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The Mountain West names WCC Commissioner Nevarez to lead the conference, starting January 1. Nevarez: “I am honored and humbled to be trusted to lead one of the nation’s elite athletic conferences, and I want to thank the Board of Directors for their belief in me and in my vision. We are well-positioned as a league thanks to the incredible legacy of Commissioner Thompson, but we cannot—and will not—rest on our success. We will be aggressive, we will be innovative, we will be inclusive and we will keep our focus on the student-athletes who call the Mountain West Conference home. I cannot wait to visit our campuses, our Conference staff, and our fans, and to begin the work ahead.” (link)
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Jackson State AD Robinson joins D1.ticker/Connect’s Eargle to discuss the impact of hosting ESPN College GameDay, how he attracted FB HC Sanders and how to leverage the department’s momentum to construct future facilities that will benefit all student-athletes. Robinson asserts he wants the Tigers to “dominate” moving forward, telling Eargle: “Not just on the field, but we want to dominate on and off the field. We want to graduate our student-athletes, we want them to have the best experience here at Jackson State University and we want to win championships. So, we want to dominate in all those areas when it comes to supporting our students, supporting our coaches and every decision that we make, we want to make sure we make the decision for our student-athletes to continue to build on this great tradition and blaze new trails.” (link)
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Auburn unveils its new $92M, 240K square-foot Woltosz Football Performance Center which includes two outdoor fields, one indoor turf field, new locker room, weight room and much more. Interim FB HC Williams: "Anybody who had anything to do with this building, from our donors to Gregory, to see these kids' faces, I'm ecstatic. Auburn football is A-Okay! If a kid walks through these doors and see this facility, they have every resource to be successful along with a big, beautiful building. We're not going to forget what makes Auburn great, along with the people, with this beautiful building. Watch out college football!" (link, link)
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The Baylor Board of Regents approved $78.6M to begin phase 2 of work on the Fudge Football Development Center, which will create over 100K square-feet of space including an expanded indoor turf field, locker rooms, training room, strength and conditioning room and more. The $89.6M phase one work began this past summer and the facility is slated to open in spring 2024. (link)
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The AP examines how athletic departments are dealing with rising costs, noting, for instance, that Nebraska “hopes to work with its beef and chicken vendors to find more cost-effective ways to order food for the training table. It's also lining up more nonprofit groups to work concession stands to reduce labor costs.” NU reportedly expects the cost of doing business to be about $3M more than it would be if the U.S. inflation rate hadn't risen to more than 8%, the AP adds. The Huskers also expect travel costs to increase by $1.3M to $9.2M this year, per Executive Assoc. AD/CFO Ewald. Meanwhile, outgoing Arizona AVP/COO & new Bowling Green AD van der Merwe says the Wildcats are projecting a possible $4M overall increase, including a 20-25% jump in travel expenses.(link)
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Georgetown Executive Senior Assoc. AD for Business & Finance/SWA Brummell and Yale Senior Assoc. AD for Business Operations Lee join Michigan State Assoc. AD/Chief of Staff Clark at the Women Leaders National Convention to discuss how athletic departments can tell a unique story through their business office. Brummell and Lee explain how their departments are taking a quantitative approach to shape the narrative behind college athletics and how their units are addressing current financial challenges such as inflation, Alston funding and talent retention. On the impact of inflation, Lee explains the difficulties begin to compound given the volume of student-athletes that schools need to support. “It could be just an individual meal, where we used to be able to feed our student-athletes breakfast for, let’s say, about $10. Now, in the city of New Haven, that cost now goes up to about $15. But when you consider that for about 1K student-athletes that we have, that adds up. And it’s not that they take one trip, they take multiple trips. So, when our revenue isn’t growing at the same pace… that’s where we are starting to see where do we cut or where do we increase our revenue?” Lots more in the full discussion from AthleticDirectorU. (link)
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New Presidents & Chancellors...
+ Prairie View A&M names VCU VP for Strategy, Enrollment and Student Success LeGrande as its next president. (link)
+ UIC selects former Notre Dame Provost Miranda as its new chancellor. (link)
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Admins & Coaches...
+ Former UCLA/UC Irvine AD Guerrero has joined the Board of Advisors for REVELxp. (link)
+ Wagner welcomes Grant Thornton Audit Senior Associate Bonamo as its new Assoc. AD for Internal Operations. (link)
+ Robert Morris MSOC HC O’Keefe stepped down from the position to move closer to family after overseeing the program’s transition to the Horizon League during the pandemic. (link)
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JohnCanzano.com’s namesake unpacks the cost of doing business in the transfer portal, revealing that on his visit to Oregon State, former Georgia/USC/current West Virginia QB Daniels sought a personal chef, a four-bedroom rental house and a six-figure endorsement deal. “Daniels’ father drove the conversation. The OSU donors never spoke with the quarterback himself. The talks fizzled out. It came as no surprise to anyone that Daniels didn’t end up in Corvallis.” Shortly after arriving in Morgantown, Daniels and two other teammates hosted a free camp for elementary and middle school students. According to Canzano, “Daniels cashed in, though. The appearance was part of a NIL deal worth more than six figures, per a source.” The subsequent creation of the Dam Nation collective, Canzano continues, signals the Beavers’ seriousness about competing in the NIL world. (link)
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Accordingly, The Oregonian’s Daschel takes a deeper look at the newly formed Dam Nation collective to support Oregon State student-athletes. Founded by former Beavers Assoc. AD/Chief of Staff Bjornstad and former Nike executive Oldfield, Dam Nation will leverage its partnership with LEARFIELD to connect with corporate sponsors. Bjornstad: “These are businesses that are already identified as Oregon State partners. Now, all of a sudden, we’re at the table with them. … We are having very significant conversations with investors. I hesitate to put a dollar amount on that. But we’re going after it. We’re swinging for the fences. We’re going to do this, and do it right.” (link)
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More NIL Today...
+ The latest collective powered by SANIL is Friends of George, which allows George Washington fans to sign up for six different subscription levels and will eventually include NFTs. SANIL CEO and co-founder Belzer: "A lot of smaller schools are now saying, 'How do we create opportunities for our student-athletes? How do we start building an infrastructure that allows us to be competitive and to tap into our fan base and the business community?'" (link)
+ As NIL continues to impact recruiting, with QB Rashada the latest to flip his commitment (from Miami (FL) to Florida) last night, one anonymous AD of a top-25 program tells On3’s Nakos: “I think the willingness or lack of willingness to embrace NIL is that if you’re unwilling to adapt and embrace, wherever you’re at on the totem pole, people will climb above you." (link)
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Conference Considerations...
+ The MAC will suspend sponsoring Men’s Soccer after this season, with four full and one affiliate member. Commissioner Steinbrecher: “The membership has had exceptional success and has been a perennial Top 10 conference, regularly placing multiple teams in the NCAA Tournament with teams making deep runs and winning national championships. However, the challenges of maintaining sufficient membership, given the small number of full members sponsoring the sport, finally caught up to us. If in the future the Conference membership includes more institutions sponsoring men’s soccer, this decision will be reexamined.” (link); As a result, Bowling Green, Northern Illinois and Western Michigan will join the Missouri Valley starting next season. (link)
+ James Madison and Old Dominion Women’s Swimming & Diving will join the CCSA, starting this season. (link)
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NFT's Wild Ride...
+ BYU’s NFT partner Ocavu has cut staff from approximately 43 employees to 22 through a series of layoffs that began in June and closed its office earlier this month. While CEO Cheney explains the layoffs as eliminating “underperforming” staff, former employee Rampton claims employees were told “the budget was too tight” when they were let go in September. The BYU-Ocavu partnership is a five-year deal worth up to $20M in its first year, per Cheney. (link)
+ FTX has commenced Chapter 11 proceedings. CEO Bankman-Fried resigned from the position, with lawyer Ray— known for turning around Enron in the mid-2000s— stepping in as his replacement. (link, link)
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Skift’s Huddleston and Doyle observe that “sneakers, and an overall more casual dress style, replaced traditional business attire in many instances” at this year’s IMEX America 2022 conference. They add: “This massive shift is happening across multiple industries that traditionally relied on stilettos and suits to make a powerful impression. Many attribute this transition to the two years of working in yoga pants and sweats that have nurtured an appetite for comfort and authenticity in self-expression. This prompted an evolution of the business dress code, and the meetings industry is no exception.” Visit Milwaukee VP of Marketing and Communications Albrecht on the custom sneakers worn by his team: “We were looking for a unique, fun way to speak to who we are and tell a story of a maker within our community. If our team is comfortable in their shoes, they will be comfortable talking to our clients and customers and representing our city the best way we can.” (link)
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