: When? How much? Who plays?

By Ralph D. Russo Aug. 12, 2020 03:26 AM EDT

FILE - In this March 2, 2019, file photo, Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly walks on the field during the NCAA college football team's spring practice in South Bend, Ind. The NCAA's football oversight committee expects to finalize a plan on Thursday to allow teams to conduct up to 12 unpadded, slow-speed practices, also know as walk-throughs, during the 14 days before the typical preseason begins in August. Kelly said the extra time on the field with a ball will be valuable for teaching schemes, but not necessarily for assessing player development. (Robert Franklin/South Bend Tribune via AP, File)
NCAA finalizing plan for extended college football preseason

Ralph D. Russo Jun. 10, 2020 02:31 AM EDT

FILE - In this Oct. 6, 2018, file photo, West Virginia players high-five fans after defeating Kansas 38-22 in an NCAA college football game in Morgantown, W. Va. The crippling coronavirus pandemic has brought the entire world — including the sports world — to a standstill, and it shows no sign of going away anytime soon. That has left fans, stadium workers, team owners, sponsors and yes, even players, wondering what life will be like when games finally resume. (AP Photo/Craig Hudson, File)
NCAA offers guidance for bringing athletes back to campus

By Ralph D. Russo May. 29, 2020 01:28 PM EDT

FILE - In this March 18, 2015, file photo, the NCAA logo is displayed at center court as work continues at The Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh, for the NCAA college basketball tournament. The NCAA took a significant step toward allowing all Division I athletes to transfer one time without sitting out a season of competition. A plan to change the waiver process is expected to be presented to the Division I Council in April, 2020. If adopted, new criteria would go into effect for the 2020-21 academic year and be a boon for athletes in high-profile sports such as football and men's and women's basketball. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)
NCAA moves toward immediate eligibility for all transfers

By Ralph D. Russo Feb. 18, 2020 06:33 PM EST

Wake Forest quarterback Jamie Newman runs for a touchdown against North Carolina State in the first half an NCAA college football game in Winston-Salem, N.C., Saturday, Nov. 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Nell Redmond)
ACC coaches not fond of league's Friday night showcases

By John Kekis Nov. 06, 2019 12:02 PM EST

Big 12 coaches discuss conference-wide injury report

By Ralph D. Russo Apr. 30, 2019 10:40 PM EDT
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Big 12 coaches are discussing the implementation of a standardized conference-wide injury report, but they would prefer some type of...

FILE - In this July 25, 2018, file photo, Stanford head coach David Shaw speaks at the Pac-12 Conference NCAA college football Media Day in Los Angeles. The NCAA’s Division I Council meets this week in Indianapolis, and it is expected to vote by Friday, April 19, 2019, on an amendment to the rules regarding graduate transfers and financial aid. If passed the proposal would require a grad transfer to count against a team’s scholarship total for two years no matter how much eligibility the player has remaining. Shaw, whose program routinely operates below the major-college maximum of 85 scholarship players, said he would not hesitate to bring in a star-level player as a grad transfer even if it meant having an vacant scholarship the next season. But teams could be less inclined to take that hit with a lesser player. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
To slow flow of grad transfers, NCAA could constrain schools

By Ralph D. Russo Apr. 16, 2019 03:21 PM EDT

FILE - In this Thursday, July 24, 2008 file photo, SEC Officials Coordinator Rogers Redding speaks to the media about new rule changes at the SEC football media days in Hoover, Ala. The targeting rule could be changed in college football next season, eliminating the automatic ejection for some hits, if an American Football Coaches Association proposal is approved by the NCAA Football Rules Committee. Rogers Redding, the NCAA's national coordinator of officials, said that because the AFCA proposal concerns player safety, it would go into effect in 2019 if approved. Most other types of rules changes go into effect in even-numbered years under the NCAA two-year rules cycle. (AP Photo/Butch Dill, File)
Coach group wants ejection ruled out on some targeting hits

By Eric Olson Jan. 09, 2019 05:52 PM EST