SCOOP: Investment firm Sequence Equity was the group behind a pitch made to FCS commissioners about a privatized FCS playoff this week, FOS has learned. Sequence Equity would take minority stake in entity owned by FCS leagues. Proposal is being taken to the NCAA, source says.

From the author “Supporters of a particular school needed to be coordinated and collaborative to best serve the teams and players they were trying to fund.” Alternative take: PSU Athletics had to eliminate multiple leakage points away from FB and MBKB. Test: What share went to FB before and after?

Preach. www.sportico.com/leagues/coll...

Also, of course, the "they could be fired" canard is, well, a canard. An employment contract could be written so you don't lose your pay and/or your scholarship. E.g., NBA contracts don't get cancelled with injury. And of course athletes now DO get "fired" even without employee status.

19/25 are Power 2 (BiG & SEC). The rest are ACC & Big12). 9 of “the 12” are Power 2. Anybody surprised?

A proposal my last. There are measures to use in estimating contribution to revenue via contribution to wins. If WNBAPA expert hasn’t done it yet, they should. (I’m available if they need more help.)

Nearly all coaches favor. Player input = 0. NCAA acts unilaterally yet again. There will be lawyers. www.nytimes.com/athletic/663...

The Commanders stadium deal in DC, which was on a glide path for the second required vote today, has hit major turbulence amid proposed last-minute changes from the D.C. Council.

The MLB commissioner's goal is to get the Rays settled in a new stadium so he can finally pursue his long-awaited plans for MLB expansion, and he knows the only way to shake loose public stadium money is to gin up a bidding war. www.fieldofschemes.com/2025/09/17/2...

🏀 Despite Caitlin Clark missing most of the season with injuries, the WNBA had its most-watched regular season ever on ESPN networks. Games averaged 1.3 million viewers, up 6% from last season. In 2023, before Clark, games drew an average of 505,000. espnpressroom.com/us/press-rel...

“Bind that Bitch” — list. Yeah, the account has now been taken down. I’d like to address @safety.bsky.app how about you allow people to remove themselves from lists? This is a real lack and evokes danger. It is more than a form of harassment and people should be able to block and remove.

Donald Trump wants to change quarterly reporting by public companies to twice-yearly. That's a huge and potentially damaging shift in American business norms, if it happens, and one that would have big impacts in sports. frontofficesports.com/trump-push-t...

SportsEcon Students: use consumers’ surpluses from a price increase to rephrase the questions addressed here. www.nytimes.com/athletic/662...

If I know revenue by team, I can calculate the contribution to team revenue by any player and all players. And that is how pay is determined. If, as NBA claims, players have revenue data, then their Nobel winner should have already done this. www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...

It’s only mid-September but already Notre Dame football is facing a must-win game. Why? Blame the Irish’s independence — and a string of unranked teams on its remaining schedule. www.wsj.com/sports/footb...

A brain dump on the latest with college sports on Capitol Hill: collegesportsmoney.substack.com/p/score-act-...

Old style machine politics.

House Republicans have opted to delay next week's vote on the SCORE Act bc they do not have enough votes to pass it. Reasons include a failed deal w Congressional Black Caucus Democrats, Cody Campbell's influence on Republicans, other stragglers. More: frontofficesports.com/house-republ...

Big development here from Brandon. In recent days, I started to hear a lot of doubts about whether the SCORE Act has the votes right now (it could pass through on a party-line vote, in theory, and has some Ds, too. But a handful of Rs have turned).

Just setting it up to lock down his taste of the proceeds.

American men have become some of the world’s fastest distance runners. Is it because they’ve stopped partying? www.wsj.com/sports/world...

Call for papers: NAASE Graduate Student Paper Award. Email submissions to [email protected]. Submissions due October 1.

The Autumn series of the Reading Online Sports Economics Seminars (ROSES) starts tomorrow! We have another set of talks to take us through to Christmas, and we'll meet each Friday at 2:30pm UK time. The first talk tomorrow is by me, on home and away fans at football!

So what? So are a lot of people. Why lionize just one? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...

The explains by execs are unintelligible. But writer wades through it nicely. Watching for the next installment. www.nytimes.com/athletic/657...

My latest looks at the battle over a salary cap in Major League Baseball and how to avoid it. www.forbes.com/sites/mauryb...

OneTeam Partners, the org facilitating NIL deals for college football players to appear in EA Sports College Football, is distancing itself from EA's newest contract terms. $1500, no royalties, and no opt-out is "not enough," OneTeam tells FOS. frontofficesports.com/group-that-f...

In the category of better late than never - I agree on the market power aspect here. There are some in the labor market who are strongly affected by conference level collusion. Just published an article where we talk about how courts haven’t effectively analyzed these conference restraints.

Campbell may not be aligned with House and Senate Ds on a lot of things, but his college sports opinions are largely lining up with some of the Score Act’s biggest detractors on that side of the aisle. Quite the thing. Ok, enjoy the rest of SNF. (10/10)

Hmm. Actual total under CSC review is $80M. 136 FBS => $588K average. Cap about $20.5M. By reports 2024 already raised: Texas $22.2M, Ohio St $20.2M, LSU $20.1M, UGA $18.3M. That’s $80.5M. All of those already OKd by CSC? I must be making a mistake somehow. www.espn.com/college-foot...

So, 0.8% of its market value. When the typical claim is that value is $zero if the theft is precluded. I’m sure Anthropic is laughing their asses off.

So. @realbachscore.bsky.social first to notice something important, yet again. The economic interpretation is the reallocation back to players of value they always have created, that previously went to coaches.

SBA61 is an antitrust exemption that never had rational foundation but gives regulatory leverage. NFL spreading league-sold games over many platforms increases profit and price without increasing quantity or quality. FTC is toothless. Congress remains uninvolved. Pull that exemption. Now.

Author: “As the cost of homeownership has soared, renting has emerged as a popular and economical option….” So regular people are priced out of a major life equity, and turning to their *only* option is “popular and economical”? Oh please. Do better NYT. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/r...

$1 trillion is 167X the reported net worth of @mcuban.bsky.social. At 2.5%, $1 trillion generates $25 billion. *$25 billion*. That’s 2,083 randomly distributed millionaires *every month*. Forever. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/b...

Now I'm more than for regulating the free market to stop consolidation, ensure fairness, etc. etc. but as has been the case with much of college athletics, the players didn't sit down and collectively agree to these rules! It's just a hurdle created by the bosses (the schools).

Everything NCAA now does without collective bargaining is actionable under antitrust. Especially this. www.nytimes.com/athletic/659...

Just updated the "key dates this month" section of the College Sports Litigation Tracker... it's going to be a big month in the college sports law world!

Since LA Clippers owner Steve Ballmer is in the news today for some alleged behind-the-scenes shenanigans, it's worth looking at this 2021 @propublica.org story showing how Ballmer, one of the world's wealthiest people, paid a lower tax rate than the vendors selling drinks at Clippers games:

Handful of college athletes sue NCAA over redshirt rule in case that could cover thousands apnews.com/article/ncaa...

After selling *his contract* to Strasbourg. www.nytimes.com/athletic/659...

Please. Words matter. They sold his *contract*. www.nytimes.com/athletic/658...

My latest… The Top Reasons Why MLB Likely Pushes For A Salary Cap READ 👇🏼 www.forbes.com/sites/mauryb...

It’s been 100 years since A. Philip Randolph organized Black sleeping car porters and got them into the AFL while half the affiliates were whites only. And in WWII he told FDR he’d lead a march on Washington if the armed services and fed bureaus weren’t desegregated. He won. BlackLaborMatters✊🏽

Holiday-weekend pursuit: The National Association of of Professional Base Ball Players was established in New York City on March 17, 1871, at actor James W. Collier's Saloon, 840 Broadway; listing from the 1871 city directory; image of saloon at right, opposite Wallack's Theatre.

Finally, I get a local beer. I had to take the funicular and cable car to the top of Innsbruck for it though.

While reporting my latest story — out today for @washingtonpost.com — I heard some Deloitte-pitch-deck-type words that were new to me: budgetarily, exitable, equitizable. This is the language of modern college sports. collegesportsmoney.substack.com/p/revenue-ge...

Article Here: www.standard.net/sports/weber...

“While he wants to see a solid return on his undisclosed investment, he is also in it for the experience.” Hmm. And what might that solid return be? No details anywhere that I’ve seen. www.sportico.com/leagues/coll...