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5 hours ago
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What penalties will Michigan face in aftermath of sign-stealing violations?
College Football Enquirer co-hosts Ross Dellenger, Andy Staples and Steven Godfrey discuss the penalties they think Michigan will receive in the aftermath of the school's sign-stealing violations from 2023. Hear the full conversation on the 'College Football Enquirer' podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen. View more Video Transcript On Friday, we are supposed to hear from the NCAA's Committee on Infractions about Michigan's penalties in the sign stealing scandal, the Connor Stallions, Jim Harbaugh sign stealing scandal. What do we think is gonna happen here, guys? Obviously the high bar, uh, is a postseason ban this year. Right. Um, and that was something that I think very clearly was being discussed in the negotiations with Michigan, maybe sort of last fall or last summer. In the revenue share era though, like what really truly is a pen, a hard penalty from the NCAA, right? Like scholarship stuff, that doesn't really matter anymore, right? Like visits, official, unofficial, that really doesn't matter. What penalty is really severe, and I think there are two, I think. The postseason ban, and despite everybody having all this money, money. Here's what I think probably will happen. I think that Jim Harbaugh and Connor Stallions will probably see severe penalties. Not that it matters necessarily for Jim Harbaugh. He's not, he's no longer in college sports and probably never will be again. Um, I think those show causes will probably be pretty significant for both of those people. I think that you maybe we should all look to the Tennessee case for what maybe would come, uh for the school, and I'm not saying they won't get some postseason. Maybe they will. I think it was certainly on the table, but I would imagine a huge fine, um, will be levied against Michigan along with some other, some other stuff. Now, I will say there's one other thing, uh, and that's Shaun Moore, right? Michigan penalized him, right, self-imposed two games. Will the NCAA give him um, more, uh, and, and so there, to me there's two really big questions. Just mentioning a postseason ban, does Shaun Moore get any more games suspended? Close
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6 hours ago
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Could Arch Manning win the Natty as a first-year starter? + What punishments should Michigan expect?
Subscribe to the College Football Enquirer Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Six of the top eight teams in the first AP poll have a first-year starter at quarterback. However, the experienced quarterbacks are lurking on teams just outside of the top eight. What might this mean as the season begins to unfold? Will experience win out or can guys like Arch Manning and Dante Moore overcome their lack of on-field experience? College Football Enquirer's Andy Staples, Ross Dellenger and Steven Godfrey debate if they have more faith in experience or the first-year guys. Plus, not all of these teams' quarterback races are decided. What have the guys heard coming out of Ohio State and Notre Dame about who their signal callers will be this year? Later in the show, the guys discuss the NCAA's announcement that Friday will be when they issue the punishments against Michigan football for their sign stealing scandal. A two-year process will finally come to a close. Ross gives a behind-the-scenes look at what the process to come to this decision has been like and what kind of penalties the NCAA can actually inflict on the school. Andy, Steven and Ross give their predictions on what they think the result may end up being. They end the show with a discussion about the Big 12 ADs' vote to solidify an existing policy related to throwing items onto the field. After the first two violations in a game, teams receive a 15-yard penalty. Ross shares his report about this decision and the guys discuss how this is directly connected to Texas Tech's tradition of tortilla throwing. How serious is this matter and what items should other Big 12 teams be throwing? Week 0 is next week. College football is almost back, and the news continues to fly. Come hear about all of it on today's College Football Enquirer! (6:06) - Can a first-year starter win it all? (27:22) - Michigan sign stealing penalty predictions (45:50) - Big 12 ruling jeopardizes Texas Tech's tortilla tradition (59:10) - Ross' Bites & Booze column 🖥️
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2 days ago
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How will paying players continue to work?
College Football Enquirer co-hosts Andy Staples, Ross Dellenger and Steven Godfrey discuss the ways that players will receive compensation moving forward across football. Hear the full conversation on the 'College Football Enquirer' podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen. View more Video Transcript For those who are coming into this thing, and saying, OK, the schools can pay the players now. How exactly does that work? You know, now there are three sort of buckets, for athletes, uh, you know, as far as compensation, one is the same as it has always been, right? It's scholarship and benefits and all that stuff. And I think the second bucket is the rev share piece directly from the schools, which each school getting as much as, uh, well, 20.5% is sort of the salary cap for, for each school. They can spend up to that, and the rev share and then the third bucket is the one that has caused so much of an issue, as we know. And that is the NIL bucket, which still does exist. Third party endorsement and commercial deals for athletes. So there's kind of these three buckets that an athlete gets, and a lot of the rev share deals, uh, some of them at least that I've seen from schools, break down the buckets, right? Um. They break down how much scholarship um and money that an athlete will get. They might, they break down how much rev share money an athlete will get. And then they even mention. Uh, potentially an NIL figure, uh, with contingencies that that NIL figure, that bucket may have to get approved obviously by the clearinghouse, which is a whole, right, another topic that we can dive into that's been very, uh, certainly at the front of the news over the last few weeks as, you know, college sports is unlike sort of any other. Entity and that it involves um big donors, school donors, historically, um paying players. And I think the House settlement in the rev share era, one of the things college administrators wanted to do was stop that or limit that as they have been trying for, it seems like 100 years. Uh, and we're starting to see in the last few weeks, we're starting to see challenges already against the clearinghouse. Um, in, uh, in the denial of some of these collective booster collective deals that, that is going to be very difficult to do. Um, and so that's kind of where we are right now, and I would imagine that we'll have more challenges over booster pay in the clearinghouse denials in the next few weeks, uh, and months. This will be a continuing thing. Close
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2 days ago
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How payments & the transfer portal have reshaped college football
College Football Enquirer co-hosts Andy Staples, Ross Dellenger and Steven Godfrey discuss how the entire landscape of college football has changed -- allowing more teams to compete for players and attract talent to their schools. Hear the full conversation on the 'College Football Enquirer' podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen. View more Video Transcript Let me talk about the movement because I think this is what's interesting about it now. Schools can pay. So, you get $20.5 million, which is a percentage of basically the average Power Conference revenue or the average Power Conference budget. And, uh, that number can change. It's sort of like the NFL salary cap, which will move based on football-related revenues. This can move as the years go on. Practically though, Ohio State was going to have all this money to pay anyway because they're Ohio State; they can just, you know, sound the alarm. The boosters will come in. Yeah, Iowa State never had that. Vanderbilt never had that. And that's where I think this is interesting because I was watching the SEC documentary on Netflix the other day, watching Vandy beat Alabama and watching Diego Pavia and Eli Stowers. The thing I hadn't thought about until I was watching that is, oh. If not for NIL, they wouldn't be at Vanderbilt this year. No, no. It is the highest star rating assembled for a roster for your players, whatever that means exactly. In other words, like the highest percentage of players lost to a Vanderbilt team, the core of which was assembled via New Mexico State. That sentence is actually, like, impossible 5 years ago. Hey, Eli Stowers was a 4-star recruit who signed with Texas A&M originally. He just wound up in New Mexico State. Guys, Vanderbilt tickets right now are going for hundreds of dollars. I have LSU in-laws who casually thought they would do what they always do when they play in Nashville, which is come in like an invading force, walk up and buy a ticket cash for $20. You can't do that. Vanderbilt is a commodity. Now, however short term this might be, because of the ephemera of last year, they are a commodity two years in a row. That also feels physically impossible 5, 10, 15, 20 years ago. Player movement can be a positive for many, um, and that is, that is like the biggest impact. So we go back to like what we're talking about, it is more about the movement than the money, the fact that a Vanderbilt can get those players and a massive team that can beat Alabama's. It is, it's a good, it's a good example of sort of a big change. Close
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3 days ago
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Revenue sharing impact, transfer portal changes & hot seats
Subscribe to the College Football Enquirer Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube We are back! After a bit of a break, your favorite college football podcast has returned! Some new voices have joined the show with the departures of Dan Wetzel and Pat Forde. Andy Staples and Steven Godfrey join Ross Dellenger for College Football Enquirer's newest version! There was quite a bit of news that happened while we were away, so it's time to catch up. Schools can pay athletes directly now. Revenue sharing has arrived! This has already caused an immediate shift in the college football landscape and schools are taking full advantage. One team who is capitalizing on that is Vanderbilt. Huge hype and ticket prices have followed. How has this change affected the college landscape? Has it changed for the better? These questions and more are what Andy, Ross and Steven answer. As athletes continue to get paid, guardrails around how they can be paid continue to be developed. Enter the College Sports Commission. This commission is supposed to make sure there is fairness across the board in how athletes are being paid. How exactly they are doing that is a bit more complicated. Luckily, Ross can break it all down. Another huge change on the horizon has to do with the transfer portal. This topic has been discussed at length. Should there only be one portal window rather than two? When should that be? Change is coming and while there is some disagreement among conferences for when the portal window should open, a shift appears imminent. The guys explain what the change may look like, and they give their takes on when the portal should open. We are just a few weeks away from the start of the season, so naturally we have to talk about what coaches are hoping to still have a job by the end of the season. While some coaches' buyouts are too big for them to have any concern this year, others do not have that luxury. Texas Tech's Joey McGuire and Oklahoma's Brent Venables are two coaches that look to be in win now situations. The guys discuss the coaches' futures with their respective programs. They also dive into how the new college landscape of paying players may have led to some coaches' jobs being saved. Finally, Andy, Ross and Steven take a look at some upset ready matchups in the Week 1 slate. Are Boise St., Mississippi St. and Kentucky on upset watch? The guys chat about what they are looking at in those Week 1 games. A jam-packed episode of College Football Enquirer begins now. Welcome back! (5:10) - Paying athletes (16:43) - College Sports Commission (28:01) - Transfer Portal changes (44:46) - Coaching hot seat (1:20:42) - Week 1 Upset Watch List 🖥️
