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Send us Fan Mail Late getting our Thursday show up. But we wanted to hone in and focus solely on athlete eligibility, using some examples currently being decided or recently decided for college football and basketball. The rules used to be a lot more clear, but now the waters are murkier than ever and if the pattern does not stop, there may be no limit to who you see suiting up for college teams o...

Send us Fan Mail By now we have all heard of the transfer portal, and most people believe they know it to be an evil force against the sanctity of college sports. However, the portal itself is nothing more than an administrative tool that actually makes life easier for those that work tirelessly for their schools and student-atheltes. We discuss an article highlighting the architect of the portal,...

Send us Fan Mail Circling back, the office speak we all loathe, but we shared some topics on Monday's show that need revisiting. Darian Mensah and Duke reach a settlement, the NCAA says it will investigate Clemson's tampering claims against Ole Miss. We check in on College Basketball as we are whittled down to two undefeated teams left. Plus, the story of how one athletic department has...

Send us Fan Mail On today's show, we have more fallout from local judges ruling on college sports; Darian Mensah is in the portal but can't transfer, and Charles Bediako has played in a game for Alabama this season. According to Dabo, Ole Miss heavily tampered with a player Clemson had just signed out of the portal...after he turned around and entered the portal again and transferred! We...

Send us Fan Mail On today's show we recap the national championship, and Indiana's landmark program turnaround. What the 16-0 season could mean for other programs, what it could not mean as well. I will of course cover some of my Miami sadness from seeing them lose in person...again.  Also, court cases and lawsuits seem the norm in college sports now, but we have some major ones out ther...

Send us Fan Mail The National Title will be settled tonight in Miami. We are on the scene as the game unfolds. We take a look at the big storylines for the game, but also dive deeper into the coaching and program philosophies and then how this game has strong ties to many in South Florida. We also talk a bit off the jump about the big game-fixing scandal in college basketball and what that means g...

Send us Fan Mail Today we talk some College Basketball selection process. The tournament chair for the Men's Basketball committee is talking clearly about metrics and selection process. Contrast that with the convoluted process College Football had this past season to get to 12 teams. Can Football turn it around? Not likely as the Big Ten and SEC are at odds about the solution.  Elsewhere, NC...

Send us Fan Mail We have the CFP title game match-up, compelling for many reasons.  We also have the curious case of a transfer portal QB, rubberbanding back to his school, providing a lesson for coaches, administrators, agents, and athletes themselves. Also, an update on the Trinidad Chambliss eligibility case. Find out why this one is not going to federal court. Most important of all, we dubbed...

Send us Fan Mail It's time to preview the CFP Semis, but first we rundown a change at AD at a P4 school that feels like it is behind in the money game. In CBB, Michigan almost made me look foolish for praising them last episode, and conference chaos is ramping up with a bunch of unranked teams beating their ranked counterparts. We dive into the transfer portal...somewhat...because while it se...

Send us Fan Mail On today's show we examine what the semifinal teams have in common, along with other successful college football programs of the current era. Also, the programs left reeling from coaching and player loss have to adjust as well. We look at a couple examples. The CFP payout for the conferences for this year are working a bit differently this year in some cases.  Finally, we tak...

Send us Fan Mail New year, same show...new episodes! We kick off our 2026 year of the show with a discussion over the college basketball hysteria with player eligibility. How is it concerning, how is it overblown, and what can help settle everyone down (hint: not just naming someone a commissioner). Then we jump into college football. ND-USC rivalry ending, bowl game recaps, and also we take a loo...

Send us Fan Mail We have reached the end.....of 2025 on the No Show-Cause Show. We briefly recap how much has changed since we started the show in June. Including calling out the Louisiana governor for his comments on "how to save" college sports in our FRI. Also, a rundown of the bowl games that happened last weekend and looking forward to some of the good match-ups coming up this week....

Send us Fan Mail Hope everyone's holiday was a great one. Quick check-in on the college sports front for the show. We take a look at a few college QBs and their extension of eligibility situations. College Basketball is heavy at the top heading into conference play, which conference races will have the most impact when we look at where the rankings sit at the end of December. Bowl games are h...

Send us Fan Mail Late posting but the show goes on. We recap the Round 1 games from the College Football Playoff. This leads into a broader discussion about the Group of 5(soon to be 6)'s involvement in the future of the playoff, and how some are driving the narrative based on selfishness, not facts. Plus, Texas A&M wins the volleyball national title to complete an all-time tourney run, t...

Send us Fan Mail We have a very special episode today as we are joined by Brynn Richter. Not only a former boss of mine, but a veteran of the college athletics administration game. She also happens to be married to a D1 Basketball coach. We discuss the current state of college athletics, success and failures of the current college athletic framework, the stresses of moving around due to her husban...

Send us Fan Mail Thursday show is up, and a new national champion has been crowned in college sports, in a thrilling OT finale. We'll look ahead to the sports weekend, that starts tonight with volleyball semis and runs Fri-Sun with Round 1 of the CFP. We'll take a look at each game. Our FRI is that the Show-Cause Order has been defeated in court, we'll explain what happened and what...

Send us Fan Mail A new week and a new outlook on the state of college sports. While the Michigan Scandal and Private Equity elements of college sports can lend to a gloomy outlook, there are some great things going on in college sports. Fall Championship season continues to deliver as the FCS playoffs and volleyball tournament are into a final four, with volleyball having a pair of upsets, includi...

Send us Fan Mail After a quiet episode about the College Football Playoff, so much has happened. We have not only playoff bluster, but playoff antagonism against the CFP and the ACC from Notre Dame. Do they deserve special treatment? (No, but they are pining for it anyway). The Notre Dame (non) controversy has led many to question where the CFP should go from here. We explore that along with the b...

Send us Fan Mail The Playoff Bracket is out for College Football and people are mad, people are happy, but mostly, people are wondering why the process played out like it did. We recap conference championship Saturday and what the final rankings were and discuss the great debate of the three last teams for the last two at-large bids. How was the committee's process like the time I was given a...

Send us Fan Mail The College Football Playoff Committee is making it up as they go, and that is not the design of their own protocols, which you can view here . The latest rankings continue to perplex, with the key element being the ignoring of a head to head match-up. We look at the rankings, what could happen, and preview conference championship Friday/Saturday. College Basketball has given us w...

Send us Fan Mail A lack of chaos on the field this past holiday weekend has led to a magnification of the problems of bloated conferences and consistency in choosing playoff teams. Just as I feared when I did my big playoff episode in the summer, we have a rudderless and nonsensical selection process and just a few weeks left to see how it plays out. The ACC is in a state of chaos that it made its...

Send us Fan Mail We have an early holiday episode here, so everyone can enjoy Turkey Day,  We breakdown the College Football Playoff rankings, a bunch of seemingly nonsensical movement. We also preview this weekend's games and how they could impact the playoff picture. Additionally, we clarify how the NCAA Women's Tennis Singles champ is also suing the NCAA. The deadline for altering the...

Send us Fan Mail Lots going on for this Monday before Thanksgiving episode. Feast Week as begun in College Basketball, a lot of interesting and intriguing tournaments get off the ground this week. The College Sports Commission wants the schools to sign a pledge saying "please don't sue us". We have seven national championships in college sports handed out so far, we recap the early...

Send us Fan Mail Barely got the episode in before midnight but the Thursday show is up. We take a look at some interesting AD situations, from LSU to Ole Miss, Colorado and Wazzu. What makes a good leader and what can make or break a good leader in college athletics. We check in with Big Ten Enterprises while schools are checking out, or at least hitting "pause". We must discuss the late...

Send us Fan Mail We are scrambling to get our thoughts together after another wild week 12 in College Football. The parameters of the 12-team playoff seem to be shifting by the game, but we try our best to see who has the table set for them. For our FRI: an Iowa assistant gets a flag to help seal the Hawkeyes fate against the Trojans. The committee will have some interesting decisions ahead of tom...