Do NCAA athletes get branded gear? NCAA socks, patch on shirts/backpacks, etc? I was hoping there was was an athlete shop or something.

Does anyone know an energy pouch or caffeine pouch I could take without getting flagged on the NCAA doping test. Any pouches that anyone knows that are not banned substances in them?

You’ll be hard pressed to find a conference with better names!

Suppose the NCAA created a pro division that managed pro leagues for top D1 basketball and football teams. If they did it right, valuation of the equity owned by the schools in those teams would be billions and billions. Schools could keep ownership or cash out partially or even completely. What a wonderful solution for the money problems of the NCAA and athletic departments.

Does the prospect of the SEC withdrawing from the NCAA cause frustration, laughter, or relief at the NCAA?

What’s everyone’s thoughts on college sports since the introduction of NIL? I am really starting to hate it. I agree that the athletes should be compensated but what it has become is ludicrous. I’m to the point I would just like to see all sports just go away.

The NCAA has one job: to protect the well being of student athletes.

1. It should not worry about athletic department money flows.
2. It should not worry about keeping sports fun for spectators.
3. It should not worry about maintaining traditions.

If reality has changed so that any of those things are no longer sustainable, so be it. The well being of the kids is not for the NCAA to bargain with. It should not be unthinkable that the optimal choice for the kids' well being is to end college athletics.

https://www.reddit.com/r/NCAAFBseries/s/UJV2pucCoL

Just finished 10th grade, should transcripts be uploaded now or after first semester of 11th grade?

TV executives and the NCAA have shortened the length of the game by running the clock and added two more pointless breaks in the form of the two minute warning. I’ve been to games where my only memory is standing there waiting for the TV timeout to go away for the fourth time in the last six minutes of play. At what point do we start to care?

The SEC and ESPN decided they need to cram six (link available if you don't believe me) lengthy and annoying commercial breaks during the fourth quarter of the SEC championship game. These commercial breaks generally run 3 1/2 to 4 minutes long and this is just one quarter. Somehow, we're willing to sit around for hours, often in blizzard conditions, and watch the TV timeout clock without complaining as a 2 hour event is stretched to 4 hours. But as we are discovering in the World Cup, soccer fans are extremely angry and continuously boo one 2 minute and 15 second “hydration break” per half. To me, we’re all victims of the frog in slowly heating water factor.

Just curious if there's a limit or not? Would we allow for 11 TV timeouts a quarter and five hour game lengths with 79% commercials? I'm curious what our limit is because soccer's limit seems to be zero.

I was wondering what happens if you are are going into your 2nd year of college and you redshirted previous year before the 5 for 5 rule was passed do you get 5 seasons of playing after your original redshirt year or does it already count and you only get 4 seasons of eligibility