I hope the Badgers win this case. Too much tampering going on right now in all of college sports. The University of Wisconsin filed a lawsuit Friday claiming Miami's football team broke the law by tampering with a Badgers player, a first-of-its-kind legal attempt to enforce the terms of a financial contract between a football player and his school. The lawsuit refers to the athlete in question as "Student Athlete A," but details from the complaint line up with the offseason transfer of freshman defensive back Xavier Lucas. Lucas left Wisconsin and enrolled at Miami in January after saying the Badgers staff refused to enter his name in the transfer portal last December. In the complaint filed Friday, Wisconsin claims that a Miami staff member and a prominent alumnus met with Lucas and his family at a relative's home in Florida and offered him money to transfer shortly after Lucas signed a two-year contract last December. The lawsuit states that Miami committed tortious interference by knowingly compelling a player to break the terms of his deal with the Badgers. Wisconsin sues Miami for tampering with transfer
Not that kids changing their minds hasn't been happening for a long time, but it's just different now. More than ever it's about the money and if they can get a better deal, they'll flip. Four-star wide receiver Vance Spafford, the longest-tenured member of Georgia's 2026 recruiting class, has flipped his commitment to Miami, sources told ESPN on Monday. Spafford, No. 96 in the 2026 ESPN 300, had been pledged to the Bulldogs since Nov. 5, 2024, and recently took an official visit with the program on the weekend of June 13. But the 5-foot-10 pass catcher from Mission Viejo, California, has long been viewed as a likely flip candidate this spring. He took visits to Washington and UCLA earlier this month and courted interest from the likes of Miami and USC before sealing his pledge with the Hurricanes. Advertising
Not exactly the old Pac12, and maybe they need to rename it to the Pac8...but they are going forward and have a media deal. The lineup is very Mountain Westish, IMHO. The Pac-12 has finalized an agreement with CBS Sports to extend their media partnership through the 2030-31 season, the conference announced Monday. As part of the deal, CBS will broadcast the conference's football and men's basketball championship game -- which will also be streamed on Paramount+ -- along with at least three regular-season football and men's basketball games each season. Additional regular-season games in both sports will be shown on the CBS Sports Network. "Our goal with this process was to find transformational partnerships for the new Pac-12, and throughout our discussions and time together it became more and more clear that a partnership with CBS Sports would be just that," Pac-12 commissioner Teresa Gould said in a statement.
Rich Rod has 52 new players at West Virginia, Barry Odom has 50 new players at Purdue. Bill Belichick at UNC has a huge number of new players at UNC. FSU has completely retooled the roster.