Is age just a number in college football - or an advantage? The NCAA is trying to legislate away older players, so I spoke to some people with experience in the area: Chris Weinke, Kilane Sitake, and a University of Georgia professor on aging. www.nytimes.com/athletic/723...

NCAA tournament expansion: The thing hardly anybody wants but they’re doing anyway, and not even because it’ll make more money. www.nytimes.com/athletic/723...

Is age just a number in college football - or a real advantage that needs to be legislated away? I spoke to an expert on sports science in aging, as well as Chris Weinke and BYU coach Kilane Sitake, who have plenty of experience in the subject: www.nytimes.com/athletic/723...

I was just at the Wuxtry an hour ago, forgot to ask, my bad.

Draft selections through three rounds for the two mega-conferences, by my count:

Zachariah Branch grew up in Las Vegas, spent his first two years at Southern California, and now apparently cannot leave the state of Georgia. (He should try to avoid celebrating at the Cloud Bar.)

Ty Simpson sat his first three years at Alabama, will presumably sit this year, so by the start of the 2027 season will have only played one full season of football since 2021.

Let’s all appreciate that the top two picks in the draft, Fernando Mendoza and David Bailey, both come off in interviews like tremendous nerds.

Kalen DeBoer, thought to be on hot seat, will now make more than Nick Saban did his final year at Alabama www.nytimes.com/athletic/722...

Taking in from SEC softball.

There’s not much buzz right now for this Georgia football team. Spring game attendance reflected that. But that’s … good? Yes it’s good: www.nytimes.com/athletic/720...

Georgia RB Nate Frazier left the game on the first play with an apparent ankle injury, but is walking now without much problem and doesn’t have any wrap anywhere.

There is also a Hezekiah Millender, thought before today to be a fourth or fifth-stringer, but based on his play in this spring game, and the potential for word-play, should be competing with Gunner Stockton for QB1.

Desperate to win again, Auburn has entrusted its fate to a Russian immigrant who didn’t play college football, and had never stepped foot on Auburn’s campus until a few months ago. The unlikely college football story of Alex Golesh (Gift article): www.nytimes.com/athletic/720...

The NCAA football oversight committee has approved moving the start of the season to what is now Week 0, other than the seasons when there are already two byes between Labor Day weekend and the end of the regular season. www.ncaa.org/news/2026/4/...

Auburn, desperate to be a winner again, has staked its future in a Russian immigrant who didn't know about football until he was 7, and never played college football. But Alex Golesh, the American dream coach, already seems to be improving things at Auburn: www.nytimes.com/athletic/720...

Being drafted in the NFL has almost always meant fulfilling a lifelong dream. For a growing numbers of prospects, it now means something else: Taking a pay cut. “It’s weird. It’s definitely different.” (Story is free to read) www.nytimes.com/athletic/720...

With the LIV Tour now shut down, does that mean former Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer can go back to live-tweeting 9/11?

Jonas Hayes is back at his alma mater Georgia as assistant coach, after being head coach at Georgia State the past four seasons. His twin brother Jarvis Hayes also joined Georgia’s staff earlier this offseason.

Otherwise known as Broc-toon.

Alberto Mendoza watched his brother win the Heisman while both were at Indiana. Now he's at Georgia Tech, and wants to prove he belongs: www.nytimes.com/athletic/719...

SEC media days schedule. Choose your fighter:

NFL-style OTAs are ‘more than likely’ going to be approved for college football: www.nytimes.com/athletic/717...

It looks like college football will adopt NFL-style OTAs by 2027: www.nytimes.com/athletic/717...

This part from Brandon Marks, if it was a really a sticking point for UNC, woo boy.

Happy Eastern

This was D-day (decision day) for this recruit. After consulting with his advisors, Eisenhower decided to go.

Okay, we’ve got a beautiful backdrop, the blue water of a bay and green palm trees. Now in front of them let’s put a bunch of guys in brown and yellow.

Georgia women’s basketball with a somewhat surprising coaching change, at least to me.

Okay rather than dunking on him lemme be boring and make my boring point: Being in the media should make Greg less prone to conspiracy theories. The more you deal with people in power, which we do, the more you should realize no one’s smart enough to organize these grand conspiracies. The end.

On the future of the SEC championship game: It makes sense to ditch it from a competitive perspective. But from a financial perspective, it's much more complicated: www.nytimes.com/athletic/716...

It's good to be reminded these days that science, and scientists, still fucking rule. 🚀

Hyperbole and recency bias are not my thing, but that has to be the most memorable regional final since that other one involving Duke.

SPORTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you’re gonna be the heel, do it all the way. Give credit to LSU for at least that.

My fantasy baseball league gives the first pick in the ensuing draft to the first team out of the playoffs, the second to the second team out, and so on. Not that the NBA should be taking advice from a fantasy baseball league, but I think it's a good idea!

Momentum is building to move the college football season start date up to Week 0 as soon as 2027: Sources:

When a call is that inconclusive, can’t they just have a jump ball?

SPORTS!!!!

The lack of upsets and Cinderellas in the NCAA tournament may be a good thing - for now.

I will not pick Gonzaga next year. I will not pick Gonzaga next year. I will not pick Gonzaga next year. I will not pick

I keep seeing No. 4 and assume something happened and better get to work, but no, not sure what the hell that’s about.

The SEC is about to be 7-1 in the first round, barring a Tennessee gag, with Florida and Missouri playing tonight. But that 1 sticks out: Georgia as a favored 8 seed losing by 25 in a game that wasn’t that close. Not a good look!

SPORTS!!!

Georgia Tech is hiring Scott Cross - who just coached Troy in the NCAA tournament - as its new men's basketball coach, a source confirms.

Before Georgia-Saint Louis, SEC teams were 4-0 on Thursday with a combined 50-point margin … Georgia’s losing margin is going to wipe out most of that.

My family did its brackets too - wife, 12-year-old boy and 10-year-old girl - and it’s another visual for why the NCAA tourney shouldn’t expand. Bigger tourney means harder to do brackets, less people doing them, less mass interest. Not sure the higher ups understand how real that is.

Jake Fromm throwing to Oscar Delp at Georgia’s pro day, mixing a couple eras of Georgia football.

David Cutcliffe is retiring from football at the end of the month, the SEC announced. The former Duke and Ole Miss coach, and Tennessee OC among other stops, has been with the SEC as an advisor on football matters since 2022.

From @theathletic.com: Alabama men’s basketball player Aden Holloway was arrested Monday and charged with first-degree possession of marijuana.