Here for the Jeremiyah Love love 🤝

Andrew Luck on Stanford’s commitment, his unique role and more: Q&A with the Cardinal GM (Gift Article) Luck, who hired Tavita Pritchard as Stanford's coach, is the only GM in the nation who is at the top of the football org chart.

Stanford general manager Andrew Luck is not a typical CFB GM. In addition to recruiting and personnel involvement, he ran a coaching search, he fundraises and participates in practice drills with the team. “I’m averaging 40 interceptions a day,” he joked.

My Q&A with Luck: nyti.ms/48LUnP6

2026 NFL Draft composite rankings: compare 10 top analysts’ big boards We pooled rankings from The Athletic, ESPN, Yahoo and more to build the ultimate 2026 NFL Draft consensus list.

NFL Consensus Big Board is updated and with a new and improved design!

It's a cool interactive with positional rankings and the ability to see multiple analysts' boards at the same time.

Jeremiyah Love, a running back, is your top prospect in the class.

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1000%

I need a cigarette after that match lol

Congrats, Jon!!! I knew you when!!

I want Barcelona and Atlético Madrid to play once a week in perpetuity until I tell them to stop. Most ridiculously fun matchup in soccer for more than a year now.

the Jeep Cherokee commercial with the Big Mouth Billy Bass. I endured enough of that fish for one lifetime when it initially became a thing a couple decades ago.

SPORTS!!!

High Point made the NCAA Tournament last year. Their coach left to be an assistant at Creighton, and their best players transferred to Ole Miss and Baylor.

And yet!

More of us than them…P5s have pulled up the ladder behind them, hoarded the $$$ and want to shove mediocre schools into the tourney diluting what makes March madness special. Every coach should be saying the same thing

One of the best postgame on-court interviews in recent memory.

“High-majors need to play mid-majors during the season. They said we ain’t played nobody—we played somebody now. Nobody would play us. just like nobody would play Miami Ohio. But they gotta play us in this tournament.”

same

honestly I find it more fun this way haha

What's to expect from The Athletic's NWSL coverage ahead of 2026 regular season

The 2026 NWSL season is here!

@tamerra-griffin.bsky.social @melanieanzidei.bsky.social @theolloydhughes.bsky.social @aslipelit.bsky.social @jilliansakovits.bsky.social Lia Griffin and Claire Weltz have put in WORK. Here's what you can expect from @theathletic.com

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can’t find out when they win something of significance because it rarely ever happens 🤷‍♂️

Can’t even be mad about Spurs no more. Shit is so bad it’s comical

Transfer portal confidential: Tampering, roster budgets, January window and more (Gift Article) What surprised staffers the most about how the portal window played out? Is it possible to sign a good class without tampering?

How big of a roster budget does a team need to be competitive in its conference? Is it possible to acquire priority transfers without tampering?

We asked that and more of CFB front office staffers in part 2 of our Transfer Portal Confidential.

Free link to read @theathletic.com: nyti.ms/3MNR6Hw

Not quite put it on but I ran a March Madness bracket pool amongst my friends when I was in high school and one of my teachers participated (and remained part of it in the years after I graduated).

Transfer portal confidential: Best classes, underwhelming teams, favorite QBs and more (Gift Article) Several staffers were not impressed with Florida's work. Almost everyone praised Texas Tech. QB Sam Leavitt received mixed reviews.

Who had the best transfer portal classes? Which teams underwhelmed? What transfer quarterbacks did teams like the best?

We asked more than a dozen CFB front office staffers for their thoughts in @theathletic.com's Transfer Portal Confidential.

Free link to read: nyti.ms/4r4GEcr

NCAA proposes penalties to deter teams from circumventing transfer portal in the spring The proposed legislation calls for a head coach to be suspended for six games if his school adds a non-portal player in the spring.

With no spring transfer portal window, some have predicted a wave of transfer movement with players unenrolling and showing up elsewhere, without using the portal.

The latest NCAA proposal aims to prevent that with major penalties, including head coach suspensions. Details: nyti.ms/3OCs7au

Inside Texas A&M’s roster-building strategy: A conversation with Aggies GM Derek Miller (Gift Article) What have been the keys to A&M's roster retention? How much did the breakthrough 2025 season help in the portal?

The NFL Combine is this week and Texas A&M has 13 players there — a school-record and most of any school this draft cycle.

I caught up with Aggies GM Derek Miller to discuss that, A&M’s roster retention, portal strategy and more.

Gift link @theathletic.com: nyti.ms/46oNGkZ

College football had 34 head coaching changes. Here are 10 lessons from a bizarre carousel (Gift Article) What coaches, agents, athletic directors and search firms are taking away from one of the busiest college football coach carousels ever.

College football had 34 head coaching changes. Here are 10 lessons from a bizarre carousel.

Good analysis here from @chrisvannini.com and @davidubben.bsky.social on the most recent coaching cycle @theathletic.com: www.nytimes.com/athletic/706...

Kentucky and Will Stein made waves with their transfer class, per @skhanjr.bsky.social

🎧📺 Full episode: linktr.ee/bunchformation

🎙 New Bunch Formation

Winners, losers and gossip from the transfer portal with @skhanjr.bsky.social

Indiana isn't backing down, OK State knew the assignment, Kentucky surprised people, Lane closed hard, UCF found a QB + a lot more.

🎧📺 Listen/Watch: linktr.ee/bunchformation

LSU becomes first major target of College Sports Commission investigation

NEWS: The College Sports Commission has opened an investigation into LSU over potential unreported NIL deal(s). The Tigers are the first known program under an inquiry from the new enforcement body.
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SOURCE: Duke QB Darian Mensah and Duke WR Cooper Barkate both have committed to Miami after visiting UM today.

except we haven’t seen video or screenshots or heard audio. Clemson and Dabo may have that — based on how specific he was, it’s a safe bet that they do! — but until we see it or the NCAA (or CSC) confirms such evidence, it is an accusation.

Clemson’s Dabo Swinney accuses Ole Miss of ‘blatant tampering’ with transfer Luke Ferrelli Swinney’s rant was rare in that he openly accused another coach, publicly and by name, of tampering with his players.

In an hourlong address, Clemson coach Dabo Swinney goes scorched earth, accuses Ole Miss and coach Pete Golding of tampering and laments the state of CFB.

Context and details from Swinney's timeline of the Luke Ferrelli saga @theathletic.com: nyti.ms/49XDlgN